Well this is a special, relatively impromptue, photo walk thanks to an incredible offer from the lovely people at Altitude 360 in the Millbank Tower. They are offering free access to the viewing gallery (stunning 360 views of London) a PRIZE for the top three photos from the walk and a bottle of Champagne for the winner too!

The View from Altitude

Basically Altitude is the top floor of the Millbank Tower. They have been running a ‘viewing gallery experience‘ whereby you get to look at some of the stunning views they have over London whilst a guide takes you round.

The winning three pictures will be chosen by Peter Kerwood from Altitude in the week following the walk so get your pics in fast. The top shot will get £100 and a bottle of champagne, second £75 and the third choice will have £50! Choices will be announced on Twitter, Facebook and here so watch this space.

We will meet at the bottom of the Millbank tower at 12.00 midday. Here’s a Map showing the exact point. From the meeting point we will walk around the pimlico area until 13.30 when we will come back to the Millbank tower and go up to the top floor!

Here is a google map of the area, you can add points of interest to the map so that we can visit them on the walk: EDITABLE MAP So if you know Pimlico at all then please add some POI to the map!

Wow, what a cracking photo walk! I don’t think most of us knew what a brilliant subject Canary Wharf would turn out to be.

Despite rain at the start of the walk we still had a great turn out, and those intrepid enough to brave the weather were well rewarded – the sun shone through breaks in the cloud giving stunning evening light on the sky scrapers. Oh and don’t forget ‘that sunset’

Thanks again to one of our photo walkers – Chris Beach –  for putting together a map showing where some of the best points of interest were. We’ll leave it up here in case anyone else wants it. Chris’ Canary Wharf Map

A really great selection of images to choose from again this walk, so here goes… Our winning pic is…… RPY_3616solar by Kunaal Gosrani

Congratulations Kunaal, really stunning shot, we love what you’ve done with the post production, looks like something from a Sci Fi film.

RPY_3616solar by Kunaal Gosrani

Other top shots from the walk:

Time to go to Work! by Xerophytes

webIMGP1454 by Guipas93

Canary Wharf through a Crystal Ball by Henry Stuart

Canary Wharf (3) by lsim001

RPY_3665v2 by Kunaal Gosrani

Location: The Thames and Embankment.

Meeting Point: Victoria Embankment, Blackfriars, Millenium Pier 19.30

It was another great turnout last week for our Night Photowalk with some of our regular photowalkers but great to see so many new faces.

Despite it being a cloudy night and not able to get any sunset shots, the night shots collated are superb. Well done to everyone who patiently waited for the sun to set (around 9.00pm) to catch the Houses of Parliament in a glorious golden light.

I saw some great images on the evening which are still stored on cameras somewhere. Please share your images with everyone on Pix.ie as we appreciate every image taken, even the ones taken an iphone!

Meeting up in Battersea, 8 miles away was a bit ambitious but well done who made it to the revised pub in Vauxhall. We’ll keep the walks a bit shorter in future!

Well it was a very tough choice for our favourite shot this walk… So many stunning images, London really is hard to beat at night. We thought though that for it’s striking composition, simplicity and originality this was our favourite shot, BIG Ben by Xerophytes.

BIG Ben by Xerophyte

Our other top shots from the walk were:

IMG_8119 by Chris Beach

Over There 1

Westminster Bridge by Paul Clarke

20p by Xerophyte

Forward by 303DB

It was a scorching hot day for our May photo walk, pushing 30 degrees! Despite that (knowing mad dogs and Englishmen… because of that!) we had another cracking turnout with people again travelling from all parts of the country to join us for the walk.

Big thank you to the Old Royal Naval College who kindly gave us permission to photograph inside the stunning Painted Hall.

Another really strong field to choose from again as we try to decide our photo of the walk and other top shots, well here goes…

(If I don’t have your full name or the photo name, please email me the correct details

Our photo of the walk again, is by Chris Beach! Congratulations Chris on this cracking shot that sums up the fun in the park and puts it in the context of the location with the observatory looming in the background:

IMG_7165 by Chris Beach

Here’s our other favourites:

No Congestion Charge for Dogs by CDLCreative (Steve Hutchings)

DSC_2159 by Abdallah Adlan

Snoozing in the sunshine by Mikey Fletch

Disco Dad by Mikey Fletch

DSC_2255 by Abdallah Adlan

Queen's House, Greenwich by CDLCreative (Steve Hutchings)

IMG_7126 by Chris Beach

The Painted Hall by Henry Stuart

Down the Hill by Erin Allen

It was a stunning day for the walk and our best turn out yet!

Camden turned out to be a great choice for a photo walk, inspiration from all angles.

Really lovely to see so many new faces (and serious talent!) joining us on the walk.

The usual task of picking our favourite shot and top 5 (always seems to turn out to be top 7/8 ) has been made particularly tough this time thanks the the high standard of photography.

So…. drum roll…. Our photo of the walk this week is… All You Can Eat by Chris Beach!

All You Can Eat by Chris Beach

Our other top shots from the walk were:

London's Sartorial Vernacular by Art Conaghan

 

Scooters by Maynard Case

Leggy by Erin Allen

27 by Della (What's your full name?!)

Gothic Lounge Suite by Art Conaghan

Please Don't Photograph the Art by Marcus Macinnes

Jesus Visits Camden by Dasha Caffrey

Chinese Anyone? by Henry Stuart

As you can see we chose rather more than five again… Hey ho!

It was grey, wet and cold and yet we got some stunning shots. Moody skies abound in this walks round up – showing you can get inspiration from the dullest of days.

We walked along the serpentine, crossed the river and headed for the Albert Memorial before the weather getting the better of us and retreating to the pub!

Great to see some more new faces this time with Will, Tim and Rupert all joining us for their first walk.

Again another tough week to decide our fav shot but Pix.ie helping by voting one of Mikey Fletch’s shots as photo of the day!  This is also the second time that Mikey’s been our pick of the bunch so he’s our most decorated walker to date Congratulations Mikey!

Our top shot (and Pix.ie’s photo of the day) – Take-Off by Mikey Fletch

Take-Off by Mikey Fletch

Our other favourites from the walk:

Reflections in the Sky by Henry Stuart

IMG_4119 by Rupert Shanks

Pigeon Chase by Kelly Baker

Kelly by Mikey Fletch

The Getaway by Henry Stuart

Spotted by Mikey Fletch

Well it did not snow in the end and mercifully did not rain either! My hands are still frozen in the shape of a camera though.

We had a fantastic turn up, fifteen of us at one point!

We loved seeing all the funky different styles of cameras people brought – we even had a vintage Polaroid (see pic below)!

Brick Lane proved a great location, plenty of interesting people and places to point a camera at.

Don’t forget to upload your photos after the walk to our Pix.ie photo group so we can see all the shots and keep a record of the walks: London Photo Walk Upload Page

It was a tough call for our top shot this walk but with the help of Pix.ie’s founder Marcus Mac Innes we’ve chosen the following…

Here’s our pick for favourite shot – The Red House by Fern Ross

The Red House by Fern Ross

Other favourites from the walk:

Photo Walker Armed with Polaroid by Henry Stuart

Unwanted Paper by Chris Beach

Garbage Muncher by Mikey Fletch

Photo Walkers by Chris Beach

Brick Lane Grafitti by Kelly Baker

Let it All Out by Henry Stuart

Got a Dollar Will Buy by Fern Ross

Ring Me by Henry Stuart

Aliens are Watching by Mikey Fletch

Service with a Smile by Chris Beach

We could not have chosen a more miserable, wet day for the first photo walk! So well done to the ruddy team that turned up and put a brave face on things, looking at the pics it was certainly worth it.

It was such a fun day and so great to meet everyone, chat, snap and walk.

We ended up spending half the time sheltering in pubs/bars and the other half walking up and down the Southbank.

We ended the walk with a trip in the fantastic London Eye. Big thanks go to Anna Brown and the London Eye team for kindly donating a pod, it really was a memorable way to end the first photo walk.

Here’s our pick for favourite shot – Too Wet to Fly by Mikey Fletch:

Too Wet to Fly by Mikey Fletch

Nice one Mike, made a lot of people laugh!

Other top images:

Pierced Lady by Chris Beach

S.P.L.A.S.H by Henry Stuart (Thanks for getting wet Mandy!)

Take Off by Mandy Mahil

Wet Eye by Chris Beach