Bound for adventure

On my way to the station I walked over a cycle bridge, which spans a number of railway tracks and serves for children as a gallery from which they watch trains coming and going or being washed by giant brushes.

I was going to a meeting in Bloomsbury, to talk about my forthcoming workshops, Portrait Photography in Brief, but before that I went for a walk in the City of London, the financial heartland of England. The dynamics of that place, the energy bursting forward is perfectly set within its architecture, narrow passages and turbulence of crowds spilling into pavements with their laptops, briefcases, mobile phones and posh shopping bags. I always choose to walk between two buildings: expansive, almost overflowing Lloyds Insurance Headquarters

designed by Richard Rogers and self-contained, smart “Gherkin” by Lord Foster, on my way to have lunch in Spitalfields.

Then to The October Gallery, good talk and back to Cambridge, but as I had to wait for my train for a while, I went off to wander around St.Pancras, the station which is the London terminal for the Eurostar trains. It is all glass within nineteenth century vast structure, which protects travelers on a move, bound for adventure from wind, rain and snow.

Not a long time ago Roman and I

boarded such a train to Paris, where we spent a few days marauding around; Roman was

breakdancing and I was attempting to choose right places to eat at low prices.

One day we walked through the newly opened grand facade of Louvre, through a court of Cour Carree, emerged at the main entrance and Roman took off in a bouncy manner. The classical palace and the modern, glass pyramid became a stage within which his energy flew upwards.

I kneeled down and shot.

Camera: Nikon F75 with a standard lens (50mm)

Shutter speed: 1/250 sec

Aperture: f=11 or 16 (not sure)

Film: Agfa or Kodak (don’t remember) possibly 400 ASA