I’m celebrating six years of blogging with a look at the Tate Modern – a fabulous museum housed in the former Southbank Power Station – that I visited on my recent trip to England.
The old turbine hall is now the dramatic entrance of the art gallery.
The themes of space and light
Are also present in the art galleries themselves. (They used to be the boiler rooms of the power station).
Even the back of the turbine hall
Is full of light and enormous space.
(That round ball shape on the right is actually a small child.)
As the gallery was closing,
The sun created its own artwork
Of light and shadows and beauty.
For more artistic shots, please visit: Our World Tuesday.
Many old structures should be put to a similar use rather than tearing them down. The light in this station is incredible!
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I can’t find your blog anymore… Help!
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and I can´t find wehre to comment 😦
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Very nicely captured, Lady Fi!
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Dear Lady Fi
Thanks a lot for this great post. We always visit the Tate Modern when we are in London. It’s a MUST GO we think.
All the best from the North Norfolk coast
the Fab Four of Cley
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Amazing fall of lights into the gallery! Superb shots Ladyfi
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happy blogiversary to you!
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These are some amazing images! I love the interior experience of light and shadows mixing with people and space. The viewer is drawn into both depth of field and the vertical and horizontal axis of the picture: very multi-dimensional. Finally, I zoomed in on “the small ball” and was delighted to see a baby! What a surprise?! & indeed, a delight.
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Indeed! Some galleries are well worth visiting just to see the space!
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Very athmospheric with the lights and shadows!
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Great views!
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I love your shots of the Tate Modern and love the light and shadows you have captured!
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love the light. great images
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Dear LadyFi, way back in the summer of 1977, I got to visit England and, of course, going to the Tate was part of the wonder. But I don’t remember that building and so the Tate must have moved since that time. The architecture itself is true art isn’t it? Thank you for these evocative photographs. Peace.
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You must have been at the original Tate, now called Tate Britain. The Tate Modern is much newer.
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this is on my list for my (hopefully this spring) visit to London
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What an impressive building and loved your photos. Congratulations on your blogging anniversary.
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I was here last Friday! Mainly resting after a climb to the top of St Pauls!! Take care x
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Happy anniversary!! I love the images you shared today, especially the last one.
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The Tate Gallery is one of truly brilliant, well done Fi.
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Great shots of the fantastic museum.
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If ONLY people would appreciate SPACE and LIGHT EVERY DAY! An awe inspiring place…thanks for taking me there!…:)JP
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WOW! Many congratulations. Great photos.
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Wow. Thank you for the insiders view – and for the six years of beauty you have brought us.
Here’s to the next six. And the ones after that as well.
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Congratulations on 6 years, Fi!
I am so glad to have met you here.
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very cool…i like how the natural elements are used to accentuate the theme….some cool shots…
and congrats on 6 years…that is awesome….
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I love this museum, although it’s been awhile since I’ve been there. Nice to see it again! 🙂
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Yes, I love that beautiful and spectacular entrance to the museum, and your photos are gorgeous, I really like the last one with the spectacular play of light and shadow!
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I enjoyed this post featuring light and shadows! I would love to see this in person.
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Wonderful captures of the light, so artistic 🙂
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Simply incredible, Fiona. What wonderful usage of this space! The light is amazing.
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Happy Anniversary on your blog.. The museum looks neat, an interesting building.. have a happy week!
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Thank you for so well sharing the inner space of this famous landmark I have longed to enter. Have a most enjoyable journey.
ALOHA from Honolulu
ComfortSpiral
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Some wonderful shots, great place to celebrate your blog anniversary
Congrats on the 6 years, I am on my 8th year, time flies ‘when one is having fun’
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Happy 6 year blogiversary and beautiful museum♡♡♡ BTW, I LOVEd to read the poster introduced us which depicting the differences between Swedish and English. I’ve never hear of Swedish, I wish I coud p;)
Sending you Lots of Love and Hugs to from Japan, xoxo Miyako*
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I have sweet memories of the Tate Modern and the Millennial Bridge leading up to it when I visited in 2007, the year I presented a paper at Oxford University. Thanks for the photos that elicit such recollections.
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Congratulations for completing six years of blogging Lady Fi! Wishing you many more!
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Beautiful … i love the light effect.
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Absolutely stunning photos. I haven’t been to the Tate for ages. Want to go again now.
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The large turbine room is one of the incredible features of the gallery. You chose just the right time to capture the light. Your photos are exquisite.
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Those are really fabulous shots, so much contrast and glowing light!
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Wonderful shots of the museum. I really like that first shot.
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Wonderful light effects!
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I heard about this. But never visited. Next time I am in London… I must go and check this out. 🙂
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Great shots……..thanks for sharing!
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This looks very much/reminds me of an art gallery in Beacon NY — The DIA that was once an old brick factory and has great space & unique lighting! Lovely! Congrats on 6 years!!
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What a spectacular space!!
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What an amazing museum. And happy blogging anniversary!! 🙂
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So powerful Fiona. You have taken the interior design and brought it to life with light and shadow.
Congrats on the 6 years!!
Val x
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What an amazing and fantastic place!
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That’s gorgeous…the light streaming…
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Lovely lines and shadows. So stark, yet expansive.
I’ve been blogging for 10 years!
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cool shadows 🙂
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Wow fantastic architecture, the capture of light is stunning.
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I love the Tate!
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Gratulation zum Jubiläum – und zu den fantastischen Bildern !
Weiterhin viel Freude am Bloggen,
Luis
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These are absolutely gorgeous shots! Very fitting, given the subject… 🙂
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What a wonderful use for the old building!!! I love the beach images in your next post, too!!!
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Wow! What an amazing place, made even more so by your exquisite photos. You always show me places I’ll never see in ways I could never see them. Beautiful!
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What a wonderful use of space! Happy 6th blog anniversary–so glad to have found you!
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What glorious photos of a spectacular space! Love it!
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Absolutely beautiful photography ~ composition, light, lines ~ magnificent! ~
artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)
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Great, artistic photos! Tropikvärmen är tillbaka…
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Great post for the 6th blog anniversary!
Have a nice day!
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Great series and a wonderful light.
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Wow – what an imaginative and creative use of old premises. Wonderful captures showing off light and shadows beautifully. Hope your trip to the UK was a joy.
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What an amazing place – the light in the last photo is spectacular. Good luck with your Swedish wildfire, I’ve been reading about it and can understand what the people are going through.
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Thank you. The fire is the worst one in modern history and is still out of control with people being evacuated.
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I am not familiar with that museum, but the open spaces must be breath-taking in-person. Your photos certainly stir curiosity.
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It really is an amazing use of space! Beautiful.
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Fantastic interior shots.. great shadows and love the composition.
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Dazzling interior for a museum – The sheer scale of the place is amazing – your artful photos really capture and do justice to its majestic size. Thanks for sharing your visit with us.
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Congratulations on your blogging anniversary! 🙂
That is quite an enormous structure, and the lighting is impressive!
Lindy
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Wow! This is one amazing gallery!
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such wonderful glimpses of your time there.
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That’s a seemingly big space! It can house a lot of treasures!
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Even if the round ball is a small child, thats still a big space!
Our rescuer service is the RACV – the V being for “Victoria”.
Cheers – Stewart M – Melbourne
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Amazing shots of an aazing building. Great work !!
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It’s such a long time I haven’t been in the Tate Gallery, must be a big change !
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This is amazing! Why the light filtering through the glass panes would make the artwork glow with their own beauty. I’d love to go around inside personally.
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I love it too! These are stunning images.
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You have a wonderful eye for an interesting photograph and I have loved my trip round the Tate Modern with you. I hope to visit myself one day.
Wren x
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A fine post of the image of this amazing place. That small child was such a surprise. The size of this place is impressive.
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you certainly captured the sense of ‘space’ beautifully… I would love this place
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Impressive building and photos, beautiful light and point of view.
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I really like this series. A great vision on the Tate Modern
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Quite an impressive space! Congrats on your blogging anniversary, it’s a blessing to have you share all you do!
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Space is art. It is power. It is peace if we let it. Thanks for sharing these.
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Marvelous shots!!
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Wonderful photos Ladyfi!! I love all the silhouettes and shapes and shadows… so well done. Congratulations on 6 years of blogging 🙂
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The lighting in art in itself! WOW. x
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I’d heard of the Tate Modern but didn’t realize it’s in an old power station. Your last picture reminds me of a few well-known ones showing shafts of light inside New York’s old Pennsylvania Station, which was unfortunately torn down in the 1960s.
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Faboulous fotos
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I love this building. Your last shot is outstanding!
Sorry I’ve not been commenting lately but a tendinitis (shoulder + elbow) is forcing me to stay away from the computer as much as possible – repeated movements of the arm is all I have to avoid…
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Oh gosh – sorry to hear about your tendinitis! Hope it gets better soon.
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Lovely play of light and shadows. Beautifully captured!
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What a cool buiilding! Happy blog-iversary!!
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Hi, this is a beautiful spacious place! I adore this last photo! a great atmosphere and almost a fiction film !!! well done
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Yay! My part of the world. I love how you played with shadows and light in these photos!
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