Caerphilly photographer Alex Drummond aka grrlAlex has a weekend in the big city…

In my other life as a campaigner for LGBT human rights I sometimes get to do the odd conference. This weekend saw me leave Caerphilly and head for London for a two day conference on Transgender health care. Taking the opportunity of being in London I headed for Picadilly and Covent Garden area to see what caught my eye.

The picture above was shot in Picadilly in the evening experimenting with slow shutter and frozen motion – the guy is lost in his phone as the world spins around him. The following day I explored the Covent garden area – here in the centre of a busy city a yacht chandler – established for centuries and somehow still finding a way to survive a changing world.

Another old and established business from an almost bygone era is this umbrella shop – the gold leaf signwriting is a rare sight these days.

In Russell Square, the renowned Hotel Russell is a fine example of victorian architecture with elegant and fine detail – its sister hotel, the Imperial designed and built by the same architect was demolished in the late 1960’s and replaced by a modern building in the 1970’s. Sadly, this one lacks the finesse and timeless elegance – how how its archetecture now looks hideously dated.

Most entertaining photography opportunity came on Saturday morning – on leaving my hotel I spotted a man wearing flying goggles and sitting on a motorised blue fur covered sofa – cant make that sort of stuff up – here’s Tony of Cummfy Banana – manufacturers of offbeat motorised vehicles

The conference went well and the trip to London was a rare treat to catch up with people and do some street photography just for the love of my art. Did a lot of walking and spent a fair amount of time on the underground – here then to close this post is Caerphilly photographer Alex Drummond doing a rare selfie…