This is a view of the front of the gallery looking from Trafalgar Square.

Photos shot with Ricoh GR III on a day with sun on the face of the building and dark rain clouds behind.

Now that Tamara and I live in London it has become a real bonus to be able to drop in to the gallery without thinking about train times and the journey back to Cambridge.

Kengo Kuma and Associates have won the competition to design a new wing of the National Gallery as part of Project Domani, a £750 million campaign to take the National Gallery into the next century.

I don’t know whether it has been decided what the new wing will house, but the plan for the National Gallery as a whole is to extend its historic collection beyond 1900,

Together with the National Portrait Gallery they will be one of the only places in the world where visitors can view the entire history of painting in the Western tradition.

The New Wing

The site of what is currently St Vincents House on Orange Street is the site of the proposed new Wing to the gallery.

So if you imagine looking from the photos, over and past the dome of the gallery and on to the streets behind, that is where the new wing will be – as in this artist’s impression.

This is the hall of the Tate Modern in London. According to the EXIF data attached to the RAW image, I shot the photo on 22 June 2014.

It must have been towards the end of the day because the entrance is on the west side of the building and the shadows are long and the sun must be low in the sky.

And here is this couple, frozen in time.

A friend and I passed Holland Park Mews as we were walking from the tube station, heading to Holland Park and the Kyoto Gardens.

As you may or may not know, mews houses were originally stables for the benefit of the main house. Then they were converted into cottages and now the ones in this mews are desirable because they are in Kensington.

As stables they were built in the second half of the 1800s, and I guess they were not all converted into dwellings at the same time.

I wonder what the properties are like inside?

The 67 properties are Grade II listed buildings, so the exteriors cannot be changed. But inside some of them might house 21st century modern kitchens and bathrooms.

Who knows?

When the wisteria blooms in the next couple of weeks, it should be an even prettier place to photograph.