London Photowalk 2

2nd edition to the London Photowalk series. Its now the spring of 2011, sunny blue skies and beautiful flowers blooming. One of the best traits of London is the royal parks, which are so well maintained and serves as an escape from the bustling London life. The pictures above are from 2010 spring, along with a few shots taken during the winter.

The shot above was from the Sherlock Holmes premier in Leicester Square, London. It was during the winter of 2009, and a few of us camped out for a few hours to get a glimpse of the stars. It felt like it was just last month, we were standing there in the cold. Sigh, how time flies.

One of the pictures from Borough Market, London. For me, the coming of spring is trailed by stale, watered down coffee and hours of the day indoors. Exams are usually around this time and this is usually when I start drinking cheap instant coffee, just to keep awake and keep going through the night.

Above, the birds at Hyde Park. I've been going through quite a few photoblogs and travel journals. Properly documented, the travel journals serve as a great memoir for you to go back and relive those memories. Complete with interesting, catchy captions and narration, you can really go back in time with the photographs.

Picture above taken by a friend, an architectural student. It is a very fitting picture of spring in my opinion.

Anyways, with the exams looming I won't really be able to post a lot, not that I have been updating a lot. I have a huge backlog of photographs and travels to share, and hopefully I'll be able to post on a frequent basis then. 

Picture above of the friendly neighbourhood cat, London. Enjoy the rest of the pictures! Below are 2 of the scenes from Regent's Park and Borough Market.

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London Photowalk 1

After getting a DSLR, I've been taking a lot of photos, about 8 gigs after about 7 months. I've never really uploaded my pictures, just a few occasionally on facebook when I'm harassed to do so. Considering it's the exam season, and I need a healthy stress outlet, I decided to work on this photoblog (after months of procrastination) during whatever leisure time I have.

Well, this is the first edition of the London.Photowalk series! Photowalk series are a bunch of random pictures of my extended period of time at a place; in this case London.Photowalk to me, means exactly as the words literally say; photography walks. Just me and the camera walking about.

I kinda like the name photowalk, and the idea for the name photowalk came from a blog I frequently follow, dannychoo.com. Was always fascinated by the photographs posted, and I wanted to share the same fascination I had. I also like the concept of how boston.com tells its photo news stories. I guess I'm trying to go for something similar to it.

The first five pictures of this photowalk is of Caffé Concerto at Regent's Street, London. Went here on an outing with 2 lovely ladies for some cakes and hot drinks.

Beautiful cosy place, with one of the most wicked hot chocolates I've ever had. Extremely chocolaty with the smooth rich taste. The taste is quite good surprisingly considering no sugar was added.

It was just early winter, and we would have short moments of sleet, especially at night. I'm currently staying at tower hamlets, one of the boroughs in London. Tower Hamlets is one of the designated boroughs which will be hosting the London 2012 Olympic Games. I hope I'm still in London when the Olympic Games are here.

Initially my housemates and I were quite worried to be moving in to this area. It was extremely dodgy looking, although not as bad as the Hackney area, which felt as though we would get robbed any moment. Must the the exaggeration from the media and so on.

But after living in this part of London for 7 months, thankfully it has been incident free. As long as you respect others and stay out of trouble, no trouble (or not much) will come your way. Really enjoying the place, as our neighbourhood has a Mega-huge Sainsbury's 3 minutes away.

Picture above taken at Primrose Hill. It was an outing to see a comet/meteorite, but the skies were empty except for the occasional air planes. Still, it was not a wasted experience, quite fun just hanging about in the freezing winds with my mates.

Well, I won't be doing a lot of commenting; so I'll drop you off here. I particularly like the last photo, it was displayed above a cinema. Enjoy!

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