Tony <3 WMD

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

London Scrawls Etc.

It was 18C yesterday – hotter in London than in Greece! Summer is on its way it seems – yay.

Completely unrelated to yesterday’s weather (I just felt compelled to share my excitement about the sunshine), here are some random shots.

On a wall in Neal’s Yard – full-view it I’d be lying if I said the focus wasn’t intentional.

Anyone for emo sex?

What every Londoner needs to do. Desperately.

This one was taken outside a really tiny barber’s place. We stood there for a while – I’m pretty sure he must have noticed us in the reflection there haha. Poor guy – can’t be left in peace for a haircut.

I like this next one and I’m not quite sure why… The guy was sitting there in some kind of gallery, eating – all on his own. Odd. Yay for reflections.

Prince Charles has a new ‘career’ modelling some rather expensive suits

I just found these shots of Meera

She was telling us a rather embarrassing and hilarious story here (I won’t give away any details!) and being the crazy girl that she is, she couldn’t have us looking at her face while she told it. So she found various objects to hide behind, regardless of whether she had a camera aimed at her or not. Meera’s a nutter, which is why we get on so well I guess! I do love this girl

In some random news, Yahoo’s You Witness site has used some of my Chinese New Year shots. I’ve heard mixed things regarding this. Some people seem to be against the idea of submitting shots to these kind of ‘citizen journalists’ sites where people are essentially giving away the rights to their pictures, for nothing. I don’t personally see why that’s a problem – I mean sure, you don’t get paid, but it’s about the exposure as far as I’m concerned. I’m not fussed about not getting paid – it’s why I have a ‘proper’ full-time job!

Hopefully some film shots to come next time..