150 Secs In The City

Hat tip to my friend Vic for coming up with the title to this post.  He visited me last weekend for our annual pilgrimage to the Great British Beer Festival.  The next day we went back into London to take some photos.  Vic hadn't seen that much of Town over the years, other that the route to Olympia and back, so I took him on a photographers grand tour.  We started in Shoreditch, walked through the City, crossed the river and finished on the South Bank.  The light was good with plenty of moving cloud, so we spent quite some time in the City, shooting 10-stop images at jaunty angles.  Despite our big cameras and bigger tripods, we were, surprisingly, not bothered by security guards with Napoleon complexes shouting about potential terrorist threats and building copyright.  Maybe it is the increased tourist attention that the headline buildings are drawing.  Or, the ubiquity of 'togs with 10-stop glass.  We weren't the only people sporting Mr Lee's finest  that day - although the two guys with OM-D's and gorilla-pods were a little more discreet.  Whatever the reason, it seems that the City's peaked cap and earpiece set have become a little more relaxed.  If only the same could be said of Canary Wharfe.