London Street Photography
- April 5th, 2011
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Early in March I picked up a tweet from Kevin Mullins a great photographer I first meet a couple of years ago on a photography course. The tweet said “Anybody interested in street photography in London?” , looks like fun I thought, never done I before, I’m up for it.
Unfortunately, a couple of days before the event Kevin had to pull out, this seemed to trigger a huge drop out of people, but as long as a couple of us turned up I was still up for it. In the end there was just the three of us, Kim and Jeanette from CocoonPhotography and me, which by a strange coincidence I had also meet on another photography course with Crash Taylor.
One the day I got to the meeting point at Nelson’s Column a bit early so I started taken pictures and started walking about this was my first mistake! 12 o’clock arrived and I walked back to Nelson’s Column, there I meet up with Kim & Jeanette, we decided to spend ½ an hour taking pictures around Trafalgar Square, this was my second mistake! I had trigger some sort of police alarm, I was taking picture of people in a public place over a period of time, with a BIG Camera, not that I stood out from the crowd of 200-300 people also taken pictures of people with big cameras. It was like a Canon & Nikon advert everybody seemed to have a DSLR, I think the difference was that I was behaving strangely, lying on the ground, standing on things, leaning up against things.
Policeman: What are you doing?
Me: Taken pictures.
Policeman: Why?
Me: I’m a photographer.
Policeman: You have been here a long time and some people noticed you at taken lots of picture.
Me: Yes, I’m a photographer.
Policeman: ooh, ok then.
The rest of the day went without incident, we all had a great day out and I can’t wait to do it again.
Here are a few images from the day.
I really enjoyed spending the day with Kim & Jeanette, check out CocoonBlog for their picture.