The two that started it all...

Now that the rather long winded introductory post is out of the way I can get down and dirty with the nitty gritty...so to speak. It's time to get the pictures off of my Samsung (last plug, I promise) and out and open on the wide plains of the internet. I'll start where all good stories, and picture based blogs, should and that is at the beginning:

This is the photograph that started it all, if I had not walked past it that day the idea would have never struck me and I'd probably be in bed now rather than typing this up. I found this on the corner where Farringdon Road meets Rosebery Avenue right by the Mount Pleasent sorting office. It was only by chance that I had ended up down that road in the first place, I was trying to find a backroad to Kings Cross station but missed somewhat and ended up at Chancery Lane. Luckily the route I took led me right past this and I was able to get a half decent shot before the crowds wanted me out of the way.




This handsome fellow I found on the shutter of a shop in Exmouth Market. Again it was a matter of chance that saw me finding this piece. I had seen the road when I found the "Cashmachine Girl" on Rosbery Av and some of the buildings had attracted my attention. As I walked down the road I kept my eyes out for a shop where I could grab a bite to eat or a coffee shop that didn't have a queue stretching out of the door, sadly I could find neither but near one of the cafes I spotted this guy. The original picture taken of this was not great, I felt the need to hurry as the locals were giving me funny looks. On a later review of the picture I decided that it was not up to par and that I would have to take another, that lunchtime I went back to the spot only to find the shutter had been raised and the shop was doing business. Shocked at the blatent disregard shown towards my interests by the shop I left for home, to return the next morning and triumphantly take the picture you see before you.

Next time: The Clerkenwell Road gang.