A Summer Gone Too Fast

I had a roll of film developed that had been in my camera for the last 3 months.

Kodacolor 200 film – Nikon F3 – 50mm f1.8

A reminder of summer.. and England’s somewhat dire performance in the World Cup.

A snapshot of classy Croydon:

Surely the world’s busiest shop aka Primani aka Primark on Oxford Street, taken from a bus:

I cannot go into this place without instantly feeling claustrophobic.

Queen. The world’s friendliest pit-bull.

East London

No – I haven’t seen Banksy although I’ve seen a lot of wannabes ; )

Spitalfields in East London always has something going on, whether it’s quirky markets, or musicians performing, or in this case, people dancing to a jazz band.

A great way to spam for free – simply write it across the wall:

BBBBand.. I checked out their myspace page and their music isn’t as bad as their graffiti, but that doesn’t mean it’s great either.

@jimeh:

He took this shot of me, in all my photographic glory:

The most incredibly random jumble sale:

You get given a plastic bag and you can fill it up with as many items for a tenner!

Switching back to the easy, auto comfort of digital!

Brick Lane – definitely the most featured street on this site.  I should create a new category for it!

Someone clearly doesn’t appreciate dubstep pioneer Skream (who is fab I’d like to point out, if you’re into that kind of music):

Superman/boy reappears!

The moose head is a nice touch:

A great piece as usual by Jef Aerosol:

I don’t know why,  but I like the focusing on this:

A part of East London I had never seen before:

It was pretty much a derelict area surrounded by housing estates – literally the kind of place you’d see on documentaries about run-down parts of the city.

Jim had fun with the random pile of tyres we stumbled across under a bridge.  It’d be a great location for a shoot – if anyone ever discovered it!

East London really is random.

A kid who started shouting at us for some reason..

.. so I took his picture, as one does.  As we started to walk away more of them appeared and began shouting so we decided to walk a bit faster and leave as quick as possible! It’s quite sad when you end up fearing a bunch of 10 year olds.

More of East London to follow on another roll of film, which will hopefully take less than 3 months to complete : )

On a completely different topic – my book on India is almost finished! Quick ‘preview’:

I didn’t realise shortlisting my own images would be such a difficult task. Watch this space for more details..