This is part three 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. I was unsure about including the Michelin Building but left it in because (1) many commentators regard it as being transitional between Nouveau and Deco and (2) I like it. Featured buildings: Landsdowne Court, Michelin Building, Nestle Factory Hayes, Oxo Tower, Pantheon Oxford Street (now Marks & Spencer Oxford Street), Pullman Court, Pyrene Building (now Carillion / Westlink House), Regency Cafe, RIBA Building, Russell Court, St Olaf House, Saville House, Senate House, Shell Mex House, Shirley Library, 50 Sloane Street, Spitfire Works (Wallis Building Penfold Street), Streatham Ice Arena / Rink, Transport House Dean Bradley Street, Trinity Court, Unilever House, Victoria Coach Station, Walthamstow Town Hall, Wandsworth Town Hall, Warner Theatre Leicester Square, F W Woolworth Brixton, Yardley's Stratford. 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. Peekaboo Peek-a-boo New Vaudeville Band A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square ProShow Producer

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