Yesterday saw the launch of the mayors bike hire scheme in London. There are racks of cycles at intervals around central London. At present only registered users can use it, soon anyone with a credit will be able to. They are cheap to hire for the first hour of so, but start getting more expensive.
As mentioned before I work with make up artists to take photos for their advertising and portfolios. In this case I had worked with the artist and the model before. This happened to be the last picture taken in the session. I liked it, it is different to those typically used for this kind of market.
I was walking around west London near Lancaster Gate the other day and heard the sound of horses. There was a convoy of carriages being drown by horses. The people on them were all dressed up in period clothes. What it was in aid of I don't know. Looked nice though.
I went to go out into my garden yesterday and saw two magpies just sitting on the lawn. They were a shortish distance apart facing the same way. I don't know if its common for magpies to sit on lawns, but I've never seen it. They are usually hopping around and squawking at anything that takes their fancy. So here's one of them, sitting there
I was walking along a lake in Wanstead Park and saw a dragonfly flitting about. I watched for its favoured perch and it turned out to be a post slightly out in the water. Making it difficult to get close. Still no choice really, I was using my 100mm Macro so being a bit further away than ideal wasn't too bad. After half a dozen attempts I got this nice close one.
