When driving through Sidcup, I have several times noticed a floodlit building, and thought that it might make an interesting subject for a photograph. Upon investigation, I discovered that it was the Bexley Register Office. Yes, I did say Register Office and not Registry Office! I don't know the reason why it is so named.
I have had a couple of attempts at photographing this building, but was just slightly too late on my first attempt, and I got no colour in the sky at all. On my second attempt, I arrived just before the floodlights were switched on, and it gave me time to find some vantage points for my tripod, and the results were much more to my liking.
Here are the two photographs I found the most pleasing. These were taken with my Centon 18-28mm super wide angle zoom lens mounted on my Pentax MZ-M camera, using Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Colour 100ASA film. The picture on the right needed tweaking in the computer as I got in close and the building was leaning back on the slide.
Here's one I took a little earlier from a little further back. The building doesn't have an unacceptable lean, and there's some interesting cloud movement, but on the whole, I prefer the deep indigo sky I got on my later pictures.
