{"id":16388,"date":"2015-07-30T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=16388"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:20:43","slug":"london-at-dusk-cranes-flags-big-ben-and-the-telecom-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/london-at-dusk-cranes-flags-big-ben-and-the-telecom-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"London at dusk: cranes, flags, Big Ben and the Telecom Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"London<\/p>\n

This photo of central London taken from my flat in Brixton had such a nice response after I posted it on Facebook that I thought I’d share it here too.<\/p>\n

The handheld photo was taken last night with my Olympus OM-D camera and a 300mm lens (600mm equiv) at ISO 1600 and shows off several London landmarks.<\/p>\n

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\"London<\/p>\n

In this zoomed in view, you can see the Houses of Parliament to the left and the illuminated clock tower to the right (as you can see, the time is 8.55pm).<\/p>\n

Everyone calls this tower Big Ben, but it is in fact the Elizabeth Tower, with Big Ben\u00a0being\u00a0the heaviest of the five bells it houses. [—<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This photo of central London taken from my flat in Brixton had such a nice response after I posted it on Facebook that I thought I’d share it here too. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[1180,1183,1181,10,352,1182],"class_list":["post-16388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-big-ben","tag-dusk","tag-house-of-parliament","tag-london","tag-parliament","tag-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-dusk-brixton.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20366,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16388\/revisions\/20366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}