Taking his schoolboy hobby into adulthood Benington took up platinotype printing and pictorial landscape work.
[4] Benington's arresting image entitled 'Among the Housetops'[5] exhibited in 1893 shows the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral rising above London's buildings like a benign spirit.
Crow states in his thesis [Abstract p. i], "[Benington] was a photographer of great distinction and marked individuality fully worthy of a major reappraisal.
"[7] Benington continued to use the landscape as his subject, for example, another view of St. Paul's taken in 1897 appeared in the 16 June 1908 edition of 'Amateur Photographer'.
The image is of a busy Fleet Street looking east, the Cathedral bathed in light in contrast to the benighted buildings in the foreground.
[13] Images attributed to Benington are in the collection of mainly architectural photographs in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art.