Toilets, British Library
This is a shot of the gents’ in the British Library, which had a pleasing symmetry to them. And this sort of shot is surprisingly difficult to get – a completely unoccupied set of urinals is a rare thing indeed, unless you’re in the cleaning business or operate unsociable hours. Anyway, lines and textures and [...]
Mirrored railing, V&A Museum, London
This is from the V&A Museum in London, up in the initially-unpromising glass and ceramics area. I hate glass and ceramics areas in museums – I kinda of want to run through the Ashmolean with a hammer in each hand and lay waste to all their plates, but thankfully this is an extremely well-repressed part [...]
Tube bench, Marylebone station, London
On my way back from a meeting (at an uber-swish five star hotel, no less – get me), and the platform on Marylebone tube station was completely deserted, affording me the opportunity to grab this shot of one of the benches. Depth of field was way too shallow at f1.8, but I like the level [...]
Stairwell, Temple, London
Yep, it’s a photo of some stairs. Bet you’re glad you clicked on this now, right? This is personally notable for me as it’s the first time I’ve tried any of that pseudo-HDR stuff. Well, basically taking an under-exposed, well-exposed and over-exposed version of the same pic and layering them together to get some nice [...]
The Queen, Oxford Street, London
Aww, The Queen. Everyone loves Her Maj. Here she is, beaming beatifically at her subjects from a postcard rack on Oxford Street. Also a good chance for me to test out f1.8 on my prime lens and marvel at the LOVELY BLURRING in the background. Oh my goodness it’s nice. Going to be hard pushed [...]
French girls talking, South Bank, London
I went to London this week and took some photos with a 35mm prime lens. Some of them turned out quite nicely – I really like this one. The two French girls stood there for ages just chatting away and let me take their picture, presumably assuming I was shooting Big Ben or the river [...]
