Madrid street – chums

Little bit of street now. As I write, I’m sitting outside Lola’s cafe on the corner of Buiten and Long streets, finishing a rather nice salad nicoise. Or rather what fashionistas call salad nicoise.  A real salad nicoise has more salad than tuna, and the tuna is cooked and shredded on top of mesclun ,…

Today’s photo:Low light under the bridge. An early evening shot, with light coming in almost horizontally into the arches of London’s Blackfriar’s railway bridge, with the piers of the old bridge showing on the left. This was the first LE shot with my new D750, taken in February 2015. It was a 4 minute shot,…

This is the first of a series of shots taken in the footsteps of the great Alex Webb, a photographer who I greatly admire.  Webb takes colour street shots of great chromatic contrast and with unsettling, but perfect composition.  Some of his very best work is in his book, The Suffering of Light. Even if…

Today’s photo:Smoke. In between the extended periods of summer rain the English like to take their kit off, and lie sparko in the parko having a nice smoke. Shot last summer in the little park adjacent to the Oxo tower in London’s South Bank. I liked the guy’s expansive smoking style, his impressive tattoo and…

I have wanted to take this shot for a while after having noticed the effect a year or two ago.  The viewpoint is from Kommetjie looking across the bay to Long Beach where the horses are exercised in the morning.  I liked the idea of appearing to see the riders as though from a boat…

I’ve been working and thinking quite a lot about street photography this summer, and developing my technique in a few new areas.  These are some shots in the ‘Cinematic Style’     One of my favorite photographers and writers on photography is  Ming Thein.  He is based in Kuala Lumpur, although I’ve never met him…