So what’s the big deal about this photograph? This was taken at Covent Garden more than two weeks before the UK went smoke-free…
This is where the man was standing and smoking his afternoon cigar. Notice the signboard on top of his head:
I have a couple of posts on London and around up on my travel blog Itchy Feet. I have just started a series of photo essays on ‘the streets of London’ – the first post is on Covent Garden. Check it out.
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London was going overboard with signs warning people against lighting up in public after July 1st . The other thing I noticed in London is that about tourist souvenirs have suddenly discovered partial coloring – ‘red’ seems to be official the color of tourist junk (fridge magnets and posters and the like) – the road is in black and white and a bright red bus suddenly bursts out of the frame, ditto with red underground signs and flowering trees. I did not much care for the London reds (I sadly associate grey with the city) – but here is my own version of selectively colored London – one evening when only two of the light bulbs were on near Tower Bridge.
Also read : the streets of London – 1
More photographs : London photographs on flickr