2 Sides to Every Story

I saw this scrawled on a pavement somewhere in central London (I don't really remember where exactly).

As well as the obvious, I also liked the earthy colours and ambient lighting of the whole scene.

I remember thinking it looked kind of intriguing, but very out of place. It wasn't near any buildings of significance (government, etc) where the "message" might have had some impact, it was just under a tunnel of scaffolding. You usually end up finding interesting scenes in weird places.

Backside Tailslide

Taken at the wonderfully grimey Southbank Centre.

(30mm 1/1000, f4.2 ISO 400)

I don't know if backside tailslide is the correct name for this trick (the closest I've ever been to riding a skateboard was playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 on my computer) but this skater was performing something a lot like the videos I checked out online for comparison.

It was a sunny day and I was set at ISO 100, but for this shot I bumped it up because I was shooting into shadows and wanted a fast shutter speed. I chucked it into shutter priority and fired off a couple of quick shots.

He didn't land the trick after this particular attempt, but his stance mid-slide looked pretty neat.

Grimy

Urban decay always makes for an interesting subject.

Nothing like old spray can art on a rusty bridge. Filthy perfection!

I Like You.

A street shot taken some time last year. The weather's been mostly crappy recently so I decided to look in my pics 'archive'.

I had my 35mm lens on at the time and saw this bit of graffiti in an alley somewhere in Soho. There weren't many people walking through the alley but I put the camera to my eye and half-pressed and waited. Fortunately the man that ended up walking into frame was too busy walking fast to look into the lens and didn't really notice me taking the photo.

More street photos to come, whenever...