Last weekend I visited London as I wanted to look around the galleries
and museums and had an brilliant time, I arrived in London early Saturday
morning as I caught the train at 7am and caught the train home 7pm Sunday
night. In a two day period I visited Tate Britain, The National Portrait
Gallery, The National Gallery, Tower of London, National Maritime
Museum and British Museum. The main things I wanted to do in London was see the
David Bailey exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, see the Turner exhibition
at the National Maritime Museum and have a look around the British Museum. I
only took my 35mm camera and phone to take photographs on as it didn't want to
kart my heavy digital camera around and wanted to shoot mainly black and white
35mm . A key highlight of the trip was the huge pillow fight in Trafalgar
Square which I photographed, I went right in the middle of it taking
photographs and also shot some double exposures, I can’t wait to get back to
Uni and develop the film to see what I got. Other than the galleries (which I
will talk about in individual blog posts) highlights of the trip were seeing
Roman coins from the time of Emperor Nero and seeing marble statues of Roman
Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus from the Roman period. I also saw armour
belonging to King Henry VIII in the Tower of London, this was interesting as it
gives a sense of scale and shows his weight gain throughout his life. I wish I
could have stayed in London longer as I could only stay in each gallery for a
short time if I wanted to see everything I wanted to see.
Pillow fight in Trafalgar Square. (35mm photographs coming late April)
Marble bust of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in British Museum
Marble bust of Roman Emperor Lucius Verus in British Museum
Armour of King Henry VIII aged 23
