Photograph of Tower Bridge at sunset

December 5, 2018

I took this photograph of Tower Bridge at sunset on a November evening at 5.30pm. Autumn in the UK can result in some fantastic sunsets. I know sunset pictures can be a bit of a cliché but I think it’s OK in this shot. The sky was amazing so it would have been a shame not to photograph it. Taken on the northern side of the River Thames, near St Katharine Pier at the junction with the river and the entrance to St Katharine Docks, I included the pier to give some foreground interest and carefully composed the photograph. It’s always a good …

Photograph of the London Eye and Big Ben

November 27, 2018

I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time to take this photograph of the London Eye and Big Ben. But I think you make your own luck. I live and work in London and I often cross the River Thames by one of the Golden Jubilee Bridges. I’ve taken many photographs of London from there but this is my favourite. As I walked over the bridge back to Waterloo Station I noticed a patch of blue sky on the horizon moving from right to left. I decided to wait and see if it ended up …

The best camera

July 20, 2017

…is the one that’s with you. So said American photographer Chase Jarvis . iPhone 5s. Saturday 15th July 2017 at 10.20pm I always have a camera with me and 99% of you reading this will always have a camera with you. I’m not talking about always carrying around the 5kg of Nikon gear that is my basic standard kit for my day job. I am talking about the camera on my phone. While many of the photographs I publish on social media and in my eBook Photographing London have been taken with my Nikons or Fujis, many have been taken on a …

Photographing London

June 14, 2017

A good photograph is knowing where to stand – so the great American landscape photographer Ansel Adams once said. This is often quoted and is completely correct. It doesn’t matter what you’re photographing. There will always be the best location or angle to take a picture from. So as I watched tourists taking photographs of Piccadilly Circus, I wondered what sort of images they’d end up with, and I came up with the idea of my eBook Photographing London. I’m very lucky to live and work as a photographer in London, one of the most photogenic cities in the world. It’s …