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Back to the Grind: Embracing the Commute with Street Photography

From My Lens January 12, 2025

After months (or perhaps years) of the freedom of working from home, the siren call of the office is once again beckoning and on most if not all of us.

Photography isn’t my full time job, it’s my sanity check, to inject a form of creativity into my brain, after spending the working week crunching and counting numbers.

It was back in 2011, when I purchased the iPhone 4, that I discovered the genre of iphoneography over on Flickr, which cultivated into street photography, as an activity to break up the banality of the daily commute into London.  This has piqued my curiosity ever since and blossomed into what is now a fully involved side hustle of managing this website and Etsy store, selling my wares.

As we enter 2025, Labour are seated in Westminster with their pledge to grow the economy, we are all (re)starting the weekly pilgrimage back to the office.  Alas, this means a return to the daily grind of the commute. But what if, instead of dreading that train journey or bus ride, we could embrace it as an opportunity for creativity and self-discovery.

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In General Musings Tags london, commute, tfl, working from home, return to office, capture, tube, public transport
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Turning full circle?

From My Lens November 2, 2023

Capturing the Everyday: Rediscovering Street Photography on my Commute with the Google Pixel 8 Pro

11/01/2023

Today’s blog post is eery. its a little over 13 years ago, with a simple iPhone 4 smartphone in my hand, that I started to document my daily commute to London. The primary objective was to avoid the mundane and avoid the negativity of the other commuters ‘getting my day off to a bad start’.

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In Photo Essay Tags street photography, google pixel 8 pro, mobile photography, commute, technology, creative pursuits, smartphone
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Instagram - Film

One from February 2025. 

#film #120 #yashicamat124g #ilfordxp2
A couple from the archive of Brighton Pavilion. 

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#kodakgold200 #120 #mediumformat
A couple of #LargeFormat #4x5 images taken at Camber Sands Beach, at the beginning of the year. 

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This was supposed to be the start of a new project, that I have had to defer. It's gone a little mental at work and also the house renovation
Brighton Beach, March 2025. 

#yashicamat124g #Kodakgold200 #120 #mediumformat
Developed a couple of rolls of #Kodakgold200 with @takeiteasylab

Turned out great, bearing in mind they expired 18mths ago. 

#120 #mediumformat #yashicamat124g
Quadrophenia Alley taken with my #leicam6 and #kodak5222doublex
One from early this year at Camber Sands Beach. 

#4x5 #chamonix45n2 #fomapan400
A couple of #fmlstreetcandids of a pro Palestine demo in London Road, Brighton. 

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The 2nd is slightly out of focus, muscle memory using the excellent #fujicags645s is a little rusty. 

#ilfordxp2 #peopleofthestreet #beleiveinfilm
Saturday people. 

Not had much luck with the film camera collection, moving house, dinks and dents aplenty. 

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A little good news, was a hack I discovered for the faulty winder on my #Minoltax500. I love this camera, especially the 28mm #ro
Another frame from the recent #ilfordxp2 that I put through the #yashicamat124g. 

I love this film.  Have 8 x rolls incoming today, ready for the weekend. 

#6x6 #TLR
Decided to dust down the #yashicamat124g #TLR today. I normally get my film off the web, so paying £11.50 for a roll of #ilfordxp2 was a tad steep. 

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Love this film as I do the 124g.
Headed up to the dunes of Camber Beach at the weekend, as I'm thinking of starting a new photo project. 

Met this fella, entertaining himself metal detecting, whilst his wife was shopping in Rye.  He's an Apple farmer by day (cider not eating apples