A photo-tour of Southbank and Westminster. 3rd November.

I have the weekend off, so I have been able to do my own thing on this rather beautiful but chilly day! Onto the DLR I hopped to get myself into central London to do some shooting. The problem with taking photos in London is that there are so many things to take photos of I need to plan what I am actually going to focus on photographing. 

My focus for today was South Bank skate park; a skate park which has interested me over the years, it has been something I've always wanted to delve into... so today and last wednesday were perfect times for me to delve away!

Daniel was just mending his bike when I asked him for his portrait, he was doing some pretty sick moves before I took this photo though ('scuse the street lingo!).

After spending a bit of time meeting great people and taking photos at the skate park I headed down the embankment; I was astonished to find a number of people clutching Ice Creams, it was such a cold day.. far too cold for Ice Cream!

Jubilee Gardens (a green space next to the London Eye) has had a make-over and I have never really had the chance to walk through it, so I had a nosey and then perched upon a small hill and watched the Street Performers from afar. I was quite disappointed with two performers who's act was the Cha Cha slide and the dance to Gangham Style, not overly original... it was great to see people joining in though!

Westminster Bridge was crammed, but amongst all the hustle and bustle I found this man pushing a cart full of souvenirs he had been selling.

Thought I'd check out Parliment Square to see if there were any protests going on, and indeed there was one small protest about wanting Democracy in Lybia. The passion and enthusiasm of the people protesting and shouting the chants was quite inspiring.

After my little photo-journey around Southbank/Westminster I headed to Kings Cross to meet Sarah Page, a friend of mine who is a Photographer/Filmmaker, she was in London for the weekend filming part of a documentary she was making. It was great to meet up with her and catch up with all she's been doing and I was able to share with her a little about what I've been doing. 

London can be such a lonely place despite the fact it is full of people, so it has been nice to see a familiar face!

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Lost Film & Polling Stations. 27th October.

I took this photo back in April when I was in London for a friend's birthday. A couple of weeks ago I found the roll of film containing this photograph on a shelf... so I finally got it developed today! I'm a little annoyed that I waited so long to get it developed as the photos have, but I'm still happy that I've found a whole load of lost photographs. 

I'm scanning in a few rolls that I got developed today, so the scans may be uploaded sometime soon.. either on here, my website, or facebook (look below for links). 

It was voting day in my little town on Thursday, this small parish hall was garbed in "Polling Station" signs, definitely thought it was worth a photograph!

I'm off to London tomorrow to start at Rankin on Monday, quite excited.. I aim to blog daily if everything goes to plan.

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On the way to St.Pauls. 1st November.

So once again I was in the big city of London! The main reason for this trip was to take some architectural photographs for a brief... but alongside the brief I did a little bit of personal work (including today's photograph) and worked some more on the Occupy London Stock Exchange protest. 

I took today's photograph when walking from the Tait Modern (where there are currently a couple of great photography exhibitions!) to Lloyds, it was quite busy and I think that helped bring life to a much photographed scene!

The architecture photograph went well, and I shall upload the photographs to my online portfolio when they are done, I also shot the exterior of the Lloyds building today using a 5x4 large format view camera, excellent piece of photographic equipment, got some interesting looks when I was using it! 

Photographs shall be coming in the future, have a busy week coming up.. but I will keep you updated!

Photojournalism: Occupy The London Stock Exchange.

I visited the Anti-Capitalism protest (also known as Occupy London Stock Exchange/OccupyLSX) outside St.Pauls in London on the 28th of October. My main aim was to document what was going on whilst staying impartial to the views of the protesters and their opposition. I found the protest as a very peaceful site with a really big feel of community, which hopefully comes through in the series of photographs.

The full series can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthjonesphotography/sets/72157627878315379/with/6291477032/

The Anti-Capitalist Rhino. 28th October.

As I said yesterday, I went to London today to follow up a brief and a couple of projects. One of my projects was to document a little bit of the Anti-Capitalism protest outside St.Pauls Cathedral. There is a line of metal barriers that have been put up by St.Pauls for the protesters to put messages on and this little message stood out to me, mainly because of it's creativity! I will work on the photographs in the near future and when they're up I will give you all a link to view them!