Cafeteria chairs
19.09.09
A slightly different photo this time. more abstract than usual. I took this one day in August 2005 when I went out with my camera for a day in the City of London. I worked in the City for nearly 10 years before moving to Spain, but it’s a completely different place at the weekend. Gone are the hordes of suit-clad office workers (like me Monday to Friday) to be replaced by wandering tourists carrying cameras (like, er, me on this particular day!). My main aim was to get photos of the architecture close-up, so I only took my 70 – 210mm telephoto lens. I got the tube to Liverpool Street and started at 30 St Mary Axe (aka the Gherkin), moving on via the old Nat West tower (ridiculously called Tower 42 these days) to the Bank of England. My wandering then took me to Holborn Circus, St Pauls, the Millenium Bridge and back towards the Tower of London – maybe I’ll post some more of the photos I took that day at a later date.
This particular photo was taken outside a cafe on Cheapside - I spotted the chairs piled up and thought they made a nice pattern. I didn’t really have the right lens on me for the job as I was travelling light so I’m pleased with the way it came out. I’d almost forgotten about it until a couple of weeks ago when I entered it into the weekly challenge on the BBC Photo Blog, “Viewfinder” – the theme was Metal. It was only second time I had entered and I was extremely pleased when it was chosen. Unfortunately, they haven’t responded to my suggestion that they publish the number of entries they get each week so I have no way of knowing whether it was a massive achievement or those were the only photos they received 
You can see my photo along with the others chosen here. I especially like the interpretation of the theme in the first one, nice bit of lateral thinking!
So there you go, as always I welcome your comments…
Taken with a Nikon D1X and a Nikon 70 – 210mm lens at 75mm. Shutter speed 1/80th sec, Aperture f/4.5
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