leigh van der byl

I attended the annual London Tattoo Convention over the weekend, and snapped quite a few shots of all the decorated people there. This man was doing traditional hand-tapped tribal tattooing.

I’ve always really liked this fabulous art deco building in Bloomsbury, behind the British Museum in London, leading onto Russell Square. It’s part of the University of London and is called the Senate House, and if it looks familiar to you, it’s because it was used as the Ministry of Truth building in the film adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four. I shot this on my FinePix x100, and did the mono conversion and processing in Silver Efex Pro 2 in Aperture 3. Have I mentioned that Silver Efex Pro rocks? Well, Silver Efex Pro rocks.

A recent upload, but an older photo – I shot this last year in Paris, France. It’s a quaint view looking across the Seine river, taken with my old Canon EOS 450D, and processed in Silver Efex Pro 2 in Aperture 3.