Street Furniture

I came across these spheres by chance recently, on one of my photographic meanders in central London, near St Paul's Cathedral.

Don't know when they were put there, or for how long, or who constructed them. And the people walking by enjoyed taking photos of themselves in the very reflective convex surfaces and then inspecting the image on the backs their cameras. You can get an interesting reflection of the cathedral nearby also. The spheres are  interesting, if different, street furniture.

St George

A Pageant of St George was held this morning in the City of London - apparently for the 1st time in 425 years.  As I like photographing these types of events, went along with camera(s) to do just that.  I'd bought some black & white film (Delta) for another event a few months back, but never used it then, so I today used both traditional film and digital.

Managed to catch the pageant outside St Pauls, had to jostle for a better position amongst the crowds in the warm spring sunshine. Whilst it's good to have the sunshine and blue skies, the light was a little harsh - resulting in some squinting eyes in some of my photos.Used a 36 exposure roll of Delta, which is now back in my fridge, awaiting developing. Some day, when I get around to it.

 

 I'll post some of my Black & White in due course ..... developing ..... scanning ..... a long as it doesnt involve a lot of time in a wet Dark Room.


One last thing for now -  I was a little disappointed not to see any dragons.

St Paul's

Spent a very pleasant, if chilly, time in Central London a few evenings ago. Took my tripod in, thought I'd try to capture St Pauls at night time - from across the Thames. Good location - outside Tate Modern. Made a few exposures - and attach one I liked here. I'll have to analyse this one (and the others from that evening) in more detail soon - I was varying the shutter speeds, f-stops and colour balance in order to achieve different results. That is one advantage (some may say only but thats another matter) of digital photography - tha camera automatically records the technical details of each shot, for subsequent analytical use - you dont have to write down copious notes at the time....



Here's a similar photo of St Paul's for comparison, taken from almost the same position, across the river from outside the Tate Modern - but this one was taken in daylight. Quite a difference ?