On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:21:12 +0100, David Cantrell
wrote:

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:45:42AM +0000, d wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:00:03 +0100
David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 10:51:54AM +0000, wrote:
and frankly there are enough bloody planes in the skys over london as it is.
We don't need any more.
And the reasoning behind these statements is what?
Look out the window right now. Can you see that smeary haze where there should
be blue sky?

No. I see a coupla contrails, and some very light cloud.

Apart from looking vile

No. That's not vile.

For the record, this is a wide-angle view (an 18mm equivalent in 35mm
terms) upstream from Southwark Bridge this morning:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recline...5548/lightbox/
I think the contrails look quite pretty against the brilliant blue
sky.

This was the downstream view (the contrails are less visible as the
shot is into the sun):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recline...ream/lightbox/
I think that shot's interesting as it includes several generations of
London's tallest office buildings: Tower 42 (completed in 1980),
Canary Wharf (completed in 1991) and the Shard (this year), as well as
the curiously shaped new Cheesegrater and Walkie-Talkie buildings
(likely to be completed in 2014).

In contrast to London's relatively clean air, this is a pic I took a
month ago of Beijing's tallest office building:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recline...57633508953848

And this is what they have to do to try and keep the once-pristine
Bird's Nest stadium looking somewhat presentable:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recline...57633508953848
http://www.flickr.com/photos/recline...3848/lightbox/