On Saturday 31st October 2026 after our visit to the St James’s Motoring Spectacle we walked up St James’s to Green Park Station.
From the RPS Artist Development 3 workshop, hosted by Simon Ellingworth, we had reviewed images from Daidō Moriyama. For the next session I planned to present some images of my own that paid homage to his style.
In the book, “Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs”, I had followed his conversations with the author about his methods and the resulting images. Plus in the Photofile book with his name I had looked closely at images from his earlier work.
So, after the cars and people on Pall Mall I put away my mirrorless camera and took out my Canon IXUS 75.
The IXUS 75 is a vintage camera released by Canon in 2007. It has a 7.1-megapixel 1/2.5-inch CCD sensor and 3x optical zoom (35–105mm equivalent, f/2.8–4.9). I haven’t used it for a long time (!) and the settings were now completely alien. I had set the camera to take JPGs sized to “postcard” which was 1,600 by 1,200 pixels.
My first image was on Pall Mall at the end of a row of cars.
Then I started snapping getting more comfortable holding the tiny camera and avoiding (hopefully) camera shake.
Then on St James’s.
The resulting images above that I snapped were much better than I had anticipated from an almost 20 year old camera.
Much to the horror (and amusement) of my colleagues I snapped my way up St James’s taking over thirty images. These are the three other images that I choose for the workshop session.
Frankly I found the idea of just “snapping” what ever caught my eye as being very cathartic.
On my desktop I imported the images. Selected ones that were not blurred (!) and after processing met my aim. After processing in Light Room Classic they were imported into Silver EFX and lastly were upscaled.
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