South Bank

If Covent Garden is my favourite part of London, then along the river near the South bank is my second favourite. When we lived there we would always take any visitors along the river and I never ever get bored of it.

The philosophy sign really tickled me, so thats probably my fave of this bunch!

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Kodak Portra 160
Location: London

Covent Garden

One of my first trips to London was in primary school when I was lucky enough to be taken to see Grease for a friends birthday. We had an explore of Covent Garden whilst we were there and I remember being completely taken with how delightful it was with all the people, the performers and the gorgeous architecture.

I love Covent Garden now as much as I ever have - the people watching especially is just delightful. The woman at the piano changed into heels for having her photo taken, the lady in the cardigan spotted me as I put the camera down and looked a little worried, the families and friends enjoying their food managed to look as if they were the only people there, happily ignoring the chaos around them.

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Kodak Portra 160
Location: Covent Garden, London

Playing tourist

Whilst spending the day in London with Dawn we walked through Hyde Park to Buckingham Palace and then from there to Trafalgar Square and I was quite delighted as I haven’t had the chance to do this and take film photos. It was also so fun getting to see the photos Dawn took and how she took them too! Her photos are so creative and exciting - in fact, I demand you go see her Instagram now, her London photos are really something amazing!

I’m still enjoying the results with this film whilst trying to balance my frustration at not quite being able to get the scan to look like the actual slide image. I could probably have paid someone to scan these instead - but even though it drives me mad, scanning my films is now part of my film photography process and each film I scan is a learning experience.

Film: Kodak Ektachrome - sent to me by Kodak Alaris, developed by AG Photolab and scanned by myself.
Camera: Canon EOS 750
Location: London - all the tourist spots haha.