Brian the pigeon is somewhat of legend amongst the London bloggers and if you spend some time on his pigeon blog website then you will realise why!
The pigeon blog is exactly what it says on the tin, a blog written by a pigeon with various amusing pictures of London life and comical comments from our feathered friends points of view.
The pigeon blog has been featured in loads of places such as the Times, the Guardian, Time Out and even has an accompanying online shop selling all sorts of pigeon related …

Recently, a few friends and myself headed down to the Shoreditch Diner on Curtain Road which, as the name gives away, is in Shoreditch.
There’s a few of these diners dotted around London, which are mocked up in traditional Americana style complete with booth seats, malt shakes and chilli cheese fries.
Be warned though! Don’t head down the Angel diner hungover looking for a substantially greasy breakfast, as you will be horrifically disappointed. When I recently ventured down there with a head like a bear I ended up with a substantially lighter …

Although this exhibition has been and gone I still feel it’s worthwhile reviewing in an attempt to highlight how good the Somerset House events can be. It’s definitely worthwhile keeping up to date with what’s on, as shows can easily pass you by. Somerset House is also particularly appropriate for fashion lovers as it often features exhibitions along the fashion lines including past events like ‘Skin and Bones’, which studied the relationship between fashion and architecture. It is also of course the new venue for London Fashion week.
Norma Parkinson was …

Over the years I have had a few unusual flirtations with rock climbing, which have included dangling off a massive wall of ice in Peru, scampering up a free climbing wall in Greece and more recently donning a fetching t-shirt and taking part in a rock climbing competition in Mile End.
I wasn’t even aware the Mile End Climbing Wall existed until a friend suggested some rock climbing action as a birthday day out. The facility is situated close by to Mile End tube station on the central line and can …

Another nice little blog along the lines of Londonshopfronts.com this one isn’t solely devoted to shop fronts though and features all sorts of photos of interesting sites from around London.
The site is updated regularly and the photographs featured often vary in style in terms of colours and composition. Every now and again some black and white photographs will pop up which have a completely different feel to the normal observational shots.
The style of the photography on the site is very much observational and documentary and often features pictures of people …

All photos are used with permission from Spitalfields Life and the original source can be found here
Over the last few weekends whilst out and about in Whitechapel I have spotted a few of these great vans covered in graffiti. I remember also seeing them quite a lot, down the side streets in Bethnal Green. Mainly halfway through dropping off goods to the market stalls on Bethnal Green road. The vans in Whitechapel seem to roll in packs and are pretty much covered in vibrant graffiti and splashed with nearly indistinguishable …

Ok I know this is THIS Saturday but I only just found out about it! I don’t even class myself as a photographer but do enjoy taking the odd snap when out and about and have heard some rumblings about the government’s activities regarding taking photos in public. Having read some of the info on the events website (which is very nice looking) photographernotaterrorist.org I have decided as a lot of other people out there on the interweb that enough is enough! Also it could be a good opportunity to …

I have recently moved back to the Hackney area (which I love!) and was recently debating the plethora of famous names that seem to use the trendy East London district as some sort of branding exercise. So I did a little poking around on the internet and quickly realised that loads of famous people are associated with Hackney, having either lived here, having workspace in Hackney or being born here.
I have put together a little list of my favourite Hackney people (with the help of Wikipedia) and was surprised to …