Trafalgar Square

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On Wednesday I posted some images of my Sunday afternoon walk down The Mall in London from Buckingham Palace to Admiralty Arch.  

 Just beyond Admiralty Arch is Trafalgar Square, a huge open area in front of the National Gallery and dominated by the memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson who in 1805 led the Royal Navy to victory to a larger French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.  Nelson was mortally wounded and heard that victory was secured before he died.

 Nearly 210 years later Horatio Nelson is a still revered as a national hero who saved England from invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops. 


Walking around in the winter sunshine just before sunset, the buildings surrounding Trafalgar Square were bathed in a warm light while the Square itself was mainly in shadow.  The shot at the top of the page is one of the four bronze lions that are at the base Nelson's Column with the tower of St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in the background.



The Fourth Plinth
The Fourth Plinth Programme is the most talked about contemporary art prize in the UK. Funded by the Mayor of London and supported by Arts Council England, the programme invites world class artists to make astonishing new works for the centre of the capital city.

 The new Fourth Plinth commission, Hahn/Cock by Katharina Fritsch was unveiled on 25 July 2013 in London’s Trafalgar Square.  Commissioned by the Mayor as part of the Fourth Plinth programme, Hahn/Cock is a 4.72m high rendition of a domestic farmyard cockerel saturated in intense ultramarine blue.



CLICK HERE for more information on the Fourth Plinth.


All images taken on the Fujifilm X-T1 + Fujinon XF56mm f1.2 lens

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