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| Around the world people celebrated with fireworks, kisses, blessings, gatherings, cheers, watching the sunrise and plunges into icy bodies of water to welcome in a new year. Here's a look back at how some of them marked the transition. -- Lloyd Young ( 41 photos total)  Fireworks explode in the sky over Bucharest, Romania, at midnight, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012, during street celebrations of the new year. Large crowds gathered downtown Romania's capital taking advantage of the dry weather to attend the celebrations. (Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press)  Steve Macwithey kisses Lauren Macwithey in Times Square during a celebration to mark the start of the new year in New York, Jan. 1, 2012. (Kena Betancur/Reuters) #  The historic riflemen corps fire gun salutes to welcome the new year on Jan. 1, 2012 in Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest, southern Germany. The traditional shooting has taken place for the first time in the year 1633. (Patrick Seeger/AFP/Getty Images) #  A long time exposure shows Filipino youths creating "2012" to bring in the New Year with sparklers at a public park in Manila. Filipinos welcomed in the New Year with fireworks and celebrations. (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images) #  Family members raise their hands to receive the first sunrays of 2012 in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. ( Israel Leal/Associated Press) #  Malaysians react as they watch fireworks explode during New Year celebrations at Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (Lai Seng Sin/Associated Press) #  Patty Pique, of Jackson, Tenn., comes to Peach Drop 2012 to celebrate their New Year's Eve at Underground Atlanta, Dec. 31, 2011, in Atlanta. (Hyosub Shin/Associated Press/Atlanta Journal-Constitution) #  Wishes for 2012 written on confetti that will be released in New York's Times Square during the New Year celebration are on display at the Times Square visitor center, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011 in New York. The Times Square Alliance conducted it's airworthiness test Thursday in preparation for the release of one ton of confetti by hand from various buildings in Times Square at midnight on New YearÌs Eve. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press) #  Revelers cheer behind police barricades in Times Square in anticipation of midnight on New Year's Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in New York. Some revelers, wearing party hats and "2012" glasses, began camping out Saturday morning, as workers readied bags stuffed with hundreds of balloons and technicians put colored filters on klieg lights. (John Minchillo/Associated Press) #  Workman begin the task of cleaning up after thousands of revelers gathered in New York's Times Square to celebrate the ball drop at the annual New Years Eve celebration on Dec. 31, 2011 in New York City. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images) #  Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on Jan. 1, 2012 in London, England. Thousands of people lined the banks of the River Thames in central London to see in the New Year with a spectacular fireworks display. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) #  Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the New Year Jan. 1, 2012. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters) #  Fireworks light the sky above the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin shortly after midnight, greeting the New Year, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. Hundred thousands of people celebrated the beginning of the New Year 2012 in Germany's capital. (Michael Sohn/Associated Press) #  People gather to celebrate the new year 2012 at the Temple of Heaven, the city's historic landmark in Beijing on Jan. 1, 2012. Spectacular fireworks and crowded parties will ring in the New Year for people around the world, as billions mark the end of 2011 with noisy celebrations from Sydney to Stockholm. (Jin/Agence/AFP/Getty Images) #  Confetti drops as a Filipino blows his paper horn as they welcome the New Year at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines on Sunday Jan. 1, 2012. More than 200 people have been injured by illegal firecrackers and celebratory gunfire in the Philippines despite a government campaign against reckless New Year revelries, officials recently said. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press) #  A Pakistani barber gives a 2012 hair cut on a man to celebrate New Year at a barber shop in Rawalpindi, on Dec. 31, 2011. (Strdel/AFP/Getty Images) #  A friend pours Jon Knebel, of Iowa City, Iowa, a glass of champagne at Airliner in Iowa City on Jan. 1, 2011. ( David Scrivner/Associated Pres/The Gazette) #  People dance during New Year's celebrations in Madrid, Spain, Jan. 1, 2012. (Andres Kudacki/Associated Press) #  A couple stands in a doorway at sunrise wearing fancy dress following New Year celebrations, in Pamplona northern Spain, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (Alvaro Barrientos/Associated Press) #  People gather on Red Square to celebrate the New Year Day in Moscow, January 1, 2012. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters) #  Vikings lead the torchlight procession as it makes its way along Princess Street for the start of the New Year celebrations Dec. 30, 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Thousands of people joined in the torchlight procession, followed by the burning of a Viking long ship, to mark the start of Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) #  Artists perform in the streets of Johannesburg on Dec. 31, 2011 during the New Year's carnival. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images) #  People make offerings to Yemanja, the Goddess of the Sea of the Afro-American religion Umbanda, on Dec. 31, 2011 at a Paranoa Lake beach in Brasi¨-lia. Hundreds of worshippers are gathering at this place of the Brazilian capital to make their offerings and pray for the new year. (Pedro Ladeira/AFP/Getty Images) #  Young Sri Lankan boys play with firecrackers on the eve of the New Year, as the sun sets in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (Eranga Jayawardena/Associated Press) #  Pakistani civil rights activists shout slogans in a peace rally to mark the New Year in Lahore on Jan. 1, 2012. Three people were killed and at least 60 wounded by stray bullets in the port city of Karachi today as Pakistanis celebrated the new year by firing their guns into the air, police said. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images) #  Sri Lankan Buddhist devotee offers prayers at a Kelaniya Temple in Kelaniya on Jan. 1, 2012. Many Sri Lankans marked the beginning of the New Year with religious ceremonies. ( Ishara S.Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images) #  Marco Fois of Italy dives into Rome's river Tiber as part of traditional New Year celebrations on Jan. 1, 2011. Divers jump from the Cavour bridge, continuing an annual tradition which dates back to 1946. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images) #  Hardy Dutch swimmers brave the icy North Sea on Jan. 1, 2012 in Scheveningen, Netherlands. A record number of 10,000 people took the plunge in this year's traditional New Year's dip. The high turnout was attributed to the mild weather with a sea temperature of 8 degrees compared to 4 degrees last year. (Jasper Juinen/Getty Images) #  A man takes part in the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year's Day swim at Coney Island on Jan. 1, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club claims to be the oldest winter bathing organization in the U.S. and attracts hundreds to the beach for the annual swim in the Atlantic Ocean. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images) #  Chinese winter swimmers perform a dragon dance on a frozen lake to celebrate the New Year in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (Associated Press) #  Revelers run into English Bay during the annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, British Columbia on Jan. 1, 2012. (Ben Nelms/Reuters) #  A couple kiss during the New Year's Day Looney Dook swim at South Queensferry in Scotland Jan. 1, 2012. (David Moir/Reuters) #  NATO troops from the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) celebrate New Year's Eve in Kabul Dec. 31, 2011. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters) #  A shaman performs a ritual for good luck in 2012 as he prays in front of an image of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez in Lima, Peru, Thursday Dec. 29, 2011. Fernandez was diagnosed with treatable thyroid cancer on Tuesday, and will undergo surgery on Jan. 4. (Karel Navarro/Associated Press) #  Children of migrant workers lie on the snow to form the number "2012" while celebrating the coming new year in front of a snow sculpture in Harbin, in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. (Associated Press) #  A man lights an Old Man effigy which symbolizes burning the past and getting ready to start a happy New Year without bad memories of the past in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (Rafiq Maqbool/Associated Press) #  The New Year sunrise lights up an area devastated by the March 2011 tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture, in this photo taken by Kyodo on Jan 1, 2012. The tsunami reached three-fourths of the height of the tower seen in the center. (Kyodo/Reuters) #  A young girl from the Gurung community attired in festive clothing participates in a parade to mark Tamu Loshar, or New Year of the Gurung community, in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. (Niranjan Shrestha/Associated Press) #  Confetti pours from volunteers on the second floor of the Creative Discovery falls onto the several hundred children crowded together to celebrated the turning of a new year during the New Year's at Noon celebration at the museum, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, in Chattanooga Tenn. ( Jenna Walker/Associated Press/Chattanooga Times Free Press) #  In a Sunday, Jan. 1, 2011 photo, Jolene Anthony (left) holds her daughter, Kylee, while her husband, John Anthony, holds their son, John, at Rapid City Regional Hospital in Rapid City, S.D.. Baby John was the first baby of the new year at the hospital while his sister was the last baby of 2011. (Ryan Soderlin/Associated Press/Rapid City Journal) #  A New Year's hat is seen among other debris in Times Square after 2012 New Year's Eve celebrations in New York, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (Tina Fineberg/Associated Press) # | | |
| What does a sudden evacuation look like? After everyone is gone, what happens to the places they've abandoned? National Geographic Magazine sent Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder to the nuclear exclusion zone around Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant to find out. Evacuated shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami led to a nuclear radiation crisis, the area has been largely untouched, with food rotting on store shelves and children's backpacks waiting in classrooms. The area may face the same fate as the town of Pripyat, Ukraine after the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago. This isn't the first time Guttenfelder has gotten a rare glimpse of a place few see, as The Big Picture featured his photographs of North Korea in an earlier post. Collected here are Guttenfelder's haunting images just released of a place abandoned, and of people dealing with the loss. -- Lane Turner ( 39 photos total)  In this April 7, 2011 photo, local police wearing white suits to protect them from radiation, search for bodies along a river inside Odaka, Japan. Weeks after authorities had searched for victims and started recovery in other tsunami-hit regions, cleanup crews hadn't yet been dispatched around the crippled reactors because of high radiation levels. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine)  In this June 8, 2011 photo, residents wearing protective suits gather in a gym in Hirono, Japan for a briefing before being escorted to their homes inside the exclusion zone to retrieve a few small items. The government allowed strictly controlled visits by residents and each person had to be tightly screened for radioactive contamination upon return. (AP Photo/AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 24, 2011 photo, residents wearing protective suits inside a bus in Hirono, Japan wait to be escorted to their homes inside the exclusion zone for the first time since the March 11 tsunami to retrieve a few small personal items. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 8, 2011 photo, employees of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) bow deeply as a bus passes by carrying people originally living in towns inside the exclusion zone near the damaged nuclear power plant which is operated by TEPCO. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 26, 2011 photo, Junko Shimizu packs her husband's suit to take out of their evacuated home in Namie, Japan during a government organized visit inside the exclusion zone for families to collect a few of their belongings. The Shimizu family chose to take with them important documents, their best clothing, their daughter's wedding kimono, and family photos, among other important small items. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this July 16, 2011 photo, a noodle restaurant sits abandoned along the main highway near Futaba, Japan, less than six miles from the damaged nuclear power plant. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this July 26, 2011 photo, rice and tempura mildews in bowls left on the tables of a restaurant in Namie, Japan, that was hastily abandoned after the earthquake struck on March 11. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this July 13, 2011 photo, cans of beer lie dislodged inside a flood-damaged vending machine in an abandoned neighborhood in Naraha, Japan inside the nuclear exclusion zone. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this June 7, 2011 photo, residents of a nursing home in Itate, Japan rest in a community room. Itate is located northwest, and just outside of the official nuclear exclusion zone but registers some of the highest levels of radiation in the prefecture and was largely abandoned over the summer. Employees of the nursing home say that some residents of the nursing home elected to stay behind because they are old enough that they do not fear the long-term effects of exposure to radiation. Employees of the facility had mostly moved away but commute to work and rotate their shifts to limit their own exposure. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 10, 2011 photo, the sun rises in the abandoned town of Namie, Japan, near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this June 5, 2011 photo, an animal rights activist wearing a white suit to protect him from radiation, tries to guide a car through an overgrown mountain road near Naraha, Japan as he and his colleagues bypass police barricades to enter the nuclear exclusion zone so they can feed and rescue abandoned animals. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 5, 2011 photo, two stray pet dogs fight in the deserted streets of Okuma, Japan. In the early days of the crisis, roaming farm animals and pets were everywhere inside the no-go zone. But by midsummer, some animals had been rescued and a number of others had perished of starvation and disease. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 5, 2011 photo, Japanese animal rights activists Leo Hoshi (right) and Kei Asanuma grill meat to attract stray dogs as they try to rescue pets that evacuees from the nuclear exclusion zone left behind in the contaminated town of Okuma, Japan just three kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 18, 2011 photo, a farmer's pig rests in a puddle on main street near the train station in central Namie, Japan less then six miles from the crippled nuclear reactor. Farmers across the area had to hastily leave their homes and were unable to evacuate livestock, or return to the irradiated zone to care for them. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 18, 2011 photo, a hog naps after eating a meal inside an abandoned feed store and wandering the deserted streets of radiation-contaminated Namie, Japan. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 8, 2011 photo, Keigo Sakamoto holds two of his dogs in the front yard of his house. Sakamoto, a Japanese egg farmer, lives in Naraha on the 12-mile boundary line of the exclusion zone around the damaged nuclear power station. He is allowed to stay in his home but must bypass the police barricades and lost his livelihood when the neighbors and nearby towns were evacuated. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 9, 2011 photo, a family member's portrait, dislodged and shattered by the March 11 earthquake, hangs on the wall of an abandoned farmhouse in Naraha, Japan within the exclusion zone. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this July 22, 2011 photo, a woman shops for groceries despite the shelves being mostly empty during the final days of a gradual process of evacuation of the town of Itate, Japan. Itate is northwest, and just outside of the official nuclear exclusion zone, but registers some of the highest levels of radiation in the prefecture and was largely abandoned over the summer. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 19, 2011 photo, a stray pet cat rests inside a dryer at an abandoned coin laundry in central Namie, Japan less than six miles from the crippled nuclear reactor. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 8, 2011 photo, a member of the Namie, Japan school board wears a protective suit while measuring radiation levels in a field in his community inside the nuclear exclusion zone. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 26, 2011 photo, a member of the Namie, Japan school board checks the hands of a colleague as they measure radiation levels in a baseball and soccer field in their community inside the nuclear exclusion zone. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 9, 2011 photo, an evacuee lies down in her makeshift temporary home on the floor of the Big Palette convention center in Koriyama, Japan. Tens of thousands of people fled their homes surrounding the damaged nuclear power plant. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 9, 2011 photo, evacuee Nobuko Sanpei, 74, eats rice in her cardboard-box home on a hallway floor in a convention center in Koriyama, Japan. Sanpei, who has since moved to a small apartment, farmed rice with her husband in Tomioka, Japan less than six miles from the power station. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 9, 2011 photo, 69-year-old and tattooed Toyoo Ide bathes with fellow evacuees in a traditional Japanese-style bath set up in a tent by Japan's Self-Defense Forces at an evacuation center in Koriyama, Japan. "There's no water or electricity now, but if there were, I'd go back, radioactivity or not. I'd go back today. I can't live in a stranger's town," said Ide who was a lifelong employee of the nuclear power plant. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 26, 2011 photo, vines grow across the highway near the town of Tomioka, Japan inside the nuclear exclusion zone. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 18, 2011 photo, packaged items lie on the floor of a convenience store in Futaba, Japan near the nuclear power plant. The items were left untouched since the earthquake shook the region on March 11. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 22, 2011 photo, Fuyono Kitayama, 83, cries after her last calf is loaded into a truck as she and her husband prepare to be evacuated from Itate, Japan. Itate is northwest, and just outside of the official nuclear exclusion zone but registers some of the highest levels of radiation in the prefecture and was largely abandoned over the summer. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 24, 2011 photo, ships that washed inland with the tsunami sit along a road inside the nuclear contaminated exclusion zone in Namie, Japan. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  This July 8, 2011 photo shows a waterlogged family photo album left behind in the town of Namie, Japan on Fukushima's tsunami-ravaged coast. In the pictures the children are dressed in fine kimonos worn during a traditional celebration when children turn three, five, and seven. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 8, 2011 photo, empty chairs sit around a theater inside a building next to the mayor's office where residents of Namie, Japan spent the first night after the tsunami struck. Months after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor disaster sent the town of Namie's residents fleeing, few have been allowed to return for brief visits. Public and private buildings have been left largely untouched since the disaster struck. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this July 26, 2011 photo, meal debris and personal effects lie on the floor of the gymnasium at Karino Elementary School, which was used as an evacuation shelter shortly after the nuclear crisis erupted, in the town of Namie, Japan. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  This July 8, 2011 photo shows the damaged gymnasium floor which sank after tsunami waves swept across the neighborhood at a school near the coast in Namie, Japan. The signs on the school stage were placed before the March 11 quake and tsunami in preparation for a graduation ceremony. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 10, 2011 photo, a water mark cuts across the backs of theater seats at a planetarium in Namie, Japan after tsunami waves swept across parts of the town. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this July 26, 2011 photo, oranges, which were left behind when the town of Namie, Japan was evacuated, rot on the shelves and floor of the town's main supermarket. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic) #  In this June 18, 2011 photo, a mud-caked television remote control device sits on a table above a mud-covered and cracked floor of an abandoned home in Odaka, Japan in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 19, 2011 photo, children's desks, backpacks, and school supplies lie abandoned inside an earthquake-rattled primary school classroom in Namie, Japan. Months have gone by since the students fled following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and it is uncertain when or if the children will be able to return or reclaim their possessions. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this June 21, 2011 photo, police with glowing wands and vests and wearing protective face masks guard a road leading into the nuclear exclusion zone near the city of Minami-Soma, Japan. The sign behind them reads "Keep Out" in Japanese. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  In this July 10, 2011 photo, traffic lights blink on the deserted main street in the radiation-contaminated and abandoned town of Namie, Japan. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) #  This July 25, 2011 photo shows the radiation-contaminated and abandoned town of Namie, Japan at dawn. (AP Photographer David Guttenfelder on assignment for National Geographic Magazine) # | | |
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| Do not adjust your monitor. You're looking at 3D photographs by Jason Hawkes of sites around the UK. You'll need some 3D glasses, and fortunately, they're easy to make yourself. Jason shares some tips for shooting from a helicopter, as well as making images in 3D: "I normally fly in a Eurocopter AS355 which is a five seater machine. I sit in the back wearing a harness and we usually take off the doors before flight. I shoot on Nikon D3X and D3S using lenses from 14mm up to 300mm. (3D) Rigs on helicopters are a nightmare, especially as I might use three different types of helicopters in a week. In the end I found with a little trial and error its just as easy to shoot with a single camera as long as you get the timings spot on. Once you have the images you just use some standard Anaglyph software to integrate the shots and you end up with these stereoscopic images. When viewed with chromatically opposite lenses you perceive the images as having three dimensions." -- Lane Turner ( 18 photos total)  The Angel of the North sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley , in Gateshead, England. (Jason Hawkes)  Stonehenge monument in the English county of Wiltshire. (Jason Hawkes) #  The garden at Sissinghurst Castle in the Weald of Kent, near Cranbrook, Goudhurst and Tenterdan. (Jason Hawkes) #  Stanway House near Stanway, Gloucestershire. (Jason Hawkes) #  Historic site Burrow Mump overlooking Southlake Moor in Burrowbridge in Taunton Deane, Somerset. (Jason Hawkes) #  Christ Church at the University of Oxford. (Jason Hawkes) #  The London Eye on the river Thames across from the Houses of Parliament. (Jason Hawkes) #  Nunney Castle in Nunney, Somerset dates to the 14th century. (Jason Hawkes) #  No Man's Land Fort off the coast of the Isle of Wight. (Jason Hawkes) #  Wells Cathedral, Church of England, in Wells, Somerset. (Jason Hawkes) #  The 2012 Olympic Stadium in London. (Jason Hawkes) #  Happisburgh Lighthouse in Happisburgh on the North Norfolk coast is the only independently operated lighthouse in Great Britain. (Jason Hawkes) #  The chalk headland of Beachy Head near Eastbourne in East Sussex. (Jason Hawkes) #  Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. (Jason Hawkes) #  Horseshoe Bay on the Isle of Wight. (Jason Hawkes) #  Hampton Court Palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. (Jason Hawkes) #  The Shard London Bridge tower in London. (Jason Hawkes) #  Lowther Castle of Westmorland, now part of Cumbria. (Jason Hawkes) # | | |
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