Prince Charles at Cenotaph

[John_Nevill]

Its not often that one is in the right place at the right time.

I was supposedly in London today for the Canon EOS Discovery seminar, but didn't make it due to vanadalism on the underground trains, So I decided to wander and low and behold I find some Royals laying wreaths at the the Cenotaph service of rememberance.

Here's my favourite, showing some shared light-heartedness at the normally sombre event.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Amazing serendipity!


John, did you know the service was scheduled? What made you go there and was the place full of press? I'm impressed that you caught a human moment!

Who is with him and is there a big prtective cordon you shot over? Oh, what lens?

Asher

 

[John_Nevill]

Hi Asher,

No, I didn't know it was scheduled, just off the cuff.

I was stuck behind this crowd....mainly working for Reuters, well thats what the sticker on their lenses said.

Only had a 70-200 f4 non IS and had to up the ISO to 800.

From where I was standing, they all seemed to be using 400mm+ lenses and going for tight head shots. Shame really, I think it loses the ambience, but hey, that's what sells newspapers!

BTW, The lady on the left of the original image is Camilla.