New Year’s Day in the West End
Continuing my series on looking through windows. I took this one outside a hotel in the west end of London on New Year’s Day. Trying to get her framed by the railings was difficult. I don’t like the window box thing in the bottom left corner but it was impossible not to get it in the shot. I wanted the railings to frame her and I think sticking my lens through the railings might have attracted her attention.
This roasted chestnut seller on Oxford Street was not busy despite there being quite a crowd on Oxford Street, shopping on New Year’s Day. While at an ice cream stand a few yards up the road, the crowd was three-deep. It wasn’t very cold but wasn’t exactly summer either and yet people wanted ice cream rather than hot chestnuts. Eh, there’s nowt so queer as folk.
The triumph of convenience over good sense and good taste! Not that there’s anything wrong with ice cream, but come on, how about a sense of the seasons? Beautiful photos, of course. And I like how even the street-vending chestnut seller is on his cell phone – I guess at this point it’s no longer even noteworthy
Ha ha ha. Your comment about the phone made me laugh. I could do a series about people on the phone but it might just be too easy… and boring – people have blank faces when they’re texting or tweeting or whatever they are doing.
I have just discovered you via Spitalfieldslife blog. Your photos are gorgeous, I really love the night time ones looking through windows, very rich and beautiful.
Thank you. I’m glad you like them. I do like the lighting in London at night. And night time is when I have the time to go out with my camera at the moment because it gets dark so early.
So cool. I think you’ve inspired me to go for a walk tomorrow and do some street photography.
Where are you at the moment? Travelling or in Alaska? Looking forward to seeing the results of your street photography expedition