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Published: 2004-08-25 02:57:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 4067; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 736
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This is my 300th deviation and also my first deviation from this summer's trip.I am not sure what it is about this picture, but I fell in love when i first saw it on the LCD. It's the atmosphere. I guess it really feels like London to me. (which I loved by the way)
The red telephone booth is definitely my favourite London symbol. It's so abstract and definitely has a story to it. The story changing depending on your mood, of course
What's yours?
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I love this pic, red phone boxes are sooo cool
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What a fantastic exposure! It really gives a special air to this picture. I also love the read booths, they're scattered all over London, and each has a unique story.
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It's the fact that the council were too lazy to take those barriers back in on the right hand-side
But no, I'm British and it still kinda gives me goosebumps when I see travellers take pictures like this then talk about them. The phonebox is one of those long endearing symbols as us as a nation.
I like it
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very cool ..., same here i love how the car is in motion and yet everything else it still. great shot.
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Something to do with spies.
We British are very good at having spies.
(Good photo, btw)
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it reminds me of my trip to London. Great photo!
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cool. i drive past there twice a week on my way to and from uni. i love the river thames. the southbank has to be my favourite part of london. great work on capturing the essence of what makes london so wonderful.
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The sky is way to blown out. You should try shoting in raw, might help.
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we see photography very differently, it's pretty cool to watch.
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i would prefer I nice blue sky that's all
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a blue sky would add an extra color to the photo making it much less efective to me
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I'll aggree to disagree. I'm not going to change you.
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oooh. i see you were down in westminster. this definitely is a london symbol.
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the red makes falls in love to anyone that watch this momment
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yes the atmosphere is wonderful. So warm and cozy. Welcoming.
thanks for sharin!
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I just love this image. Those phone booths are really quite striking I think. I have a serious obsession with London. I spent four months there for school a few years ago and have been SERIOUSLY craving it lately!!!! How long were you there? What was your favorite part? Tell me all about your London experience so I can relive mine...
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Great job.
We used to have telephone boxes like that down here in New Zealand till around 1990 (way back when we were still a lot more of a mini-England than we are now) so every time I see one in pictures now, it's like time-warping.
...back when Coke was only 50c a can and having $2 was like being a millionaire.
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Your vision has such maturity, you seem to be in possession of a old vibrant soul. It belies your years.
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Wonderful, i like very much the motion. marvellous
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Wow! I love this picture... reminds me of my love for this city...
ItΒ΄s an old dream I have: being to and living in London.
IΒ΄ve been there for two times, but only for a few days. Now somehow I must find a way to live there for a couple of years, so that I can really know and experience it.
The lightpost you show reminds me of some in front of the Houses of the Parliament, which have some funny fish in its base, as if they were holding the light!
Enjoy your trip!
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This is kinda weird for me... I'm not sure about all those white areas, but I think it was on purpose knowing u're are a very good photographer...
It all looks so shaky and a bit sad in my oppinion, and that's actually my vision of London, a grey sad city with it's phone booths creating a bit of color every here and there...
(sorry about my english)
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very cool capture, Like the movement of the car a lot !
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nice pic.... *sighs* reminds me of how much i miss england.
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i like how the car is moving so quickly by the booth - which has a stillness and a solidity to it. the color is nice too~
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I love the red phone booths, it's one of my favorite things here in London
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my story:
as she's talking to him on the phone in the red phone booth he walks up from the subway coming up the stairs at the left out of the ground and into her site - she drops the phone and they 
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Good ol' red telephone box.........nothing can illustrate London any better! Where else in the smoke did you go?
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Beautiful composition. The red is striking and the movement adds to the "busy-ness" of the piece.
Impressive as always my friend.
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Interesting shot. It's quite bizzare in the sense that a traditional phone box does not nothing for me, but is perhaps more of interest to non-UK deviants. I suppose it's much the same as pictures of the Eiffel tower for French/non-French people.
That said, the over-exposure works well.
(On a side note, it's interesting how radically different this is to my latest deviation (which oddly contains another UK phone booth) - Don't pick it up . Hmm... perhaps I need to take some happy pills. 
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Yeah, I wish we had those here in the States, along with the mail boxes.
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vroom vroom.
i can't help but think of Bill & Ted and their adventures when I look at this... nevermind that their telephone booth looked nothing like that... but still. that telephone booth looks ready to take off.
.maggie
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Great use of long exposure to get this one.
My symbol of London is the Big Ben.
I'll be waiting for that one from you
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Neat, I love the tail end of the car and the overexposure. Take me to london with you next time
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Looks familiar. Westminster by any chance? I love this shot. Very nicely captured.
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An exceptional shot. Very cool.
The exposure in this shot gives it this look of quality that you would see in British video productions and documentaries.
And that quick shot of movements give it this stylish depth. That's cool.
It's nice. It's bright. It's London, on a beautiful day. Very cool.
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I like the car movement and the photo is really balanced. 
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Great shot, i like the movement. The overexposure creates an effect like your looking at it through a wet window.
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Great shot love the long exposure of the car racing past.
oh and it is going to be a great loss when all the red telephone boxes are repalced.
mmm, I think i have used the box along side the Thames
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A nice shot. I thought you'd call it "London Calling".
(Cheesy comment, I know...but it works for me)
Having never been to London, I can't say.
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London always makes me think of busy pubs. I like the softer blurry feel on this, with the car and the general softer subjects. Does feel a little bit cluttered/ jumbled, with the car, railings and traffic lights all cascading on top of each other. In turns this either makes me feel that it could be improved or that it just represents the jumbled mess of London more clearly. There aren't a lot of open spaces there so this seems appropriate, though it suffers from a 'clean design' standpoint.
Solid travel shot though.
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that's where i go to change into my 
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Nice classic use of over exposure.
Definitely a great London capture...mood is laidback, or else that car would be over-speeding
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aw this is just nice. i like how the light makes the phone booth look like it's glowing
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