London Photos: London life in images by Kim Gilmour

A few years ago I took a similar photo of leaves and frangipani in Newtown, Sydney, and decided to do the same here. I just like the contrast between bitumen (what do they call it here?) path and autumn leaves.

My next plan is to take photos of my local area’s laundromats! The bizarre neon lighting, 50s style setup and interesting laundromat inhabitors all make for surreal viewing when you walk down the street at night.

Spotted this sign, “And the view’s so nice” on the path leading up to Primrose Hill last Sunday. They could have chosen a more creative word like “misty”. But that doesn’t sound so complimentary! The leaves are looking great this time of year!

This rather plain looking photo was taken early this year one morning in Regent’s Park, on my way to Primrose Hill, but I don’t mind it! I seem to have put a lot of London snow photos in here! This is because I was brought up in Sydney, where it never snows at all. There are some great thunderstorms there, though!
Too bad snow is white – we won’t be able to use the Polaroid manipulation to smush it around!!

We went past Blaine in his stupid box (see Polaroid Manipulations for our attempts with the Tower Bridge) yesterday and encountered about a billion people all looking up as soon as he stood up to take a pee… there were even street vendors! Behold the glorious light shing from above as Blaine watches over this procession of zoo visitors! (That’s sarcasm, folks!) We didn’t stop to loiter, we kept going. That was also the first time I’d seen the Mayor’s building in real life, too – might take some more pics of that later.

Headache-inducing tiles, perhaps, but the busiest tube station in London takes its symmetry seriously.

Get your lardy ice cream here! Who is Mrs Wilde? How long has she been making candy floss, and how long has the packaging had that scary clown on it? Does she ever leave her van?

Another snowy London photo

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