September 12, 2004
I dedicated the day to taking some of the London photos I've been yearning to capture...gasometers, dripping chickens in a Chinatown shop window and the awesome Battersea Power Station. I got off to a cracking good start near St. Pancras where 4 bus drivers were chatting on the sidewalk. I looked rather conspicuous with the tripod hanging off my photo backpack and the Canon digital SLR dangling from my neck. The drivers politely moved to the side to let me pass, and as I did one of them said, “Do we get our picture taken?” They posed, I shot, we all gleefully looked at the results on the monitor and another one of them asked, “Have you ever had your picture taken in the driver’s seat of one of these buses?” And so it happened.


These blokes were great and the encounter made me smile for hours afterward. You can meet some of the nicest people here in London. Around the corner at King’s Cross, however, the population was rather more concentrated with unsavoury types.