This is a Sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s installed for in September outside the Gherkin building in the City of London. For me this is an ideal combination of 2 interests in bicycles and architecture. I came across it by accident while walking in the City for Open House weekend on 20th September. It is part of Sculpture in the City, a yearly public exhibition of contemporary art situated in and around London’s Square Mile during the summer. The Sculpture is called Forever and is based on the Forever Bicycle mass produced in China in the last century. It has been displayed before in other cities around the World. It is made up of 700 bicycles. Not sure how long it will be on display but according to pictures on Flickr it was still there yesterday so worth a visit if you are in the area.

The picture was taken handheld with a Sony A700 with a Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 10mm. I took 3 pictures for HDR but this was not needed in the end. I processed in Camera Raw. More detail was brought in using Topaz Clarity and noise reduced using Topaz DeNoise. Finally a clarity effect using Unsharp mask and settings of amount 26 and radius 26. This has the effect of bringing in more punch and contrast.