The Tower of London remembers

Mr MC and I finally managed to get to visit this amazing art installation, Blood Swept Lands & Seas of Red, at the Tower of London: it marks one hundred years since the first full day of Britain's involvement in the First World War. Created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, with setting by stage designer Tom Piper, 888,246 ceramic poppies have progressively filled the Tower's moat over the summer. Each poppy represents a British military fatality during the war.

It truly is the most astonishing - and sobering- sight. We aim to visit again at sunset one evening, when the Last Post is played daily and names are read from the Roll of Honour.

So hard to choose one picture, even harder to take a picture which really captures the magnitude , but I've gone for the shot which has both part of the Tower and the Shard which have a thousand years of history between the building of one and the other.