These images are all from a day trip to London that I made last weekend. I went to visit some photography exhibitions including the Taylor Wessing portrait winners at the National Portrait Gallery. I entered two prints but didn’t get shortlisted out of the 6,000+ entries. Looking at the 60 shortlisted portraits I noticed only two were black & white. Both of my entries were black & white so perhaps that reduced my chances? The weather was nice all day and the light was fantastic for photography. People seemed to be in a good mood and a number of people came up to me to ask about the film camera I was using, something I am always happy to talk about.
On this day trip I shot more film than on any previous visit to London. I will break the images down to multiple posts as I make my way through scanning the film.
[Tech info:] Kodak Portra 400 film in a Mamiya C330 medium format camera. Processed and scanned by me.
![Into the light. People walking towards the London Eye](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/6405806203_beca92099f_b.jpg)
Into the light. I love the long shadows in this shot. You can see the London Eye in the background.
![Bagpipes A man playing bagpipes, London](http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6223/6405806619_134a032d6b_b.jpg)
Bagpipes, Westminster bridge. This man's jacket and tie was well co-ordinated with the colour of the bridge.
![Ice-cream man Ice-cream seller](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7025/6397208431_148466de7e_b.jpg)
Ice-cream van, Westminster bridge. With the nice weather this man was quite busy. I ended up holding up foot traffic to get this shot.
![Lunch break Scouts eating lunch](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6405806903_3300df33bf_b.jpg)
Lunch break.
![Freestyle football Freestyle football skills](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6405807205_bce047989d_b.jpg)
Freestyle football. I like the reaction of the man on the right.
![Breakdancer Breakdancer](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6405807391_2ca36c3d14_b.jpg)
Breakdancer. When photographing tall people with a camera using a waist level finder the images tend to be on the unflattering side.
![Wooden horse Wooden horse](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6405807703_9477e88c93_b.jpg)
Joseph the horse. I was drawn to the bright colours of these horses in the sunlight.
![Back in the day.](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6405807923_36e97c5d09_b.jpg)
This gentleman came up to me to say that he learnt photography back in the 1970's on the same camera that I was using. He still has some lovely film cameras but sadly doesn't use them any more because digital is so convenient. What a shame.
![Under the bridge Lady with red hair](http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6220/6405806387_ff12bb2838_b.jpg)
This lady's red hair caught my eye as she was browsing secondhand books under one of the bridges along the Thames. The was amazing under there and I could have easily spent all day there.
very nice images. the last girl has a wonderful smile.
Thanks, Tobiah.
Unfortunately I didn’t give this blog address to the lady in the last shot. Hopefully she’ll get to see the shot some day.