Monday 17 February 2014

Trying to reshoot London

Last weekend, after visiting the wonderful Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the National History Museum on the Saturday, I had a free Sunday to wander London, as my wonderful wife had a conference in another part of the city.

So I decided I would take the common walk along the Thames from Westminster to Tower Bridge. I hadn't had a chance to play with my 10 stop filter for a while, so saw this as a perfect opportunity to take a bit of time (as I was on my own) to have a little play. The only issue I had, was that I didn't have a tripod with me... so I spent a lot of my time finding flat surfaces to rest my camera for the 30 second exposures I was capturing. The view of Parliament has a decent ledge, and I liked the surface the view of Tower Bridge offered, but otherwise, it wasn't the easiest task.

I also realise that these shots had been taken thousands of times before as well, but always nice to bank my own take on these popular locations, and try and do something a little bit different.