The London Marathon took place on 22nd April. My cousin was running in it but I didn’t manage to take any pictures of him : ( It’s a bit of a mission finding anyone in such a big crowd. Nevertheless, I took some random shots – they’re nothing special; it would have helped if I’d had a) a better lens and b) a better view!
So, I used my trusted 350D with the lens I’m starting to hate – 18-55mm. Too much depth of field. Horrid stuff.
Funky headgear
More funky headgear
Looks like she’d had a bit of an accident 
There were a lot of patriotic outfits
People had their names on their shirts which enabled the crowd to cheer them on personally. It was very cool how the crowd were so encouraging to everyone.
Poor piggy..
A policemen pretended to join in
The weather was lovely – a bit too lovely in fact. It was one of the hottest marathons to date, so wearing this couldn’t have helped. I think the expression says it all.
A great marketing idea, eh?
I found Borat!
Is niiice.
Or not.
Looks like Superman was enjoying himself a bit too much here Eeek.
I think it’s highly courageous of all those who took part. All of the shots were taken about two miles before the end, so virtually at the end of the 26 miles..insane. Personally, I was exhausted just watching! I’m a weakling.
Completely random but from the same day
We love Tony Blair.
14/3/07 – London, Westminster
I was in Westminster at lunchtime today – there were protests taking place against the Government’s stance on “weapons of mass destruction”. Conveniently I had a camera on me!
Greenpeace protesters climbed up a crane in front of the Houses of Parliament and let down this banner. Yes, Tony Blair loves WMD. Effective? Hm, not sure but it got pretty widespread publicity – so I suppose their mission was accomplished.
It actually coincided with the day that MPs were going to vote on the subject of Trident. Read more about it here.
In Parliament Square, Brian Haw was making his voice heard through a loudspeaker. He was urging people to go to the Tate Britain to see the anti-war exhibition. As you can see, the road was blocked off by police so I couldn’t go any closer to say hello to him 
Next time, next time.
These protesters had attached themselves to barrel-like objects, as the police looked on. It was quite amusing really – there were only a handful of demonstrators yet loads of police, and the road was blocked off.
Er, I don’t think they were very amused.
More of them on the other side of the street where we couldn’t get access to.
You can’t really see it clearly but there were men sawing away at the barrels to release the protesters, while they just sat there and stared at them haha
One of them is taken away by police after being ‘freed’
This woman was talking to a “legal observer” about all kinds of things, but in short – how fucked up the Government is. She was looking at me the whole time. I guess she was talking to me then!
That’s all. I miss the days when a lunch hour could stretch to the whole day.
On a side note, remember this woman from my Darfur shots? She reminded me of Michael Jackson, but I just found out that she’s actually Bianca Jagger
