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A Millenium of ghostly figures

A Millenium of ghostly figures

Like most of my pictures this is a largely unedited photograph - beyond a crop etc.

Taken on a cold and chilly February night on the Millennium Bri...
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Like most of my pictures this is a largely unedited photograph - beyond a crop etc.

Taken on a cold and chilly February night on the Millennium Bridge and facing St. Pauls Cathedral I had in mind a photo devoid of people and life. What I took contains the ghostly figures of people in their movement through life.

In 2014 I bought my first mirrorless camera as a result of having inherited a little money for which I wanted to have something to remember good times. I replaced the camera in 2015 with an Olympus OMD-M1.

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OLYMPUS E-M1

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Aperture 18/1 ISO 200 Shutter 50/1 Focal Length 12/1

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Aug, 2016

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