West India Quay DLR station July was a prolific month for me and my camera.  I shot 1,320 photos.

First, there was a street shoot around West India Quay and Canary Wharf, a workshop arranged by Wex Photographic and sponsored by Zeiss Lenses.  Reflecting in the heat This was coupled with a shoot with lovely model Mandy Woodford.  By the way, in the shot with Mandy and the passing bus, there was so much natural light that I couldn't get a slow enough shutter speed to capture the bus motion, even at f/22 and my lowest ISO.  So I added the motion blur of the bus in post-processing with Photoshop.

Mandy and passing bus Then there were some family events to shoot, including a school sports day.  I caught my 4-year old granddaughter Sylvia mid-jump with the aid of the pro capture mode on my Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mk. II. Sylvia jumps

Next, my friend Georgie (a.k.a model Pandora), whose wedding I shot last year, asked me to do a maternity shoot.  She gainfully waded into the stream in The Rye, High Wycombe, wearing a flowing maternity dress that she had bought for a snip on eBay, and which she discarded after the shoot.  Georgie ponders her daughter's imminent birth It had got rather mucky in the river.  (The truth: I took it home and laundered it.  It's fine!).  By the way, the baby, a lovely daughter named Taylor (great name!) has since been born and I'm off to shoot her later this week.

Helen Diaz Finally, a fun and productive studio shoot with the lovely Helen Diaz, at PoZers Studio.  What a month!