London by Thames Clipper

Monday was my wedding anniversary so I spent the day with my wife zipping up and down the River Thames on the excellent Thames Clipper service, so fast once downstream of Tower Bridge and at just the right pace to get photos of London on the upstream side.

Easy access to all the pics (including Shirley, my wife) on Flickr but otherwise the images have been added to photoconnect - unfortunately another cloudy day with a short sunny period towards the end.

South Bank

River Thames

Canary Wharf

Greenwich

Transport in London

Events in London

Dublin's fair city.....

.... is sometimes best appreciated indoors. Well a lot of the time if my experience is anything to go by!

I was booked by a client in July to get images of their School in the centre of Dublin. The trip was called off at Gatwick airport when a call to Dublin confirmed the BBC's forecast of solid rain all day. So at the start of August I made a second attempt, this time deciding to stay on an extra day to catch up with some friends and spend that extra day seeing more of town and getting some stock photos of Dublin.

The day of the client shoot was dull and rainy but there were at least some dry spells. The next day was solid rain from the go so it was off to that faithful standby the Guinness Brewery until some blue sky was spotted on the horizon. After eating I had about an hour of sunshine to whizz around Trinity College and get a bus to the airport from O'Connell Street. So probably not the best 'photo day' (I bet there are thousands of images of Dublin in the rain) but it was a damn good pint of Guinness.....

I have put a few shots from the shoot in my portfolio on flickr.

Notting Hill Carnival - London 2008

I spent a few hours today at the Notting Hill Carnival - now officially the London Carnival - by the time I was getting into the groove I had to go. I've loaded several images up to Alamy (where they are guaranteed to miss the press deadlines even though Alamy are now on a 24 hour QC period. I'll load a few to Photoshelter later as 'breaking news' so they may be available in the USA before the UK. Except of course they are available on Photoconnect now!

Notting Hill Carnival 2008