Northbank Restaurant with Business Junction and surroundings

 Last Thursday I went to the Northbank Restaurant, tucked under the Millennium Bridge for a networking lunch with Business Junction and took my still quite new Leica M9, this time with a 15mm Voigtlander F4 lens along for the ride.

I photographed some views of the bridge, us being warmly welcomed by Tracey Howes of Northbank Restaurant, for what proved to be an absolutely delicious lunch with some great wine and a good bunch of people to network with. I left with one request to quote for a photoshoot in the City and at least four new contacts who might lead to new business for me or prove useful as referrals to colleagues who might need their services.

On the way back to the tube station I photographed a lad practising jumps on his skateboard, and shot two moody views of a bridge over upper Thames Street. More of these pictures can be seen in a slideshow.

Photos taken on my way to the Designer Breakfast on 23rd September, then ...

I decided to take my Leica M8 to this months Designer Breakfast held at BBH's offices and chose to start snapping as I emerged from Piccadilly Circus Underground Station and keep snapping all the way to Kingly Street.

Knowing I have an assignment coming up involving compositing three shots to look like one for a client, I decided to have trial run on the street and several quick fire sequences of people passing in front of interesting spaces. Back at the office, firing up Lightroom 3 I exported the sequences to layers in CS5, then aligned the layers and used the rubber tool to reveal each position of the wandering folk on the layers above them - voila - magic!

Sebastian Conran, proved a fascinating and entertaining speaker

 and with my appetite for design whetted, I headed off to Borough market for sustenance, the Clerkenwell for a Business Junction networking session, continuing to snap on the way.

You can see some of the resulting images in the slideshow.

Juggling at the Circus Space

I recently attended a networking lunch organised by Business Junction at the Circus Space in Shoreditch the only world class facilities for circus training and production in the UK. We started by all having juggling lessons and not just on one's own! then went on to lunch. I shot these enterprising networkers practicing during that lunch period with my Leica M8.

I made some good contacts and now need to juggle my diary to fit everyone in!