Fortuitous

I had business meetings in London yesterday, which gave me the chance to walk between venues and take a few pictures.  I was fortunate to stumble upon the display of Poppies outside Westminster Abbey.  Whilst very poignant and sombre, they are also quite photogenic, but the task to represent them tastefully is not so easy.  Hopefully I acheived it.

I took a few pictures of other landmarks which have all been done to death (is there any part of London that hasn't been photographed) but my favourite is the cheeky Seagull that was making an awful row on the wall of the Thames, with Parliament and Big Ben in the background behind him.

See the rest here.

Last night was competition night at the Camera Club (SNDCC), I entered one image in the projected image section and amazingly it scored 10/10.

I didn't find out till my pals joined me down the pub as I don't go to the club on competition nights, too stressful having your picture ripped apart by the judge, I wanna get up and hit em sometimes.  Its nice to get a good score though.

What is especially amusing about this one though is that this is actually two pictures, the poppy's were shot the other side of Peterborough, and the sunset was shot 20 miles away at Grafham Water! but they work well together.