Tag Archives: gmt

27th February 2021 12:00

OK so this really is the last one. Is that a faint tip of a tip on the very bottom of Adelaide House just above the filmstrip of images? Well maybe. It occured to me, it should be possible to make a stop-motion animation of all the various Shard tip shadows over the winter. HowContinue reading “27th February 2021 12:00”

26th February 2021 12:00

Maybe I can eke out one more screengrab? Certainly there’s not a lot of point trying to get the actual shot of the Shard, as the double-pronged tip is just visible here on the front of the building, far above the ground. The building in question, since we’re looking at it, is Adelaide House. WhenContinue reading “26th February 2021 12:00”

24th February 2021 12:00

Having tracked the shadow on the View from the Shard and consulted the plot too, I thought I knew pretty much exactly where this was going to be. But despite the second half of February basically being a northward move with a bare quarter-degree swerve to the west, I still went to the wrong sideContinue reading “24th February 2021 12:00”

13th February 2021 12:00

Finally! It’d been a long cold winter watching the shadow sweep across tall buildings, it at last it appeared again from ground level, just where I expected after the shot on 11th. It was a more fortuitous capture than that dry prediction implies though. I’d arranged to meet a friend for outdoor lockdown exercise (aContinue reading “13th February 2021 12:00”

11th February 2021 12:00

There then followed a couple of cloudy weeks of solid rain. By the time the shadow was visible again it had shifted a lot, and, and, looked like it was visible from the road. The tip is falling on the western pavement of King William Street there, which opened the tantalising possibility of seeing itContinue reading “11th February 2021 12:00”

25th January 2021 12:00

You’d not guess from this view that the pressure was still below average and there was still snow on the ground in sheltered spots. Curious. The shadow doesn’t move much in four days, tracking here over the northwestern-heading part of King William Street. No chance of seeing this alignment from street level. Given the greatContinue reading “25th January 2021 12:00”

23rd January 2021 12:00

Well you can just about make this out. Rare to get two consecutive sunny middays in London in winter, and it hadn’t moved far, but hey, they all count. Unlike the superficially similar 7th/9th pair, this and the day before were under very different skies. Low pressure hoovered its way across the country and thoseContinue reading “23rd January 2021 12:00”