Summer ?

Nothing much to blog about, photography speaking, over the last few weeks - I have to thank the vagaries of a summer here in London for that. I've never really been into photographing indoors - in a studio for example (perhaps I should ?) and I don't expect it to be wall-to-wall sunshine outside, but when the light out there is consistently flat, dull and uninteresting outside - in August (it's supposed to be summer here !) then I think I can complain.

However it's not been all bad - I've been to a few photographic shows, and took my camera to visit Brick Lane and Greenwich.  I hadn't visited the Brick Lane area of London for some time- a  year or so perhaps  - and found much has changed since then.  Some of my photos taken then found their way into my Associateship (of the Royal Photographic Society) panel - which you can see on my website here. My last visit to Greenwich was more than a few years ago and the financial area in London's Docklands has sprouted up since then. The views across London of the much older historic areas of the Naval college buildings in the foreground and the modern architecture of  Docklands in the mid distance are worth it. The East/West meridian runs through the observatory at Greenwich (and  haven't you heard of GMT ?), and there were long queues of people waiting to stand astride it with their left side in the East and right in the West.

The photographic exhibitions I've been too include "Exposed" at Tate Modern, the RPS,153rd International Print at Spitalfield, and the Press Photographer Year 2010 the National Theatre on the South Bank. It is always a good idea, I think, to see exhibitions such as these - you can learn from comparing  your own photographic work to what you see on the wall, and also see what others are doing. Shame the London Salon had to be cancelled at the Cotton Centre this year - thats the 2nd time this has happened in the last couple of years.