Theme Day - Green

The first day of each month is theme day in the City Daily Photo (CDP) community. July we are showing our images using the colour green.


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June Theme Day - Under Construction

A bit of street humour for this month's theme day.
City Daily Photographers ( CDP ) pictures today will show their interpretation of 'under construction'.
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April Theme Day - Edges

Walking close to the edge they became shadows of their former being.

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February Theme Day - Fountains

One sunny afternoon passing Trafalgar Square I caught the sun reflecting through the water of fountain creating a lovely rainbow.

Fountains are this month's theme at CDP
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January Theme Day - Best of 2010

Happy new year to you all.
First day of a new year 1.1.11 and and a look back to bring you the best of 2010.
A hard choice, should it the most popular, what I liked, or something quintessentially English?

I opted for the latter.

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December Theme Day - Time

Time:
Today is post 1000 for aglimpseoflondon.
As the first of the month it is also theme day for CDP bloggers this month is time. So I did a little research to see what happened in London 1000 years ago.

What I found was that a bloke who became known as St Edmund the Martyr who was king of East Anglia, becoming a saint shortly after his death in 869 he died in battle fighting the heathens. As was the case in these days bodies of the dead were frequently moved to keep them safe or in one piece. Well it appears that in the year 1010 his body was carried through creplegate (later spelled cripplegate) on route to St Gregory's Church.

Cripplegate was one of the gates in London wall, which I discovered stood on the part of London Wall Rd where it intersects Wood Rd. This now leads into the Barbican Estate.

Just inside the Barbican at this point stands St Giles Church. You were wondering how I was going to weave my photo into this story weren't you. St Giles church was originally built in 1090, named after the patron saint of cripples and beggars. They all hung out around this part of the city, hence the name of the this gate in the wall.
Much of this area was heavily bombed in the WWII. Amazingly St Giles survived.

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November Theme Day - Public Transport

Bye.

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October Theme Day - Graffiti

London has plenty of street art to select for this month's theme. Books, websites, blogs and tours are all dedicated to this form of art.

City Daily photographers around the world will have lots more graffiti to show you.
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Make sure you pop by here again tomorrow as I will have a great competition and prize for you.

September Theme Day - Markets

Covent garden is one of the most famous markets in the world. It is known a fruit and vege market has been here since 1630. However archaeological digs in recent years points to activity here around AD 410.

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August Theme Day - Bright Colours

London's colourful gay pride fits the bill for this month's theme of bright colours.

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Theme Day - Reflections

Regents Canal below the Eurostar train lines.

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Theme Day - Funny Signs

First of the month means CDP theme day.
This month - funny signs
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May Theme Day - Statues

First of the month brings us the dailyphoto community's theme day, with this month being statues.
London has so many to choose from. I have chosen to show you one that is here temporarily.

This incredibly life like statue is one of the three statues created by sculpture Christian Jankowski of people performing statues. This one is Salvador Dali's Anthropomorphic Cabinet Woman.
So... is this art imitating life, imitating art or is it life imitating art, imitating life or..what do you think?

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Theme Day - Red

First of the month is CDP theme day. This month is red.

I stumbled upon this tour guide with her lovely red brolly conveniently by a red telephone box.

Take time to visit the other variations on red.

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Theme Day - The Tenin Technique

Today is a special theme day to mark the 5th anniversary of Paris Daily Photo. Eric began the concept of a daily photo of the city you live in. Five years on there are now more than 1100 of us.

To mark this occasion we are all posting a picture taken from the ground or at an odd angle. A technique Eric often uses.

I chose these cupcakes from the Alice in Wonderland store of Selfridges department store. A cake for Eric to say congratulations and a cake for me as it's my birthday.
What a grand day.

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Theme Day - Passageway

The first of a new month already! The theme for March is passageways. This image shows not only the obvious passageway along the path between the trees but also the small boy with the ball suggests the beginning of his passage through life. His smallness compared to the huge trees.
Is that arty farty enough for you?

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