On a tangent, Cityco are a new organisation to me, but I rather like their work – they organise things like the free city shuttle buses and street cleaning and generally try to make the centre a better place and get people to go there. I hear they have their eye on King St, which is looking more and more forlorn these days, so good for them.
Anyway, back to the photography day. Cityco paid for a number of high-profile
So I wandered over on the very hot Sunday just gone, and met up with around 20 other shy looking people with big camera bags. Pretty much everyone had DSLRs, mostly much better than my entry-level Canon, but one couple did have point and shoots. I really felt for them as they sheepishly hid them in their pockets for most of the tour!
The theme Aidan had set was the changing and unchanging city, and we wandered around the
Still, it was good to get out on a sunny day and use my camera, and the photos I like the most are below.
If you prefer to look at photographs than take them, there a couple of good exhibitions on right now:
A World Observed 1940 - 2010: Photographs by Dorothy Bohm is on at
Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin is on at the Imperial War Museum North, and is showcasing 50 years of the world renowned war photographer’s work. Til 13 June
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