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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

A couple of shots on the #yashicamat124g #tlr at the end of summer. 

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#believeinfilm #120film #kodakgold200
So apparently it is all about the gear. Or at least about the gear that isn't expensive. 

This little Nikon F80 is a gem of a camera. 

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A set of pure randomness, #Nikonf80 #pointandshoot #kodak5222 #doublex
Delayed post of August 2025 #Modweekender2025.  Having to wait that little longer for the film lab to develop my film. 

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Selection of Kodak Gold on #35mm and #120.
Had a bit of a change around in my camera inventory.  I sold my #Chamonix45n2 4x5 large format gear.  Whilst I loved that camera, it was too clunky for my type of photography. 

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The M6 needs a visit to the doctors for a repair after I dropp
Random set from Margate at the beginning of Spring 2025

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#Dreamland #yashicamat124g #Kodakgold200 #120
Shadow play with some #kodak5222doublex.
Couple taken on #35mm and #120film. 

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#kodak5222doublex #fomapan400
A set from Brighton, shot over a couple of months. 

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#MinoltaX500 #FujiC200 #35mm
Boxes 

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#Minoltax500 #kodak5222doublex
Headed into town yesterday and took some #fmlstreetcandids  at the @transpridebrighton March. 

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#120 #Pentax67 #35mm #section28 #brighton
A couple of random photos of things that caught my eye on the #fujicags645s and the lovely #ilfordxp2 

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Lovely Margate. 

This set for me is the night and day difference between home and printlab developing. 

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The film was 18mths expired, but @agphotographic_photolab did a stellar job. 

For me that’s the 120 film developing sorted, I j