{"id":748,"date":"2004-09-01T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2010-10-24T19:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T18:49:31","slug":"748","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/748\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing the Tate Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"

London weather pays off!<\/b><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I invested an inordinately large sum of money in a new Nikon D70<\/a> dSLR camera and I’m happy to say that it’s starting to repay itself already!<\/p>\n

\"Tate<\/p>\n

A New York agency got in touch saying that they had a client who loved this abstract photo of the Tate Modern and asked if I could mail over a high res version of the file, with the deadline being Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the photo was taken on a decidely low res digital cam, but I suggested that if they were prepared to grease my palm with some extra spondulas, I’d go out and retake the picture.<\/p>\n

They agreed and then the stupidity of my offer sunk in. The original picture had a deep, blue sky behind it. This is London where blue skies can’t be guaranteed. Not even in summer.<\/p>\n

Thursday was crap weather. So was Friday. But when I woke on Saturday morning, the sun was out! So I rushed out of the house but by the time I’d got out of the tube, it had gone cloudy again.
Arse!<\/p>\n

In desperation, I took a load of rubbish grey photos, before sulking off into central London in a hissy fit. I hung about, grabbed some coffee and flipped through some record stores before giving up and walking up to Warren Street.<\/p>\n

And then the bastard sun came out again! I quickly legged it all the way back to the Tate, managing to grab only 20 shots before the sun vanished again.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Happily, I’ve just heard from the client that they’re well chuffed with the photos, payment’s on the way, so I’m going to have some beers tonight.<\/p>\n

Viva le D70!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London weather pays off! A few weeks ago, I invested an inordinately large sum of money in a new Nikon D70 dSLR camera and I’m happy to say that it’s … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tate.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-748","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}