Hello lovelies! If you follow me on Facebook or Google+, you know that I just got home from an extended business trip although I didn’t say where. I spent close to two weeks in London!
I won’t bore you with the business bit, except to say I spent many 12-hour days in the office feverishly working. On the weekends, I feverishly crammed in as much sightseeing as possible since I’d never been to London. (End result = exhaustion with a side of jet lag).
Although I was there for business, I toted my camera along and tried to work on how I take pictures. I love looking at travel pictures from other bloggers and secretly file away lessons I want to try on my next trip.
Just take pictures. That was my biggest mantra. I’m all about living in the moment but there are lots of times where I wished I’d taken the time to snap something. The carriage below was the first picture I took on the trip – it was rolling by right after I checked into my hotel.
Bad lighting: being winter, I battled the sun a lot. It never got too high up in the sky and set early. It created a lot of harsh light situations at places where I didn’t have time go to go back and get better pictures. I was barely able to get the Olympic countdown clock!
I experimented with getting more randomness, signs especially. I realized I love signs!
Of course there’s food. I feel like food pictures capture a lot about the trip.
Yes, I’m going to have to re-watch my Royal Wedding DVD and every other movie I own that’s set in Britain. I only now realized how many movies on the list I shared with you fit that category.
Almost Never Clever 
I am glad you enjoyed London. I can hight recommend you “Young Victoria” movie!
That is on my list! I need to watch it.
Awesome! Hope you had a great trip!
Thanks! So very tired still but it was a great experience.
So jealous! Looks like a great trip – time to start a new scrapbook…
Tempting! I’ve decided preliminarily to not go all out like I plan to do for vacations since this wasn’t really a vacation, but I’m definitely going to do something cool with it.
Oh fun! London was the first stop on my European whirlwind in 2010. Loved every single second I was there. I stood at that same spot and snapped big Ben with the London Eye in the background. Can’t wait to see what you will be doing with your photos! 🙂
I think I need to go back because I didn’t relax one second!
Never been there. Great pics! Love that British Library one 🙂
Thanks! It was my first time as well! I definitely recommend the library if you ever get the chance to go.