Ponsonby and Carruthers tour London after dark

[caddyman]

As I mentioned in my earlier post, Furtle and I spent several hours sauntering around the West End yesterday. The express purpose of the expedition was to take a few snaps of the Christmas lights while they are still up. Sadly, many of the snaps I took were beyond the ability of my little Cyber-Shot camera to capture adequately. That said, I expect that if I understood how to work it better, I may get more acceptable results, but unlike a number of my friends, I am not really into photography, so I have never really worked out how to get the best from it.

Be that as it may,


Carnaby St from Gt Marlborough St, dusk.


Liberty's from Argyll St a few minutes after dark


Regent Street, looking south


Regent Street at junction with Argyll Street


Dragonflies on New Bond Street


"What credit crunch?" Debenham's on Oxford Street


House of Fraser, next door


Third in the pecking order: silver is still classy


An Angel on Monmouth Street, Seven Dials


The Angel and the Two Brewers, Monmouth Street, Seven Dials


Seven Dials itself. Two hundred years ago, the site of one of the worst rookeries in London


The things you can buy: Coco de Mer, Monmouth Street, Seven Dials


Norwegian Tree and fountains, Trafalgar Square


Looking down Whitehall towards Parliament: the Clock Tower


In the Sherlock Holmes pub. A festive Hound of the Baskervilles


And the Sherlock Holmes pub itself...

Comments

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

Oh-MY-GOD! Is that even allowed? But yes, I'm sure everyone needs one of those Coco-de-Mers. Diverted by the "SALE", I nearly missed the "50%" discount!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Hehe.

I have slightly re-edited the post to make the pics a bit smaller and hide the 'offending' willies for people of a more sensitive disposition!

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

My tips for getting more from your little Sony:

First, hold it very very steady on night shots, if possible brace yourself on something. Second, You should probably be able to set it to central spot-meter which means that if you point the camera at the bit of the scene you want correctly exposed and half press the button it will meter (and focus) there and you can move the camera to frame the shot, then finish pressing the button to take the shot. Third, if it was me, I'd remove the date stamp, but you may prefer to keep it. Fourth, it might have a night-scene auto setting, mine does, and I've had some lovely results from that. Fifthly, I never use the zoom at night, you'll get better shots without it.

I am very amused at the coco de mer one!

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Flippin heck.

Judging by the times of your pics taken, in Monmouth St we only missed each other by a couple of hours. I went up to town to pick up my Grnadma's birthday prezzie nd check out the sales....

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

You went to Coco de Mer for a prezzie for your grandma?!!!!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

He's a strange cove like that....

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooooo I went to the classical muscic department in HMV on Oxford Steet but went there via the Cinema Store and Forbidden Planet, which took me past that shop in Monmouth Street. Which by the way, I'd never noticed before but on Saturday night there were two girls giggling while photographing the window.....I thought they were odd until I saw what was in the window...

Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it !