Royal Parks Half Marathon. London. Matthew Chattle Photography.

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An alien Smurf invaded the Royal Parks Half Marathon today. It was seen joinging the runners at the start gate and seemed to join the race. Nell McAndrew and Ben Fogle started the race as London was bathed in lovely Autumn sunshine.

I hope the Smurf did well before they caught it and took it away for examination.

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EDL march to Walthamstow Town Hall. Counter protest and police block their path. Matthew Chattle Photography

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A very tense day in Walthamstow as the march neared the Town Hall, but was diverted away to avoid clashing with the counter demo. Tempers flared [as you'd expect], shirts had mysteriously disappeared and language deteriorated, shocking it was. Couldn't everyone have gone out for a stroll in the park and had an ice cream? 

Slutwalk London 2012. Matthew Chattle Photography. Walking the Dog.

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Two police officers take a keen interest in this lady walking her dog whilst dressed in a typical dog walking outfit, typical if that is you are also marching for Slutwalk London 2012.

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Slutwalk London 2012. Matthew Chattle Photography.

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Slutwalk hit the streets of London yesterday,  a lively and also serious march from Piccadilly to Trafalgar Square to highlight the issues of rape and crimes against women. Women [and some men] and children of all ages attended.

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Merchant Navy Day London 2012. Matthew Chattle Photography

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I took some photographs at the Merchant Navy Day Parade in Trinity Square Gardens. A touching event to commemorate the loss of life on the many merchant and fishing boats lost during WW1 and WW2 and to the present day.

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London Met protest outside Home Office, Guardian newspaper 6th September. Matthew Chattle photography, Alamy news

Guardian Newspaper

The Guardian ran one of my pictures today of the protest by staff and students from London Met University [and how long will it still be called that?] that was held outside the Home Office yesterday 5th September 2012. Picture sale by Alamy Live News



Piccadilly Circus Circus. Hula Hoop. Matthew Chattle Photography

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The Piccadilly Circus Circus event closed the roads as the area around Piccadilly Circus was transformed into a wonderful circus. Trapeze artists, jugglers, high wire artists and the lovely Hula Hoop girl above entertained the packed crowds all day.

Julian Assange. Ecuadorian Embassy speech. Matthew Chattle Photography

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Julian Assange at the pulpit, sorry balcony talking to his followers [the press that is and his supporters] at the Ecuador Embassy in Knightsbridge. The press did outnumber his supporters, followed a close second by the police. 

David Cameron, Boris Johnson. London Paralympic cauldron lighting ceremony. Matthew Chattle Photography

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Prime Minister David Cameron enjoys a joke at his expense by Lord Coe [out of shot] at the Paralympic cauldron lighting ceremony in Trafalgar Square. Boris Johnson is sort of smiling and Jeremy Hunt is, well.....Jeremy Hunt. An uneasy set of characters but they all enjoyed the quite moving ceremony as Claire Lomas lit the cauldron.

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Here Lord Coe looks like he's said something he regrets and looks quite informal compared to the suits.

London Metropolitan University, outsource services to private firm. Matthew Chattle Photography

Those nice people at The Guardian have used one of my pictures of the quite grotty London Metropolitan University buildings at Whitechapel in East London, on the Guardian website. The University is going part private and outsourcing many services. Hopefully security won't be handled by G4S.

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The Ultimate Guitar Book, Dorling Kindersley. Matthew Chattle Photography

In what seems like a million years ago [twenty actually] when I was working for book packagers and publishers, I worked on the 'The Ultimate Guitar Book' published by Dorling Kindersley. I did about 80% of the photographs in the book and travelled all over the country photographing guitars of all shapes and sizes. I met a few rock legends along the way, John Entwistle [The Who], Steve Howe [Yes] and Ian Anderson [Jethro Tull] to name a few.

This was an unused section break, we did black and white shots but the publishers changed their minds and I re-shot close-ups of different guitars.

For each section there was an 'exploded' view of a guitar in bits, this was a beautiful hand made work of art.

The Ultimate Guitar Book

London 2012 Olympics. Matthew Chattle Photography. Olympics sponsors.

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The London 2012 Olympics are obviously heavily sponsored, they couldn't exist without them. Some people are very wound up by all this and there is plenty to be sceptical about. Some contrasts with the two pictures included in this post. And no I didn't set up the coke can, as a street/news/photojournalist I wouldn't do that [if I had I would have turned the can around]. But a nice juxtaposition between the Coca Cola can and the BMW official Olympics vehicle speeding down a 'Zil Lane' [another sponsor of the Olympics].
Nike by contrast aren't sponsors of the London Olympics, but that hasn't stopped them from finding an angle during the games to get some serious advertising space.

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