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It was a great group, I think there were 15 of us in total. Some people I’d met before, some I knew through social media but not met and some I didn’t know at all. It was a real pleasure to meet them all. Sandeep did a great guest post on the PhotoWalk.Me blog about the walk, so I won’t go into detail as Sandeep has already done a better job.

Images

You can find more photos shot on the walk here on Twitter.

Below are some scans of shots taken with my Leica M6 and the Kodak Portra 160 donated by Kodak Alaris. I even managed to get a few portraits of everyone using my new (60 years old) Leica 90mm lens.

Myself and Sandeep(@givemeabiscuit) are doing it again, we have organized an informal Photo Walk in London on Saturday 21st April 2018. The difference this time is that instead of getting people to sign up through the blog, we’re using my new web app PhotoWalk.Me. We will be meeting at Costa Coffee near Camden Town Tube Station at 11:00 am, for a wander around Camden and it’s many markets and then down towards the King’s Cross area.

Please remember this is not sponsored by anyone, this is just a few friends meeting up for a walk, a chat, maybe a photo or 2, a spot of lunch and a couple of drinks.

Click here to sign up.

There is an order form at the bottom of the page, please fill it in and submit asap to secure your set of these limited edition photographs. If you want to donate more than the £25, please note that in the Additional Information box. When I receive your order I will send you a Paypal link for payment.

About the UK Solidarity Fund

The UK Solidarity Fund has been set up by the British Red Cross to help people affected by terror attacks in the UK, following the recent attacks in London and Manchester.

Eight people were killed and dozens injured after attacks in London Bridge and nearby Borough Market on 3 June.

Less than two weeks earlier, 22 people were killed and 119 injured at the Manchester Arena on 22 May.

The UK Solidarity Fund will help victims of terror attacks anywhere in the UK, in the first instance, in London.

Donations will ensure that victims and their families do not face short-term financial difficulties.

The Photographs

Prints for Charity

The Photographers

Thank you to all of the photographers below for letting us use their images, please follow them and visit their websites.

1. Thom Davies

Thom took this moody B&W shot with his Leica MP and 50mm Summicron on Ilford HP5+ pushed to 1600 near Bank. Thom can be found on Instagram(@135project) and Twitter(@135project).

2. Matt Parry

Matt took this fantastic colour shot at Leadenhall Market with his Olympus 35RC on Provia 100f. Matt can also be found on Twitter(@mparry1234) and on his WordPress site https://mparry1234.wordpress.com/

3. Ade Stock

Ade took this great shot of our very own Sandeep, looking very dapper as usual at St Dunstan in the East. Shot with a Nikon FE2 and Nikon 50mm AF-D F/1.8 lens on Kodak Portra 160 and lit with a Yongnuo 560iii flash and 560Tx transmitter. Ade is one of the hosts of the Sunny16 Podcast (can be found on iTunes and I assume any of the other purveyors of quality podcasts), he can also be found lurking on Twitter(@sunny16podcast).

4. Bill Bennett

This lovely photo of the Gherkin peeping out between Willis Building and Lloyd’s of London was taken by Bill using his Olympus OM-2 Spot with 50mm f1.8 lens on Agfa Vista Plus. Bill is on Twitter(@filmbloke48) and via his website http://www.bennett3.co.uk/photography/

5. Sarah Bedwell

Sarah took this beautiful square format B&W shot at St Dunstan in the East with a Yashica Mat 124g on Kodak TMax 400 at EI200. You can find Sarah on Twitter(@flameforcefive) and Instagram(@flameforcefive) and through her website http://www.flameforcefive.com/

6. Simon Bedwell

The only pinhole shot here was taken by Simon with a RealitySoSubtle 6×6 Pinhole on Fuji Acros 100. This was also taken at St Dunstan in the East. Simon is on Twitter(@simonbedwell)

7. Sandeep Sumal

This great shot of the Gherkin by Sandeep was taken with and Olympus OM1n on Oriental Seagull 400. Sandeep is on Twitter(@givemeabiscuit) and Instagram(@filmphotography.london), Sandeep also has a website http://www.filmphotography.london/

8. Tom Rayfield

Finally this great shot from Tom(I’m very jealous of this one) was taken on Agfa Vista Plus 200 at box speed with a Contax S2 and 50mm Zeiss Planar lens. This was taken on the Southbank. Tom is also on Twitter(@mr_rayfield) and Instagram(@tomrayfield) and his website is http://tomrayfield.com/

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The Proposed Route

Thanks go to Sandeep for coming up with this route for us.

Meeting point: outside Café Rouge, Hays Galleria.  The nearest station is London Bridge and Hays Galleria is just off Tooley Street no more than 2mins walk from the Tooley Street exit of the station.  Anyone not familiar with London let us know and we can provide more precise directions and a map.

Time:  to meet between 10:30am and 11am with the aim to leave by 11am.  Café rouge can serve breakfast and coffee for those that need it.

Route: We don’t plan on being too prescriptive here and hopefully the route is a good mixture of landmark sites and more street art places.

Starting on the Southbank by London Bridge we will then cross the bridge heading past Monument and visiting St Dunstans in the East (a very nice photography location)

From here we will head north through the city past the Lloyds building, Leadenhall market and the Gherkin.   We will then go to Spitalfields market.   This is where the street art part of the walk will take us on to Brick Lane and North to Shoreditch High Street then towards Rivington Street.

Lunch:

We do not plan to have a ‘formal’ sit down lunch venue.  We will however pass many coffee shops and sandwich places en route so help yourself.  That said we will arrange various meet up points & times so if people are slower/faster than others we know where to meet.  These meet up points are likely to be somewhere where you can get food, drink and a toilet break.

For the end of the day we will reserve a small area in a bar near the end of the route for those that want to wind down.

A few points:

It’s a group walk and we are totally open to suggestions or changes in the route. Also ideas for meeting points if you know somewhere in particular.   As we are doing this for a bit of fun and for us to get together there is no charge and as such no funded refreshments.

Fund Raising

Given the horrible things that have happened in London and Manchester over the last few weeks Sandeep and I thought it might be a nice idea to try and raise some money for the UK Solidarity Fund set up by the British Red Cross for victims of terrorism in the UK. We are still ironing out ideas and if anyone has any suggestions they would be more than welcome. What we are currently thinking of is asking those who come on the walk to submit one photo taken during the walk to be printed as limited edition sets of postcards and put up for sale. All proceeds from the sale will be given to the charity. If the printing costs aren’t too high I will cover the cost of printing and postage myself otherwise I may ask for a small donation towards the printing. This is all still in the planning stages so nothing is concrete yet. Also this is completely optional of course nobody will be expected to participate if they don’t want to. If you do have any ideas please leave a comment below.

Please remember this is not sponsored by anyone, this is just a few friends meeting up for a walk, a chat, maybe a photo or 2, a spot of lunch and a couple of drinks.

I will keep this post updated with new information as we come up with it and send out emails to those that register below.

The intended route can be found here.

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Sandeep
Simon Bedwell
Ade
Matt Parry
Thom Davies
Tom Rayfield
Rob Davie
Sarah Bedwell
William Bennett
Gary Williams

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