June in London

May and June passed by, and now it's already July. Months change so quickly as the weather here in London. Heavy rain is followed by bright sky, and after a few minutes the clouds are back, and everything starts from the beginning. There are some days, when you can fully enjoy the weather, but sometimes you get caught by an unexpected shower and you just cannot do anything about it. These are the times when you can see people walking peacefully in the rain, without any coat or umbrella. The rain comes so fast, they have no time to find a shelter, they just acquiesce to the situation and continue their way.
The sun, on the other hand, lures people out from their homes.



This Italian girl decided to practice playing accordion on the street, so she could earn some money at the same time. Just like several other people, I stayed listening to her music for a few minutes, when she started to play La Noyée sensationally from Yann Tiersen (one of my favourite composer-musician).
/To get the essence of the environment, why not open this YouTube link, and listen to the song's cover by Dave Thomas/

I had a visit to the TATE Modern gallery (and its amazing bookstore :P),



...took some pictures on my way,



...and had a walk till the sunset.



My school duties did not let me to take too many pictures in the last two months, and I could put all the photos of June into one post. Maybe the upcoming month will result more pictures.

Elephant and Castle (in b&w)

Working on my major project proposal, and several other projects, are keeping me busy these days. Almost 3 weeks have passed by since my last post, so I decided to upload at least something, which I already have on my computer.
These photos have been taken about two weeks ago, after I attended a 35mm camera workshop at uni. This was my first time taking pictures with an SLR film camera (Pentax K1000, 50mm fix lens, ISO 400 b&w film), so basically it was just experimentation. It was fun, but I guess I will stick to my "old" DSLR cam :)

Various spots in London

I had some guests during the Easter holiday. My brother visited me together with his girlfriend. I tried to show them around London, at least what we could fit into 5 days of sightseeing. In this post I'm including some of the photos I took during those days.

/My guests at the Tower Bridge - you can see if you take a closer look ;) /


/A picture at TATE Modern, and my regular picture of the London Eye/

These three pictures were taken on Brick Lane. I have not been in this area before, someone has suggested me, but I did not know what to expect from it.
Suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of the Sunday Market. Many local designers' products, antiques, food, some music events, graffities, garbage and lots of people of course. Another interesting area in London.



One of my personal favourite of this post is the picture on the right below, where a cab has been caught in movement under one of the railway bridges.





And finally a picture of a squirrel in St James Park. Fascinating how friendly and lovely these creatures are. Most of the passing people (basically tourist) just get mesmerized by them. So if you want to see a squirrel, you just need to look for groups of people taking picture of something in the grass, trees.

The streets of London - again

It seems summer has arrived in London. The last weeks were mostly about bright sunny days and relatively hot weather.

I have to note now, that in Scandinavia if the temperature goes above 20 celsius degrees and you can see the sun at the same time, it can be definitely considered as a wonderful summer weather. In the recent years I got used to this, and now I can't even bear if it is hotter than 30 degrees.
Now I started to have difficulties, as there is almost no wind, and the temperature has approached my limit several times already. I could not stay inside my house, sometimes it is even worse there, so I had to go out taking some pictures.
Above left you could see a picture of my common photo-topic, the London Eye, while on the right the driver of a double-decker is probably having siesta.



These pictures have not been taken on an Easter vacation to Northern Africa or the Middle-East, but on the streets of Whitechapel, in London. It is really interesting to go there, you can experience a totally different atmosphere from what you see a few miles further to the center of London.

Well, this post happened to be quite short, more pictures are coming soon.

The streets of London

For this time, I put together some images which I could not really fit into any specific topics of the previous weeks. So some of these were taken back in March, although the majority is already from April. They are the results of the small walks I had around Elephant and Castle when I had some time. I think they do not need any further explanations, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask!
/I know, I showed you several squirrels before, but I still get surprised when I meet one, on my way to the uni, and I just have to take a picture of them./