The Snapping Bishop

A wander through London on a cold wet Saturday.

Its grey, its wet, the sunlight is non existent and a cold wing is blowing in from the Artic …. not a ideal day to attend a meeting with other photographers for a wander and jabber down through London last weekend. …As expected, the weather paid its toll on the interested and come the day all but the most hard core of photographers turned up to complete the challenge …that being, can you find inspiration to make pictures on such a drab and horrid day. … Hell yes, they all grinned, I’ll do my damndest

If you’ve ever had to work a scene, with the rain pouring down your lens and the viewfinder constantly smearing over, a lens change causes the sort of condensation you wipe from the mirror each morning and the weight of your camera bag increases as does the cold rain that runs down your spine … then you know, just how daft a bunch of passionate photographers must be.

The two shots above are some of my faves to the day, simply because I completed my personal challenge to make use of all the umbrellas that day.

For a change, maybe a moment of madness … Yep its Black and white.

The Photographers …Wet, and unusually caught not doing much photography.