Whilst the Shard was being built I was living in Bristol. But I visited London a number of times to go to an office just along from London Bridge. Each time I visited I somehow failed to look up and see what was being constructed above me.
Then a few years ago I moved back to London and properly looked at the Shard for the first time. It towers above anything else around it and yet I felt dissapointed because it didn't reach right up into the clouds. I guess I was expecting it to be a bit more Ballard.
I now see the Shard everday as I travel into the city for work. I have seen it in all weathers and all lights and have slowly started to full in love with it.
I took this photograph from a train window, I liked how the reflected lights resemble the tracks of the train and how they intercept the top of the tower and fill the sky.
I suspect it will appear in this blog often.