Shooting from the hip

[london1967]

This evening, partly inspired by an article about Lomography that Miranda sent me last week and partly by the "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera" exhibition at Tate Modern, I decided to walk from the office to Victoria station holding my compact camera at waist level and taking random pictures.

I clicked when I saw anything that caused a reaction in me without slowing down at all. 
I ended up with over 200 photos and I quite like the randomness, the strangle angles and how blurry some are. 
Plus I enjoyed the immediateness and the freedom of taking pictures of people without them being aware or posing (well if you are lucky enough to frame the subject). 

Here's a small selection of my favourites: 

Comments

[bazanges.livejournal.com]

Well all my photo,s look simlar to the last in your selection, rather blurred.
Hey Ho.
Ricardo xx

[london1967.livejournal.com]

Darling, you are producing art!! ;-)

Big hugs
Franco
xx

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

Men holding hands! We've been in Bulgaria for two weeks so I've forgotten what that looks like.

When I was young and lived in England I took plenty of pictures of unsuspecting people and some suspecting but just thinking I was weird, as you know. ;{)}

[london1967.livejournal.com]

Mind you, here it only happens in Soho/West End...

I don't know what you are talking about! ;-)

[nzguy1.livejournal.com]

Interesting concept...some I really like, but I'm not sure it's my kind of photography.

[london1967.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Al!
It was a fun experiment and I might do it again some time.
I was surprised that quite a few pictures turned out OK!