This was taken on Monday in the partly opened Crossrail Station building for Canary Wharf at the roof garden. It was opened in May. After crossing to the Station on the new space age bridge shown in my previous upload you can go up the escalator to the roof and this magnificent garden or more like a park. Like the bridge the station and garden is designed by Norman Fosters the design pushing London Architects. The Crossrail project is Europe’s biggest construction project, expected to cost £15 billion to build a new Underground line from East to West and due to open in 2018, looking forward to it!

Access to the station garden is free and unlike the Sky Garden I visited earlier this year no prebooking is required. Just turn up like to any park and there were surprisingly few people there which may not last. Unlike in some areas of Canary Wharf the Security Guard walking towards me was not in the slightest way bothered about my taking pictures, I think it is probably expected.

The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 10mm.. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. Outputted in Photomatix using contrast optimiser for a natural look.

My first edit was to bring more light into the foreground than I could get with Photomatix by adding the plus 2 EV image as a new layer, masking it off and then adding it back over parts of the foreground with a white brush at 40% opacity. More detail was brought in using Topaz Adjust Clarity and noise reduced using Topaz DeNoise.