UK - London - Nine Elms - American Embassy 01_mono sq crop_DSC4915

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A more abstract mono crop of my previous upload.

Pretty much exactly a year after it officially opened, albeit without President Trump, I made the trip out to Nine Elms to photograph the new American Embassy.

Perhaps not too unsurprisingly I hadn't been there long when I was approached by three machine gun toting British Police who questioned my motives at length. I showed them the photos I'd taken and they were quite complimentary and then once they'd kept me talking for approx twenty minutes, presumably long enough to run a security check on me, they let me go. I'm pretty sure I was then trailed by an undercover policeman for about the following half an hour as I wandered back along the river into the middle of the City.

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From Wikipedia : "On 23 February 2010, the U.S. government announced that a team led by the firm of KieranTimberlake had won the competition to design the new embassy building and surrounding green spaces. The winning design resembles a crystalline cube, with a semi-circular pond on one side (called a "moat" by The Times) and surrounded by extensive public green spaces and the Embassy Gardens housing development.

Ground was broken on 13 November 2013, and the building opened to the public on 13 December 2017. US President Donald Trump had been expected to visit in February 2018 to undertake the official opening of the new embassy, but in January 2018 announced he would not make the trip. Trump publicly criticized the cost of the new embassy and its location, as well as the apparent price received for the sale of the lease of the building in Grosvenor Square, blaming the administration of his predecessor, Barack Obama, for making what he referred to as a "bad deal". However, the decision to move the embassy was made before the Obama administration.

On 7 June 2020, thousands of protesters marched on the embassy as part of a worldwide anti-racism demonstration following the Killing of George Floyd."

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Taken in: UK / England / Wandsworth / Nine Elms (show map)

Taken on: December 11, 2018

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Camera: Nikon D7200, f/5.6, 1/1250 sec, 200mm (=300mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7200
Lens:	80.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1250)
Focal Length:	200mm (35mm equivalent: 300mm)
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Cloudy
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 21.2 (Windows)
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