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Emerging from the walkway underneath Blackfriars Bridge you come across this scene. The cross of St Pauls seemingly reaching up to the crosses of the scaffolding. I just like it.
I did a crop as there was a big lump of something to the left which would have been too big to clone out and I cut out a bit of the sky to make the crosses nearer for composition's sake, but I'm not sure if I should have taken out so much. You will judge. I couldn't stand anywhere else and even here I could've done with being another 3 inches taller to frame it how I wanted it. But you have to work with what you've got. 
Converted to B/w using NIK. For me this image is all about shapes rather than details.
V2 is the original for comparison.
Many thanks for dropping by.
Chris 
And a big thank you to Bricurtis for his UA for my previous image Browing.
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon Powershot G11 |
| Lens: | 6.1-30.5 mm |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 27 Aug 2012 - 11:59 AM |
| Focal Length: | 30.5mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/4.5 |
| Aperture: | f/5.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/2000sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 400 |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| White Balance: | As Shot |
| Title: | Meeting Half Way |
| Username: | 
SlowSong |
| Uploaded: | 28 Aug 2012 - 8:12 AM |
| Tags: | Black & white, Digitally manipulated, General, Landscape / travel, London, Photo journalism, Specialist / abstract |
| Votes: | 35 |
 | Variant - Before and After |
Comments
Mono transforms this, brings the planes together.
Moira
Both crop and monochrome are well-judged, even essential I suggest. The image is very graphic; emphasising the lines with the b&w helps to draw the attention away from the insipid summer sky.
A striking and well-observed shot, one of those that has to be taken - I suppose you could call it rescued!
Regards
Bill
Has a bit of an old postcard look in V1 - it works for me, Chris, so that's my choice! 
Trev
Well seen and nice work to get it looking so good in V1.
much better as a mono, excellent composition ( or opposition?)
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