If my previous post on the soaring vertical drama of Trellick Tower and the sinuous, wave-like flow of the Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate captured West London's brutalist spirit, then this one takes us straight into the City for the sequel: the Barbican Estate.
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Camera Santa
Camera Santa was very kind to me this year, I was lucky to get a 28mm M mount lens for my Leica cameras.
The 28mm focal length is often called the "goldilocks" of street photography. It’s wide enough to capture the energy of a city street but tight enough to feel personal. Recently, I took my Leica M10 paired with the tiny TTArtisan 28mm f/5.6 for a spin through the heart of London to see how this modern "tribute" lens handles the grit and glamour of the capital.
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Back to the Grind: Embracing the Commute with Street Photography
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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BPS and what will be.
The kids and I decided on our usual half term pilgrimage to London this past October.
A couple of photographic exhibitions took our fancy, namely the excellent Chris Kilip retrospective at The Photographer's Gallery and also the Bill Brandt inside the mirror at Tate Britain.
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Well that was a much needed half term break, which got a bit lively on Friday with Storm Eunice hitting the British Isles.
The year thus far at work has been breakneck, so having the past week off, has been a much needed downing of work tools (laptop and mobile) and a lifting of play tools (cameras).
No grand plans, as these are due in April with (fingers very crossed), a European city break with the kids.
But the kids and I popped up to London for a day trip, the kids love the big smoke. They are also avid exhibition / culture vultures, which is lovely.
We went to see the America in Crisis exhibition, at the Saatchi Gallery. £5 general admission, is very reasonably priced for 3 exhibition rooms, with images ranging from the 1960’s civil rights movement, to the storming of Capitol Hill in 2021 and much in between. I can't recommend it enough.
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Staycation 2020
A good friend of mine made an interesting statement about Covid19, back in May 2020.
He mentioned he was calling his girlfriends pug Civid' When I asked ‘why’? I was told, ‘its simple really…… it's stopping us going on holiday, we can't go out for an evening to the pub or restaurant and it poos everywhere'!
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