This ultra high resolution panoramic image of London, Tower Bridge Panorama with New Moon is from my favourite viewpoint, from Bermondsey east of Tower Bridge.

Using an app I have “Photographer’s Ephemeris”, I noticed that the new moon on this day, 6th June 2016, was rising just behind the Tower Bridge when in this location. It was so thin that it was really difficult to see, in fact at the start I didn’t see it at all but I began shooting regardless.

I used my powerful 300mm lens for this panorama, and I love that with the magnification, the moon appears clearly in this view! This scene looking back towards the centre over the River Thames I find spectacular, especially on this clear day when the sky was mesmeric. This tightly cropped panorama includes on the left Butler’s Wharf and Shad Thames with the BT Tower, and at right the tall Walkie Talkie skyscraper in The City with a slice of St Katherine’s Dock and the shorefront apartments of Wapping.

Sadly this view is no more because of the construction of a huge platform on the left of the image, for Tideway’s massive replacement project of London’s super sewer running beneath the Thames. This now means that this view is now obscured, alas.