Category Archives for London

Late November London skyline

Fortunately high enough to see London looking glorious with the sun low in the sky a couple of days ago, though unfortunately, through some grubby windows. The skyline looking East changing pretty rapidly at the moment. Looking West, Battersea power station looks as iconic as ever, though with redevelopment there under way, that too likely to change.

2 Prime Ministers and a Senate meeting

Another interesting job last week courtesy of the House of Lords. The Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, spoke to members from both houses in the Robing Room, possibly the goldest room on the planet (making the recording of accurate skin tones a challenge!). Was very interesting to see the dynamic of British PM, David Cameron, and the leaders of the other parties, Ed Miliband  and Nick Clegg, chatting very informally before and afterwards. The following day I covered the annual meeting of the heads/speakers of the Senates of Europe – i.e the House of Lords equivalents – and shot the official group photo, in a room full of mirrors, remembering to duck down at the last minute to avoid getting in the picture myself..

The craic was good..

Some fun shots from last night of a particularly jolly Irish Society getting their St Patrick’s day celebrations in early.

Aung San Suu Kyi addresses MPs and Lords in Westminster Hall

A shoot from last year before I started this blog, but worth putting up as pretty memorable. I was quite a distance from her, struggling with an immense 500mm lens for most of it! Interesting to see Labour leader Ed Miliband chatting to the then Tory chief whip Andrew Mitchell, who has since been forced to resign over ‘plebgate’

Vaguely related royal story

An excuse with the Will and Kate baby shenanigans to dig out one of my fave shots from the Royal Wedding day – got a really great set of pictures that day, which I should have done something with by now! will put some more up when get round to it.
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