56 posts tagged “street photography”
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 love the odd one out. Only dead fish go with the flow, right? :D
It's pretty long on July Saturdays. Trust me. :)
The annual fountain is back too, no cliché photos by it today though. ;)
Lovely. ;) This is by the graffiti street behind Waterloo station. Stunning art, go see it!
Summer + love = London. ;)
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. ;)
One of my fav blue photos actually...
This is one of my favourite photos from today. It combines so many of my favourite things in one shot.
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...
If you have a look at this in the larger version I hope you see what I saw. ;)
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!
Today is a Bank Holiday Monday in England and I have this whole week off from work. Suddenly as I start my holiday the summer magically starts, too. I can't believe it! It was such a lovely day out today and me and my new boyfriend called Canon 5D (don't tell Marianne!) went out for a wonderful fun filled date.
We started off in one of my favourite places in London. I wanted to show my new boo all the places that make me and London click. There was the usual amount of entertainment going on as you can see. We had such a laugh watching this man's show, as did the other people.
What I love about the 5D is that our relationship is less confusing than this man has with his little cutie by the looks of it. ;)
I am still in love with the wide angle opportunities, but I did tone it down a bit today. There is such thing as too much of a good thing... But we get on like house on fire. It's such a shame he has to go home soon...
From Covent Garden we went across to China Town and to my favourite shop in London.
This couple made us smile. Their friend was late meeting them by the gate by the looks it.
From China Town to Piccadilly Circus and a nice coffee around the corner.
There were so many people out enjoying the beautiful weather.
Sun seems to bring the best mood out of everyone.
I seem to be in smoker central at the moment...
This is dedicated to my dear friend René and his quit smoking campaign! :D
We strolled through Green Park, which is even more green than last month...
... and full of beautiful people reading.
We ended the day at Trafalgar Square, like so many people.
It really was a wonderful London day out today.
And we caught a lot of orange things, too.
Next thing I'll be doing is helping my friend Caroline move and after I've recovered from that I'm off to Finland for a few days to celebrate my birthday a bit prematurely with my family and friends. I hope you're well and that the summer is catching up with you too wherever you are. ;)
This couple made us smile. Their friend was late meeting them by the gate by the looks it.
There were so many people out enjoying the beautiful weather.
Sun seems to bring the best mood out of everyone.
This is dedicated to my dear friend René and his quit smoking campaign! :D
Next thing I'll be doing is helping my friend Caroline move and after I've recovered from that I'm off to Finland for a few days to celebrate my birthday a bit prematurely with my family and friends. I hope you're well and that the summer is catching up with you too wherever you are. ;)
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.
It's been a while since people have been dashing around in my presence.
Or maybe it's only a summer thing, dashing?
Luckily she was also wearing orange. :)
I popped out for a drink with the girls last night after work and had managed to bring my camera with me for all photo opportunities presenting. It was a lovely warm spring evening and wandering around the affluent areas of Mayfair and Haymarker to Piccadilly was lovely.
People were eating out, enjoying the weather and on-the-brink-of-summer London.
I just loved the faces of these people, especially the waitress. :)
There was a lot of window shoppers around. I was drawn to the glow here.
And a lot of glamorous people around, too. :)
By the National Theatre the beautiful purple lights pulled me out of the bus prematurily just to catch the audience having a break from whatever performance they had come to see. The smoke from the balcony was a lovely bonus to have caught here.
Actually it was a bit miserable when I first got out,
but in true British style I wasn't the only one trying to defeat the weather.
Sheltering away in front of the Ritz gave me some nice, dry, photo moments, too.
I really love how you can see the rain in this, especially hitting the ground.
By the time I got in a nice warm café to enjoy an afternoon coffee, and like these Dutch boys the people watching, the rain stopped and sun came out. I decided to take a little detour by the side streets and guess what, I ended up at Trafalgar Square.
I think with the South Bank this place is a bit of a photography safety zone for me! :D I haven't really recovered from my couple weeks break from street photography yet, so maybe starting in "easy" places is not such a bad idea.
Being in safe places doesn't stop me thinking in new concepts though.
This time I was trying to see things in more of a panorama way.
New points of view are always useful in trying to shake things up a bit.
Talk about another comfort zone: couples! ;)
I was interested in what was going on behind them in comparison to her facial expressions.
And these dots of red are lovely in this one I think.
And yes, more couples. Groups of couples to be exact.
Just loved the levels and positions of people in this one.
Couples to the left, trios to the right, please.
Apart from the park photos I got some other green things for my collection, too.
A great bonus was catching that family lost in the background. ;)
And this lady in front of the toilets trying to find her way.
Nice levels of action in this one, too I think.
This was just plain weird. This man stood here for several minutes just staring in the horizon.
People passed him, took photos of the square, a cleaner sweeped by, tourists bumped into him, and there he stood. Then all of a sudden in a quiet lull he snapped out of it, look at me and walked away. That's the beauty of London for you. :)
My favourite from today was this beautiful couple having words in the middle of the square. Lucky for me he was wearing this pullover, too. Couples in public are fascinating topic for me. It all started by accident, unconsciously, me photographing them, but now that I'm more aware of my pull for them I like catching those moments that "make" being with someone so special. His passiveness is excellent in this particular photo. A classic couple stereotype enacted right in front of my eyes. :)
but in true British style I wasn't the only one trying to defeat the weather.
I really love how you can see the rain in this, especially hitting the ground.
This time I was trying to see things in more of a panorama way.
New points of view are always useful in trying to shake things up a bit.
I was interested in what was going on behind them in comparison to her facial expressions.
And these dots of red are lovely in this one I think.
Just loved the levels and positions of people in this one.
Couples to the left, trios to the right, please.
A great bonus was catching that family lost in the background. ;)
Nice levels of action in this one, too I think.
People passed him, took photos of the square, a cleaner sweeped by, tourists bumped into him, and there he stood. Then all of a sudden in a quiet lull he snapped out of it, look at me and walked away. That's the beauty of London for you. :)
I think this photo is a good example about that aesthetic I mentioned earlier.
There is something I am pushing myself towards.
I feel like questioning something although I'm not sure quite what it is myself yet.
Sometimes pictures like this open up to me more with time.
Like in this place I was drawn to that diagonal line and was just waiting for something interesting to happen.
Luckily it was something pink. :)
And she is so gorgeously suspicious in her neon pink shoes.
Rightly so! ;)
More photos to be really proud of in 2008. :)
At the moment I am trying to decide if I want to get back to the darkroom a bit or whether to do a two-day conference/workshop in May. It's not really a case of one cancelling the other, but May seems to already be quite action packed for me, including some time to be spent in Finland (as I was getting incredibly home sick last week). :) I'm quite looking forward to catching some orange photos in Helsinki then as well. But there are three more pink photos to complete this months series, so until then!
But it is Sunday and you're allowed to have special treats on Sundays, right?