We’re about to head out again. For the 4th year in a row, Chris is presenting at a visualization conference held in July in London (well done, Chris – congratulations!). Well at least, he’s presenting at the same conference that’s normally held in London. Last July, though,  it was held in France, because hotel space was difficult to arrange in London due to a rather large sporting event that was happening around the same time…

But the conference returns to London this week.  Although, the weather apparently is being borrowed from last year’s event in Montpellier, France, as it’s  supposed to be uncharacteristically hot in London all this week. Go figure.

Anyway, while Chris does his work stuff, I’ll do my usual bopping around. And, of course, I may take a photo or two. 😉 One thing I noticed this morning was that on previous trips I’ve taken a lot of photos of the fountain in Trafalgar Square; a few examples are in the gallery at the bottom of this post. What can I say – I find it a rather photogenic fountain.

And it’s not just me – in fact, that fountain has been a photogenic subject in London for a long time. Back in April, we saw an exhibit of 20th century American photographer Imogen Cunningham’s work. While her later work didn’t have much to do with fountains, she did visit London at the beginning of her career in 1910, and look what she took a photo of:

Imogen Cunningham: Trafalgar Square Fountain, 1910

Yup – same place, although if you compare the fountain in some of my photos you’ll see that it’s not quite the same fountain. However, I know there is more than one fountain in that square. So, I will be curious to see if I can figure out where she stood to take that photo, since her angle on the fountain and the angles I’ve used in mine are very different. Should be fun.

So, there will be a there will be a brief hiatus on the blog this week while I explore various venues in London. I’ll be back to blogging next week,  about my experiments with the fountain and whatever else I run across in London. See you then!