March 2022 - The Underground (And again!)

And symmetry is almost there in this picture – also taken at Canary Wharf. Here, I am in one of the shopping centres on the estate, fairly close to both the Underground and DLR stations. At this point there is a large rotunda with escalators going between the floors – I am standing in the bottom centre of that rotunda and looking up.

One of the things I have said quite often here, is the value in looking around you, to see your surroundings and to think what photographs you could make from them. In this case, I suspect that tens of thousands of people walk through here each day, and many do so several times, but very few will notice their environment. I remember many days looking through the food shops at this level when I was working there.

The thing about symmetry is that it’s got to be, well, symmetric. And this photo isn’t – not quite. Which makes it slightly uneasy looking as if there’s something not quite right with it (which is true!). But the patterns and colours in the picture are very satisfying and they give (to me at any rate) a sense of a futuristic spaceship or building filled with beautiful people who know what they’re doing. Oh well – you can’t get it right every time.