This is part two of a three part show about London's Art Deco buildings, accompanied by what I hope is reasonably appropriate music (although not what I would have chosen to take to a desert island). The buildings are shown alphabetically, although that created something of a problem: should I call them by their original names, or should I call them by the name by which they are now known? In the end I settled for their original names, omitting the word "the", but I'm sure mistakes have crept in. Each image in the show is named and its postcode given to enable viewers to locate it easily. Featured buildings: Daily Express Building, Daily Telegraph Building, Daimler Car Hire Garage Herbrand Street, Danson Road Bexley, Derry and Toms, Dorset House, Du Cane Court, East Finchley Station, Fire Brigade Headquarters, Florin Court (this is the Whitehaven Mansions of Hercule Poirot fame), Forest Croft, Gaumont Palace Chelsea (now Habitat), Gillette Building, Greybrook House, Grosvenor Estate, Hartington Court, Hay's Wharf, High Point, Hoover Factory (now Building), Ibex House, Ideal House (now Palladium House), Imperial Airways Building (now National Audit Office), Isokon. For many of the main shots, I used a wide angle lens at or near to the widest angle of 16mm (EFL). Sometimes, I would have preferred something even shorter. I was often forced to tilt the camera, resulting in converging verticals which were subsequently corrected in software. If circumstances allowed me to hold the camera upright, I later had to crop almost half of the lower part of the image. For many of the detail shots of (for example) low reliefs which were often quite high on the walls, I used a telephoto lens and subsequently corrected the inevitable distorted perspective and cropped the image. A professional photographer may have a used a specialist Perspective Control lens with tilt-and-shift features. I tried to remove digitally as much extraneous detail as possible (cars, people, etc.) but it often simply wasn't possible. ProShow Producer Hercule Poirot Whitehaven Mansions Chaterhouse Square Hercule Poirot theme music Pasadena

Comments

1. I envy you!
2. I live in Hartington Court. It's a wonderful building, so glad we were able to buy the freehold and preserve it forever.