Londoners
The flowers spring over the hills And young beauties show their skills Talent skating with heels on wheels Modern day mermaids or Hermes to be Like a flash of quicksilver they glide While bemused believers on the sidelines sit still Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Sweet young thing texting A glimpse of Saturday Night in London The waves of would be weekenders Flowing around Leicester Square Station Halfway between Soho and China An orange dress like a crossed zebra Stopping the traffic… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
The surrealist bill posters of Chinatown Like fortune cookies unwrapped before our eyes Open-air museum with all the oriental scents and sounds Travel light and cheap away from almost normalcy Waiting for the next wave under the necromancer’s rule Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
The beauty of luxury cannot be left to a silver spoon As for the Bamba it is a matter of grace Pump up the volume, switch on the inner lights And let’s glide away on the wing of a dream Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
One step way from virtual reality Young beauty, influencer to be Aspiring climber of the social media ladder Wooing Instagram for a few grams of fame A kingdom where dreams are measured by the pixel We all look for happiness But we call it by its other names… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
Londoners celebrate the minimalist freedom The pints follow the pints like a carrousel But this momentary elation comes with many ifs and buts The hangover may last longer than the inebriation As Frida Kahlo so justly said in her painful life ”I tried to drown my sorrows in alcohol But the bastards learned how to […]
Girls just wanna have fun The new City of London School Celebrating the end of curfew The spirits are high In all respects Obviously… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
In the ersatz of freedom granted by the grandees Londoners celebrate alfresco with a few pints This allegro ma non troppo may be short lived But at least it was heart-warming in spite of the cold Dancing in the wind I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
No need to be a fashion guru to tell This is not London today Social distancing destroyed socializing For the many it was lockdown and curfews Except for the happy few Self-inflicted pain is the new standard Fear mongering does wonders Back in 2011 who would have imagined That it would be so easy to […]
Street photography is like angling for the goldfish Throw your line in the maelstrom of the crowd Snap a glimpse, the silvery flash of the catch As it tries to escape, you have to wade into the river Nothing will happen on the comfortable shores of platitude Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery