It's not been much of a summer here in London this year. One of the reasons I'm really looking forward to my summer holiday away in the end of the month actually. But the changeable weather has given a cloud lover like myself some stunning photo opportunities (like above). And despite the cool-ish weather there were plenty people around today to help me pull my socks up with the colour purple...

Like these girls hanging about waiting for... something.
I love the odd one out. Only dead fish go with the flow, right? :D

Some people come with their own subtitles...

And some people are too cool for school. The low tide makes life by the Thames a real beach.

It might have been the length of the queue to get on the London Eye that shocked her.
It's pretty long on July Saturdays. Trust me. :)

It's better to enjoy the sound installation Volume by the Royal Festival Hall.
The annual fountain is back too, no cliché photos by it today though. ;)

  Instead another cliché - photographers taking photos of other photographers.
Lovely. ;) This is by the graffiti street behind Waterloo station. Stunning art, go see it!

Let's finish with hugs all around today!
Summer + love = London. ;)

I often get asked about what it's like to live in London or why I choose to live here. From this on I would like to answer with this photo. What could be more amazing than coming out of your regular station on your boring sticky Monday commute home and walk to the middle of people dancing tango? That's the best thing about London - it surprises you with the most wonderful things just when you thought it possibly couldn't pull it off any more.

Greetings dear Vox! It's been a while, yes? Maybe because I have been busy/ill/away/letting Project Rainbow Purple go down the drain. Maybe I'm allowed to have a little summer holiday? :) Well, I did have a little break last weekend and went over to gorgeous, gorgeous Bergen in Norway. I took my Holga 35mm camera with me to shoot some proper photos, too, as you can see.

Proper photos of Norwegian Vikings. Well, modern Vikings I suppose. :)

And proper photos of proper Norwegian madams, too. ;)

As well as some proper art photos. Look at this gorgeous double exposure courtesy of lazy/forgetful winding up of film a la yours truly. I love happy photo accidents like this. :)

If you ever have a chance to visit Bergen please please make sure you visit the home of Edvard Grieg, Troldhaugen. His house is not actually the house in the photo on the left, but these two went together in a cute way. The place itself is amazing. Really. Some proof below:

Gosh, what a couple weeks it has been! I lost the control over my computer over some silly trojan business and didn't have a chance to fix it until yesterday by wiping out my whole hard drive and windows. This meant that I'm a bit delayed posting some photos from the past week+ among other things. Also, after announcing this month's colour to be blue, it turns out it's not! After shooting couple weeks of more blue things I realised I should be focusing on all things purple instead. Ah, I refuse to panic in the midst of another blonde moment. It is summer after all. ;)


Last Sunday was a perfect summer's day in fact. I spent it at Spitalfields with my friends Caroline and Jo, shopping, soaking up the sun and having great lunch and later some drinks. I wish every day would be like last Sunday actually. Spitalfields is one of my favourite parts of London and even though it's changed a lot in the past five years or so has remained quite charming. The Sunday market is also great.


Being in that part of London always throws some fashion victims/fashionistas your way, as above. ;) I love his shoes!


One of the "error" blue photos I took a week ago.
One of my fav blue photos actually...


Today I ventured out to Tate Modern. As it is Father's Day in UK, it was surprisingly quiet and I got to enjoy the place without the usual weekend hassle. There is also a great exhibition going on called Street&Studio - Urban History of Photography. Highly recommended (also by this man)!


Part of the exhibition is participation in a way of being able to create your own graffiti and street art outside of Tate Modern. This guy was going at it BIG style. ;)


... and these girls were being all cute about it. :)


The light inside the Turbine Hall is always inspiring. This Lost+Blue pair fell into my hands in one the nice light spots. Nice!


And this guy waited kindly texting by the aubergine coloured wall for me and project rainbow. :D
This is one of my favourite photos from today. It combines so many of my favourite things in one shot.


This was funny thing to come across in my contact sheet from today.
Grass is always greener on the other side, eh? :D

So for the rest of the month I'm going to be concentrating on reading all the instructions more carefully. And focusing on purple! By the way, as you can see I made the photos in this post XL-size, what do you think? Better?

What are last minutes for?! I've just uploaded my last two photos to my orange set for the Project Rainbow. This completes my fifth month doing the project which is quite incredible. Not a word about time flying in this entry though. ;) It's been a while since I've done anything photography-wise. This is for the simple reason that May has just been one busy month! Most of all work has effected my energy and inspiration levels by just being soul destroyingly stressful and busy. Also there has been a little period of bereavement after having to give the 5D back to Marianne. *sigh*

But - I've kicked my photography butt today and managed to sort out my long-neglected portfolio, order some prints of some of my personal favourite photos this year in prints (photobox.co.uk is just the best!) and even went out to finish a roll of Fuji 800Z film that's been sitting in my Holga 35mm for ages. So, finally I have something new to share with you, be it only four photos. I've quickly scanned these today from prints which really takes away from the sharpness and depth of colour from the originals. I really have to redo the scans from negs, but was so excited to have some new stuff so couldn't wait...

I was mostly by the South Bank today.
If you have a look at this in the larger version I hope you see what I saw. ;)


The Hayward Gallery is having this amazing Psycho Buildings exhibition on at the moment. It looks incredible just from the outside, let alone the stories I've heard. Apparently there is a lake at the top terrace where you can go have a little rowing boat out. How cool is that?


You know it's summer in London when the lawn comes out in front of the National Theatre. This year they've pushed their own boat out and made it into this incredible looking outdoor living room. It really is endless fun, especially photo-wise.


This is my favourite photo from today.
What couples do best. I just love catching moments like this.
The 35mm Holga also comes into force in this in a lovely way.
It's a shame the scan really does no justice to the original. :P

Next month is all about the colour blue for me. I'm going to have a bit of an easy ride, because I already have ten photos in the set, so I'm literally half way there. It's a bit obvious maybe from the speed I do certain colours which ones are my favourites... ;) The plan is to do some more film stuff in June, too, so it should be too long before I have something new to show you. Until then!

New month, new colour! It was nice to get over the green themed photos of April. For some reason I found green a bit of an uninspiring colour, but I think I have some nice photos in the series. May means ORANGE, and I had some photos already waiting to be added to that series, so I added those on Flickr, along with some blue and purple photos in their own series as well while I was at it. Although the most exciting thing about starting a new theme yesterday was the fact that I got to borrow my friend Marianne's 5D! Seriously, I want to marry that camera.

I popped my 28-75mm lens on it yesterday as I went over to Tate Britain to see the amazing Peter Doig exhibition. Look at this wide angle goodness. Mmmm, wide angle! Actually, I went a bit wide angle mad yesterday, just because I could. :D


It's so great to be able to fit in everything in the frame, if you want.


Traffic rules of London. I got some nice photos for my run series yesterday, too.
It's been a while since people have been dashing around in my presence.
Or maybe it's only a summer thing, dashing?


I was standing again in this spot on the South Bank mesmerized by the power of wide angle. :D It's a nice spot actually for a great London background as well as for people going by. The afternoon was shadowed by rain showers, as you can see. I thought this was a nice green to orange transitional photo.


The South Bank book market is a great place to shelter from the showers.
Luckily she was also wearing orange. :)


This was my favourite photo from the day. I really, really am in love with this camera. Marianne might have to kill me for me to be able to give it back to her. :D I love the man in yellow in the background btw, it really makes this photo for me. ;)

London is the greatest city to get lost in. I got off at Moorgate last night and just started walking around in the City of London. It was a lovely night and in couple of hours I'd ended up via Fenchurch Street and Aldgate to the Tower of London by accident. Scrambling together more green photos I saw some great things...

There are a lot of nice details around you anywhere you go, just keep your eyes open.


One of my favourite photos from yesterday.
His expression is so lovely and infectious.


It seemed to be some national mobile phone loving day yesterday...


At least some had time to have a smoke before playing with their mobile. ;)


I hadn't been to the Tower of London for years. It's funny how things just look and feel familiar before you realise that you have been there before. Just after this photo Graham Norton turned that corner behind that family with his two dogs. I was a little bit star struck, but he was very cool about it (and on his mobile!). :)


Yes, The Tower Bridge. Very touristy. Very London.
But something I liked, especially in B&W.