Coming very soon to our urbanroofgardens website will be a section for you all to get involved with.
We live in big cities but its madness! We suffer cramped living conditions, packed commuting, noise, pollution, crime, expensive housing, so claustrophobic, so why do we do it? Of course a roof garden would help but my guess is that it is for those little defining moments of perfection, emotion, vulnerability and drama which are sometimes captured digitally on film to share at a later date with loved ones or friends. A city helps cultivate such events by its very size, pace & excitement.
However, your challenge is now for you to email into us your very best urban pictures from your city any ware in the world – New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, Chicago, Montreal, Kuala Lumpa etc. We will feature your pictures and your captions. We will also run a competition with prizes for the photographs that get the most votes from our urbanroofgardens.com loyal and growing band of urban dwellers!
Below are some shots I took in London with my Cannon D60 digital SLR camera fitted with a 15-30mm wide angled Sigma lens. Also a 100 -300mm telescopic Cannon lens for those prying shots. As you can see each one tells its own bizarre, voyeuristic or rather theatrical story!
OK, so let’s see you do better! Email them to me at;
john@urbanroofgardens.com and head it Urban Picture Gallery Competition, or even call us on tel: +44(0)20 8566 4500
Have Fun
Pictures Below;
David Blaine suspended high up in a Perspex box with no food for 44 days, not even McDonalds.
Commercial Road E1 major London warehouse fire, my camera got singed doing the close ups
A birdseye view of the Thames, London
Spider Man (it could have been a lady!)
Xmas in my Stepney loft apartment furnished by those nice people at IKEA, its so cheap it shouldn’t be allowed, good design should be expensive – like ours!
Mardi Gras procession going up Piccadilly Road to Hyde Park
Myself in an artistic pose – Linley, Cecil Beaten move aside!
Mayor Ken Livingstone’s Headquarters roof terrace ‘looks like a rocket, OK someone light the fuse – lets do congestion charging on the moon?’
Mark Ellie Dance Foundation, colorful English rose ballerina dancing at The Tabernacle Notting Hill
Freddy, my pet Weimaraner exercising on Wimbledon Common
Mark Ellie Dance Foundation Dancers (www.markelie-dancefoundation.co.uk)
by John Rice – urbanroofgardens.com