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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. ...

A quick walk to Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly netted some more images for the MacLean Photographic London gallery. First stop was Trafalgar Square where I stopped to get some shots of the tourists enjoying one of London's most famous landmarks.  However it was the fountains and the statues that drew my photographic eye and with the Fuji X100 resting on the wall of the pool I took this long exposure shot. Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 0.7s  @ f16 - ISO200 Next stop was Piccadilly Circus and the colourful lights of the bill boards and the hoards of tourists surround the statue of Eros.  Again looking for something a bit different my eye was drawn to the London Underground signs that were brightly lit as the evening started to draw in.  I was going to do this shot totally in black and white but, like the image I took near St Paul's Cathedral last week, the red, white and blue colours deserved to be highlighted, so I left them in and just turned the rest of t...