Last Friday I committed one of the cardinal sins of digital photography: forgetting to check the charge on the camera’s battery before leaving home. With the inevitable result – the camera died in the middle of shooting a bunch of images. Arrgghh!
iPhone to the rescue. And I actually quite enjoyed myself. I was back down in London in the King’s Cross St Pancras area where there has been massive, and still on-going, regeneration. Plenty to capture, in the station complexes themselves, and out and about viewing the hoardings around new buildings, and much else.
Most of the images in the gallery below have been added to my Instagram Feed – [andyhooker] for those also on Instagram.
Click on the first image to enter the Gallery and then navigate through.
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- Clever quote
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- The Gothic St Pancras from King’s Cross
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- A 2ft box with a key – within which there is Wi-Fi? Life gets curiouser.
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- The Planned Reality No 1
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- Here’s what’s inside the box – more or less.
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- The Planned Reality No 2
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- Picnic anyone?
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- King’s Cross
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- Fancy a Kerb?
LensScaper 
superb images..I haven’t been to London for ages…I don’t have much need now with video conferencing..I used to commute every week form Leeds/Bradford to Heathrow and I am so glad I don’t have to do it anymore. But I do like London…and these images are great! well spotted.
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Thanks James. I can get to King’s Cross in 40 minutes by train. My daughter’s office is just round the corner from there. Being retired I have all the time in the world to wander around with a camera. Five years ago I don’t think I could have foreseen how much fun I’d get out of images from London and other town centres. It’s completely different from the Great Outdoors but i find it hugely stimulating photographically.
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the hot dog quote is wonderful. I don’t use the phone much, but I have played with some very simple digital toy phones, and enjoyed myself. It’s a lot of fun, and we get to do interesting stuff. Thanks for sharing.
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Nice set of photographs. The planned reality images are unusual and should I assume that the way they are presented is a feature of an iphone app or have you edited two images together in that way? Best wishes, N
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It’s actually the hoarding in front of the building that features the advertising for the building – now nearing completion – that lies behind. So, in the one shot there is the ‘intention’ and the result. No fancy gimmicks – just two straight shots!
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Ah ha! And had I paid more attention to the photographs I could probably have worked it out. (I should have seen that they are boards – the seams sort of give it away!) I’m a silly old hector! I think I leapt to the conclusion because the iphone has many mad apps but I don’t have one to know anything about them! I like them more now I’ve had a better look and that I know you haven’t gone app crazy. Cheers, 🙂
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Those two do have the appearances of montages. I simply use Instagram. I save my serious manipulations for CS5 back home!
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Great story and photos! I love my iPhone – it is the camera I always have with me! It takes great photos and is easy to use “on the street”. LOVE the hot dog sign – made me laugh out loud!
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Thanks for your comment. I had to read the Hot Dog quote twice before I got my head around the twisted concept – very clever.
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I haven’t forgotten my camera recently but having the iPhone certainly can be a life saver Andy. Excellent images. I love the one of King’s Cross. The iPhone is leaps and bounds better than my first digital camera (D100).
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Thanks Len. Yes it’s astonishing how things have advanced in such a short time. And this is still an iPhone 3 – my daughter tells me I should catch up!
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I’m a Samsung Galaxy S4 man rather than iPhone, but I know what you mean. Nice images Andy, and using the phone to record them is quite appropriate – a modern, urban tool in a modern city.
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Thanks Paul. It’s a fun tool and it is so easy to use unobtrusively in environments where a proper camera is far too easily spotted and gets frowned at.
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Nice gallery, Andy. I’m going to use that hot dog quote.
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Thanks Ken. The Hot Dog is clearly, and rightly, the stand-out image – precisely for that very cleaver quote.
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I will just add my appreciation for your collection as the others have. You have done a nice job at looking for details that others may just pass by.
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Thanks for visiting John, and many thanks for your comment.
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You really knocked these out of the park Andy. Fabulous images.
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Thanks so much Edith, glad you liked them!
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What a great collection. You clearly were having fun taking these photos.
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Sometimes, you can rescue an opportunity from a disaster!
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