'PhotoWalks' Sept & Oct.

Just over two months left of this years program of PhotoWalks. 

We will be visiting the following locations: Sat. 6th Sept. Kingston upon Thames, Wed. 24th Sept. Portsmouth, Sat. 27th Sept. London - Blackfriars to Waterloo Bridge, Sat. 4th Oct. London - Charing Cross to Westminster, Sat 11th Oct. London - London Bridge to Bank, Sun 26th Oct. Winchester.

There will be PhotoWalks in Guildford on: Wed. 3rd Sept. Wed. 17th Sept. Sun. 28th Sept. and Wed. 15th Oct.

The program will hopefully restart in March 2015, but short PhotoWalks in local towns can still be run 'to order' over the winter period.

More details on: www.polypodphoto.co.uk  with most of the walks pre-bookable on the Hotcourses website. 

City of London PhotoWalk 22 March

A windy and cold day but with bright periods for the PhotoWalk from Tower Hill to London Bridge with a small group of attendees.

High contrast scenes made getting the exposure right, especially the skyscrapers against the bright sky. Frustration with trying to set up the options on a compact camera, menu driven settings not ‘intuitive’ and we had to resort to using the Auto setting.

There are lots of buildings and details of interest in the city and this walk has a mix of Victorian and period buildings, together with the views across the River Thames. The Shard looking good across the water but the ‘Walkie Talkie’ looms over the area around Eastcheap  - I don’t like this building, it’s too big, overpowering and the design is poor (especially the defect of focusing sunlight so that it melts cars and shopfronts!).

Some good photos taken en-route. The next London PhotoWalk is Backfriars to Waterloo Bridge on Sat 19^th April. See: www.polypodphoto.co.uk for details.