Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: London

I took this as we were arriving into Paddington, and reflections off the safety glass or not, I still like it. I have no idea about the numbers of the trains this time, of course.

Here's the second edit to Picture 2. I basically used the same technique as on Picture 1 to get a better edit, bumping up the black level on the despeckle tool in Gimp. I like this shot of St. Paul's, too, and it was shot on the same night as Picture 1, right after I more or less stumbled upon it while wandering London at night.

Having practiced more with the despeckle tool in Gimp, I decided to edit this horrible scan yet again to see if I could make it less bad. Luckily, I managed to get some semi-decent results. I hope you like how it looks now. :-) Designed by Sir Christopher Wren to replace the original St. Paul's Cathedral destroyed in the Great London Fire of 1666, although that earlier St. Paul's, built in 1087-1314, had actually been the fourth cathedral to sit on this site and some historians believe that the site has Roman Pagan origins. There was a church built here at least as early as 604 AD, supposedly on an ancient Roman See. In any case, as a photo, this is one of my all-time favorites, and I hope you like it too.

This was my train to Cardiff, on the left. It's obviously a rebuilt Intercity 125, but I don't remember if this was one of the reengined ones.

Here's the second shot of St. Paul's, edited in Preview and Gimp.

This is one of my favorite all-time night shots, and it really annoys me that Ritz gave me such a horrible scan. Now that I have a slide scanner of my own, I'd really like to redo it, but the slide is in storage so this edit will have to do. I at least think that it's way better than the previous, relatively uncorrected version.