Shadows and light in London

I publish my photos here well and truly out of order compared to when they were taken. I've got 10 years' worth of photos that I can find and so I've got a good backlog in a Lightroom collection that I can pick from as the mood takes me. Sometimes I'll post a photo I've only just taken and more often, I post a photograph taken years ago. That 'to publish' collection gets added to regularly, both with new shots and as I go back through my archive and rediscover old favourites or find raw files I never got round to processing.

Whenever I happen across photos taken with my trusty old Fujifilm X100 (the original one), I fall a little bit in love with its image quality all over again: the percentage of keepers out of that camera just seems to be higher than almost any other camera I've owned.

Of the 130 photographs currently sitting in the queue to publish here, 6 are from my first day out with the X100 and today's photograph is one of them. It was London Open House weekend, so a friend and I got to go and tour the Lloyd's of London building in the morning and then walked over to Maltby St. Market and Kappacasein (a 7th X100 shot from that same day) for lunch.

I'm not at all sure where I actually took this picture, but it seems to be somewhere between Maltby St. Market and Borough Market based on its order in the pictures I took that day. I do love some good contrasting light in my pictures and the clouds with a little rain in them provide a good frame along with the darker trees to focus you in on the brightly lit building and the lady sitting on the park bench with a pushchair.

This is the kind of street shot I used to take a lot more of and would like to get back to taking again. I used to just take my camera and wander the streets of London, taking random turns down streets and finding new and interesting photo subjects. Life changes and taking that kind of time to just explore becomes a much more intentional act, one I need to remind myself to take when I can.