Bluebells

I spent 4 hours today as a steward at the current Royal Photographic Society London Region exhibition. It was great to have the opportunity for an in-depth review of the images and to meet so many members of the RPS and of the public. Two of the images were by members of my photosoc and 5 of us had panels in the project section.

Afterwards I went on to Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (known locally as Bow Cemetery) to take shots for the next RPS project: the Magnificent Seven (i.e. the 7 great early Victorian cemeteries of London). Bow Cemetery was opened as a cemetery for the City of London and the East End in 1841 and closed to burials in 1966. It is now a community park and nature reserve. I set off looking for graves of different nationalities to show the waves of immigration into the East End. But it was such a glorious Spring day that I quickly got distracted into taking pictures of butterflies and blackbirds and bluebells.