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The dinosaur pretty much summed the whole fiasco up.

Blackfriars Bridge is quite known for being a poorly designed bridge (in the sense of infrastructure), especially when it often result in the death of people causes by motorised vehicles.

Recently TfL decided that it should be more like a small motorway instead by ignoring the need of pedestrian and cyclists whom ironically enough used the bridge more than motorised vehicles by adding more lanes, removing bicycle lane, and putting the 30mph limit back (previously was 20mph).

That proposal mean it'll be even riskier for peds and cyclists alike just so someone could get home a couple second earlier in their cars.

The protest last Friday was due to finding out that TfL decided to ignored thousand of complaints, alternative proposal design and statistic, despite claiming they're listening to us, they decided to stick with their gun and use their original plan.

It been quite a while since I've uploaded a new photos in Flickr, actually scratch that, it been probably a year since I did a proper one (and by proper, I don't mind rummaging around looking for something to upload).

I was invited to a wedding not long ago in July, and it was my first one, I protest when they recommended me because I have little to no experience of how to deal with wedding despite learning a lots in college, most especially (and I cannot stress the importance of this) a wedding where there's almost no chance of getting a second chance of doing the shot, they like the photos I do, but that's it, it's frightening how much faith they put in me on something I've never done before, yet that is.

To make matter worse, I've never been to that church in Wales to able to make plan and figure out which location is the best for a group photos and the like until the day of the wedding, and was finally told what the bride wanted me to take during the wedding despite asking her a month in advanced.

See, this is one of the many reason why I protest, I even recommended them some decents photographers but they still said "oh you'll be fine".

I took just two cameras and barely enough film (6 rolls), digital SLR for tricky/general shot, and medium format SLR for general.

I think it's a stroke of luck that they want the wedding to be quite small, and only a certain amount of photos; the couple themselves, couple with family, a group photos, and photos of them signing the registry, other were extra such as this photos.

I succeeded, despite having taken only 10 or so photos, they were extremely happy with all the 10 photos, and I know there are wedding photographer who took 250 photos, or even close to a thousand simply because the couples want 'more bang for their money', and because 'it's a digital, shoot as much as you can'.

This is my favourite photo, it's not a great one, but that's why I love it, it's a wonderful reality to a typical wedding, and needn't be a depressing reality that everyone don't want to see, the boy on the wall, the families with their tiny point and shoot cameras, the young bride with the pink flower on her head, the bride surprised at the reception of people clapping, the confetti on the tarmac etc.

This photos tell a story, most photos I seen of other were mundane and homogeneous, which I try very hard to avoid, and it's surprisingly how easy it is to fall down that road.

So let see what's going to happen in the next few years.

Didn't spend much time at the Carnvial, didn't see much, didn't hear much, shitload of rubbish enough to fill the River Thames thought.

Human being really are pathetic viruses who's only interested in consuming.

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She does not like cutting down tree, so she decide to break twigs instead, it just sound nicer.