These two gentlemen are accidentally tied to a video project I’ll be launching soon – so stay tuned – although these black and white portraits have nothing to do with the project itself.

The image above is of Gregory Tingay, a North London based artist and potter master. The picture was taken in the kiln room of his Archway pottery studio.

And here is my friend, actor and collaborator, Dan Robb, and his meanest look. In real life, he’s all about comedy and good films, not mean at all.

Both men will feature in the aforementioned video project coming to your social channel soon. Follow me on Twitter or Instagram to see when the videos launch and if you’re London-based you should love the films.

The crowds and the loneliness of the city.

London’s West End.

These are some of the pictures I took recently in and around Soho, Chinatown and Piccadilly Circus.

Here’s a brief video overview of the new functionality:

Right now, a few months before the system’s release, it’s impossible to judge how useful the feature will be, what its limitations might be, but as a mobile filmmaker and journalist I really look forward to it. And so should you if you’re into mojo.

The most obvious benefit to journalists working in the field would be the ability to record a FaceTime or a Skype interview and use the (hopefully) high quality footage straight away in whatever you might be filming or editing at that moment.

The video below seems also to suggest that, once recorded, the video can also be annotated.

The iOS 11 screen recording feature may also be useful if a journalist or filmmaker needs to annotate a map or an image, or indeed, another video.  There will no doubt be many other possibilities, let’s just wait till the feature is officially released.

I’ll update this post then.

At 6pm, as the bells of the nearby St Martin-in-the-Fields chimed, the whole square fell silent. It was a moving moment.

There was a heavy police presence, and a defiant atmosphere. The speeches by the Met Police Acting Commissioner Craig Mackey, Home Secretary Amber Rudd and London Mayor Sadiq Khan were short and greeted by applause from the crowd.

Candles were lit and the world’s media were there to show everyone London is not afraid.

The video was shot in London and Greece, but also features a couple of shots from the English coast.

Visually I’ve tried to keep the story simple and not to detract from the song itself.

I know this song is doing really well and I’m hoping Jens’s fans – and everyone else – will also enjoy the visuals too.

The intensity of the deluge was incredible – and it took many people by surprise. Including me.

But I also saw a brilliant opportunity to take a few pictures of the mayhem – and mayhem it was as the rain turned into hail sending ever more panicked Londoners and tourists alike in search of shelter.

I took out my camera, which at that time had a manual focus 85mm prime lens attached to it, and started shooting both the traffic as well as the pedestrians. With no umbrella or anything to protect my camera.

I threw my scarf over the top of the camera and – trying to avoid running people and double-deckers going through puddles – tried to shoot as much as I could. Manual focus right there right then wasn’t ideal (my camera was prepared for some filming later on), but we managed.

And a bonus shot. Ever wondered how pigeons shelter from the rain?

Here’s how:

And don’t be fooled by the sunshine and dry-looking wall. It did stop raining literally a few seconds before I took that picture.

See more of my street shots: in colour and black-and-white.

Here are a few pictures I took over the past few cold weeks in and around Central London. See more on my Instagram profile.

Earlier this year we had a chat and I convinced Rupert to tell his story on camera. It’s an incredible story of personal drama, adversity, persistence and vision.

This 6-minute short documentary we filmed with Rupert barely scratches the surface. His life story – out of necessity shortened here to just a couple of minutes and originally told in vivid detail and with true emotion – would be sufficient for a much longer film, perhaps even a feature. His vision for the future of the public health service is informed and shaped by his past experiences. And in itself it would make a great full-length documentary.

I hope Rupert’s next dream – a TED talk – materialises soon and helps him spread the word about his work even further.

For now, I’ll leave you with this incredible and very personal story told by a man who’s trying to use his own past to change the future.

The Disease Service from Michal Dzierza on Vimeo.

So for my second visit I chose a quiet(ish) afternoon. I skipped the art though.

Instead, I tok a few pictures of the gorgeous lines, curves and angles this rather stark-looking building has to offer.

Using just one 28mm lens on my Sony A7R II, I took several pictures of the interior sans the visitors. Here are my favourites. Enjoy.

You can also see them on my Facebook page (and while there, why not like it to see more images and films as and when I upload them ).

Outside the exhibition however, in the V&A garden, I spotted Elytra.

Elytra is a “Garden installation by architects and engineers at the University of Stuttgart is inspired by the forewing shells of flying beetles known as elytra and constructed using a novel robotic production process.”

There. And this is what it looks like:

Spotted the random legs in the last picture? Well, they were everywhere today: