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Hi everyone. Sometimes I spend quite a while writing these fairly short videos, and sometimes the photos I include span many years.

However, I do enjoy just walking out of the house and spending a day somewhere - taking pictures, of course, and that single day being the story. I guess I've done a fair bit of that before, but it's something I'd like to do much more of.

Today I left the house at midday and got the train into London. I took with me my Fuji X-T3 and unusually for me I didn't take a prime lens. Instead, I thought I'd see how I felt just using the 18-55mm zoom.

As much as I often like to be in my own space, there's a part of me that has always loved being right where things are happening. At a big concert or historic event. Not always the obvious things, but events that mean a lot to me. Well, today in London it felt like a place that had things going on.

I took a walk around Westminster and saw the press and photographers huddled together outside Number 10 Downing Street.

The prime minister, Boris Johnson, had called an emergency cabinet meeting and was due to make a statement there later in the afternoon.

And outside the cabinet office there was the seemingly unfading group of anti-Brexit protesters. They shouted and sang and waved their flags. They're an interesting group of people. If you like people watching, there are certainly some people to watch there.

However, I was most interested in a protest outside of the Home Office arranged by Roger Waters. He was protesting the planned extradition of Julian Asssange to the US.

As a photographer, and as that person who likes being around ‘things happening’, this was a fascinating place to be.

I arrived early and saw the crew setting up the small stage. Press photographers were arriving and chatting about how busy things were outside Downing Street. The skies were grey, and the edge seemed to have been taken off summer.

As the crowd grew it became a wonderful place for street photography. There were happy concerned, angry faces. Flags and banners, stickers and leaflets.

First the journalist John Pilger spoke, followed by Julian’s brother. Aside from the specifics of the cause, the spectacle was so interesting to watch and to be surrounded by. There was an exciting energy at such a brief event taking place on a public street.


Roger Waters spoke passionately, he messed up a joke, and then sang Wish You Were Here. He said he often gets asked about the line "Did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage?" He said he didn't always know how to explain that, but that this was him choosing a walk on part. Something like that anyway.

Thanks for watching everyone.