Shooting from a double decker.
This is a shot from a long time ago, the eighties. A great time to be working as a photographer in the heart of London. I then worked out of a studio in Tabernalcle Street in the City. In the same street there were almost another fifty photographers, and plenty of parties.
Digital hadn't even been dreamed of and maybe two photographers had a computer. The 5 x 4 and 10 x 8 inch plate cameras were what everbody used. Beautiful cameras that took an age to put together, set up on the tripod and get the subject in frame just as you wanted, and then putting a black cloth over your head to be able to see the (inverted) image enough to focus using a lupe or a linen tester.
In this pic I'm shooting from the top of a double-decker bus that we hired for the day to shoot a fleet of limos for one of the night clubs in Covent Garden. We photographed in the centre of Hyde Park Corner in front of the triumphal arch through which, rumour had it, only the Prince of Wales was allowed to pass. So plenty of Police permissions all round.