A Sunny Day For Some Science On A Southbank Soapbox
On Friday last week I had the pleasure of photographing an event called Soapbox Science. Soapbox Science is an annual public science communication event, sponsored by L'Oreal that transforms public areas in central London into an arena for public learning and scientific debate. The event follows the format of Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner, which is historically an arena for public debate. There were three separate time slots, each lasting an hour, with four leading female scientists standing atop their soapbox, talking about their area of expertise to any passers by that cared to listen. And many passers by did just that. Not only did they listen, but they also asked questions and engaged with the speakers a great deal.
Some of my favourite photos from the event, a couple of which I've added to my website's event gallery:
There is also a video on the BBC website which can be seen here.
Studio Photography
Last week I attended a training course on studio photography at the London School of Photography. It was a good course for someone who is just starting out in studio photography but for someone like myself with even a small amount of experience, it was a little straightforward. It did a good job of covering the basics though.
However, we did shoot a couple of models during the course - Fabiola and Jacob. Although Fabiola was very pretty, I found photographing Jacob more fun as he was a real character and had a brilliant sense of style.
Here are some of my favourites...
Tom Nichols, Doctor Who Super Fan
On Monday afternoon I found myself in a three bed house in Reading, taking some extremely fun portraits of a 22 year old chap called Tom Nichols. Tom is a massive fan of Doctor Who and has an enormous collection of memorabilia, including a full size dalek in his bedroom and full size tardis in his back garden!
The photos were taken for Wimdu, a couch-surfing site that allows you to rent people's homes when travelling instead of staying in hotels. Tom is hoping to make some money to help his local group of scouts.
They've been published today on page 8 of The Independent and page 19 of The 'i' too, as well as online on the BBC and Mirror websites.
Here are a few more photos you don't see in the papers or the press....
Ta Ta Maggie!
I got up this morning at the crack of dawn to head down to St Paul's Cathedral and ensure I got a good spot for the funeral procession for ex-Conservative Prime Minister, 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher. Love or hate her, she certainly drew a crowd as 2,000 people attended the funeral service itself and many thousands more lined the streets to wish her goodbye or good riddance.
Here are some of my favourite shots from the event - hope you like them!
