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I caught this chap walking over Vauxhall Bridge through the gap in some columns of a building that I was shooting. Complete bit of luck to capture him in particular as I had no way of knowing he was heading into the gap. I just happened to have the camera up and there he appeared. Luck plays such an important part in street photography.

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Back to my ongoing search for interesting London alleyways. This is a newly redeveloped area called Eccleston Yards, very near to Victoria Station, and something I just stumbled onto as I was walking from Victoria Station down to Battersea Power Station one day a few months back. It consists of a number of small businesses, a 'co-working and creative hub', and a pleasant courtyard with a couple of eating establishments off of it.
It's got a bit of history to it. This from Wikipedia:
"Eccleston Yards was previously the location of Eccleston Place Power Station, owned by Westminster Electric Supply Corporation Ltd. whom supplied electricity to the Mayfair & Belgravia area for the first time in 1891."

Nice to see a historic location like this get a facelift and make it relevant in the 21st century. It's also got a cracking alleyway!

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I've recently started shooting film again and this is from one of my first rolls that I had developed. I did also have the negatives scanned to digitalise them so that I could do some limited amount of processing on them. I cropped this from the original 3x2 aspect ratio and I desaturated it to make the blacks stand out a little more.

I'd like to extend my personal thanks to Nigel Sommerfeld, an excellent Australian photographer that works almost exclusively with film, for his patience and guidance and for answering all my newbie questions about film. His knowledge on the subject is astonishing and he always takes the time to explain the things that my small brain does not comprehend! If you don't know Nigel's work you will be positively delighted to see his photostream and I'd urge anyone who enjoys something a little different to check out his Xpan panoramic images. They are beautiful. His photostream is here:
flic.kr/ps/3SgU7o

This image:
Camera: Leica R6.2
Lens: Leica 75-200mm F4.5 Vario-Elmar-R zoom
Film: Kodak Portra 160

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