The short straw....

I'd been hired by the German artist Sebastian Kruger to get photos of his window display at Harrods in London so went along yesterday evening thinking that this must be one of the easier assignments.....

I arrived to find that Sebastian's window was the only one on Knightsbridge with a bus shelter outside! So I had barely any room to work, could not get the longer shot that I had been expecting to get across the street and had added people congestion as a result of the queues of people waiting for the buses!

What made the situation more difficult was photographer congestion. When I arrived the window immediately to the right of mine was being photographed for a PR agency and then, 20 minutes into my shoot, another photographer pitched up with tripod just to the left of the bus stop - a perfect place for him to get photos of the building acoss the street. So there we were, 3 photographers on separate commercial assignments squeezed around all these people queuing for the buses. They must have thought it was a camera club outing!

Anyway, you'll see a pic or two in Sebastian Krugers's blog in due course!