London in Mono (well almost)

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A quick walk to Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly netted some more images for the MacLean Photographic London gallery.

First stop was Trafalgar Square where I stopped to get some shots of the tourists enjoying one of London's most famous landmarks.  However it was the fountains and the statues that drew my photographic eye and with the Fuji X100 resting on the wall of the pool I took this long exposure shot.

Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 0.7s @ f16 - ISO200
Next stop was Piccadilly Circus and the colourful lights of the bill boards and the hoards of tourists surround the statue of Eros.  Again looking for something a bit different my eye was drawn to the London Underground signs that were brightly lit as the evening started to draw in.  I was going to do this shot totally in black and white but, like the image I took near St Paul's Cathedral last week, the red, white and blue colours deserved to be highlighted, so I left them in and just turned the rest of the image into a mono.

Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 1/180 @ f2 - ISO200
Walking down Piccadilly I came across the Piccadilly Arcade, a row of beautiful shops under cover and lit.  The symmetry was perfect so I waited until there were no members of the public walking through and got my shot.

Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 1/60s @ f2 - ISO640
The final shot of my whistle stop tour was of a statue of Beau Brummell which stands at the south end of the arcade in Jermyn Street. Brummell a great member of the fashion fraternity, who really sums up everything that the great cloth industry in Jermyn Street has always stood for and still does today. 
Fujifilm X100 - 19mm f2 - 1/60s @ f2 - ISO2500

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