I have been to London about four times over the last three years ostensibly to visit family, but I can't help acting like a tourist whenever we are there.
On this visit, our original intention had been to stay for four days however, Icelandic ash clouds loomed on the horizon so we were forced to stay an extra eight days. We took the opportunity to visit all the tourist spots including Hampton Court, Windsor, the National Gallery and two of my favourites, Westminster Cathedral and The Naval College at Greenwich.
This image, made in the cloisters at Westminster, has all the elements I love about the Cathedral. Even during the middle of the day, light passes through the Cathedral as though it were glass instead of stone. The magpie in the foreground is one of two that I have seen on all of my visits to the Cathedral. The profiled face in the right side of the image is that of another tourist walking around the cloister to get to the coffee shop where I am standing. In the Cathedral itself you can see ghostly apparitions wandering the transept.
In this image, I tried to convey a sense of the timelessness of Westminster and in some way, conjure up the ghosts that must occupy its grounds.
