What a fantastic photo but for the sake of purity I would get rid of those hideous monitor cameras.

Wow! It is the foreboding looking sky that does it. A photo with a message it certainly is!

The lighting is excellent, and I like what you've done with post-processing here. Very nice work!

Lovely shot, nice composition and the color of the clouds is superb.

The original photo is nice, but I love the version with the tweaked out colors. It gives it an oddly surreal look, with the modern vehical and almost archival looking colors. This actually looks like a frame of a movie or something. Nice work!

I love the color of the sky in this shot, it looks so ominous.

Great shot, definitally prefer the coulouring in this shot.

I've not seen the film but I've heard mix reviews about it.

now that is just a beauty...
looks so crisp

I like the way you've used colours, or really tones on B&W, to make the Parliament Buildings pop. However, I find the crispness makes it look a bit unreal. I assume that's an artifact of using a digital camera?

Great framing -- the security camera looking down on Big Ben is telling!

kinda ironic that the car is a Ford. lol
nice shot though, with the camera and everything. We could think you took it after you saw the movie !

i just saw v for vendetta last night too! at the imax, it was cool. great photo.

I knew I recognised this shot - thought maybe id seen it somewhere else, but nope, it was you. I really like what you did with the colours, gives it a very different feel.

i agree with you, i enjoyed the comic book way more than the movie, which was a bit cheesy.

and as for the picture, the parliament building looks absolutely incredible! kudos!

Hi,
What process do you do to get the efect of washed away colors?

This shot is definately much more interesting than the previous version. Much more ominous and suiting to the subject overall.

"for the sake of purity I would get rid of those hideous monitor cameras."

A lot of people in Britain feel the same way. The premise of V for Vendetta seems to be becoming more real with every action of the people within that people. It's very sad indeed.

This is possibly the best image i've ever seen of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben!! Brilliant.

Im sure London, like any other city, is full of security cameras. Isn't the stat something like you are filmed on a few hundred different cameras each day in a city? It's something hugely ridiculous. But it is a brilliant picture, I do love london.

Nice shot as always, I love the colours here. Only cricit would be a bit too much unsharp mask for my taste, see the halos on the left edge of the tower for instance. Anyhow, i'm still a big fan :-)

Great play with the colors! Awesome shot.

I love the saturation in this one. It's very effective. Lovely. Great sky!

SICK! You have the Eye.

I really like the cameras contrasting the old historic building. It shows how far we have come.

The shape and colors of the clouds and the light on the buildings and street below remind me of one of those scenes in movies where the camera shows the movement of the clouds in fast forward to show time moving forward.

Good shot,I'll also give that L lens some credit, great lens if I must say so

"Im sure London, like any other city, is full of security cameras."

Actually, I'm pretty sure London has more security cameras than any other city in the world.

Excellent shot, by the way--it could almost be a movie poster for V for Vendetta

It's a stunning picture. I love the clouds and the building color brings uniformity to it. You even snuck a plane in there!

Saw V for Vendetta and found it enjoyable.

The moment I was this, I thought "He must have seen V for Vendetta".
Heh.

I work round the corner from here and it really looks this grey.

i was just there today with a friend who's visiting from canada! the clouds today looked exactly like the clouds in your shot. very nice.

Love what you've done with the colours here, it's a great scene

Is that a plane in the sky?

this photo should be called Big Ben and Big Brother. That camera is right smack next to the clock tower. i thought it was punny.

I like the dark, deep tones in this foto. Great scene and polarized affect.

"What a fantastic photo but for the sake of purity I would get rid of those hideous monitor cameras."

But that's what makes this photo so great. Probably one of the best photos of London I've seen.

Brilliant snapshot, very Banksy styley!

Before I scrolled down to the comment the first thing this made me think of was V For Vendetta. Excellent photo and the muted colours are really in keeping with the comic book.