London Calling

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Fed up of being a house rat, I took myself on a photographic voyage around the West End. (Somehow I woke up at 10.20am and felt like doing something constructive with my day.)

I took the train/tube to Embankment, and strolled around taking pics (check out my Flickr page if you like), then I carried on up to Trafalgar Square. I popped into the National Portrait Gallery to check out the photography on show, then visited the nearby Photographer’s Gallery.

I carried on down Charing Cross Rd and popped into a couple of bookshops (only buying photographic postcards, no novels!). Then I traversed Tottenham Court Rd and turned onto Oxford Street. I was aching after walking for so many hours, so I got the train home at 5pm.

Here’s a portrait which I saw in the NPG that I really like. I had never heard of the performer Jessie Matthews, but I really like her pensive expression in this portrait.

Jessie Matthews

2 Responses to “London Calling”

  1. 1
    Young Miss Williams:

    I LOVE LONDON! No where else I’d rather live… you?!

  2. 2
    PJ:

    I’m a south London girl, I could probably live in another city for a while (I loved Tokyo and New York), but London is my home.