Illuminated staircases on London's south bank.

This one's from March last year, taken whilst walking along the south bank of the River Thames one evening. I can't remember exactly where this was, but I do remember waiting for someone to walk past one of the doorways to give some scale and motion to the otherwise graphic simplicity of the scene. I've converted to black and white to add to the simplicity.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 1600, f/5.6, 1/60s, 28mm, hand held.

Blue doors on an old textile mill

This is Shaw Lodge Mill on Boys Lane, in the bottom of the valley in central Halifax. I took the photo in April last year. I really liked the lines of the metal fire escape and the way the blue doors stood out from the stonework. To enhance this feature, when processing the raw file in Lightroom, I desaturated everything except the doors.

Camera/lens settings: ISO 100, f/10, 1/100s, 24mm, hand held.