Borough Market in London, south of the river, has a long history, dating back to the 12th century. The stalls sell dishes from all over the world and today it was packed.

Look at these guys. The guy on the left is scooping up multiple spoonfuls of food to give customers a taste before they commit.

Shot with the Ricoh GR III at 1/50 second at f4.0 and ISO 400. The market is kind of indoors under cover and with the dim lighting in there I should have upped the ISO to freeze the action.

I wasn’t thinking straight because I was primarily shooting with a film camera (a Nikon F80). It’s the first roll I have put through it (camera bought on eBay) and I’ll write more about it when I have the film developed and scanned.

Look the lights above their heads – warm light to make food look attractive.

This has been a time of seeing people deep in reflection, people seeing and feeling something in their mind’s eye that is impacting them.

Meditations For Mortals is a book by Oliver Burkeman, and it’s a Sunday Times best seller. I wouldn’t have dragged myself off the couch to see him speak but Tamara wanted to go. The sound system was atrocious so I wasn’t getting the best out of the hour of the interview.

Somehow or other some people found themselves with more than one copy of the book to be signed, so I stood in the queue with Tamara, book in hand.

The staff offered little post-its for us to add the wording we wanted, but I had a simple message so I didn’t take one. When it was my turn I said I didn’t have a post-it but it was simple – just ‘To David’. I think I can manage that, he said and we looked at each other and Oliver Burkeman turns out to be a lovely person, generous with his appraisal of others – which is all one can ask in life.

The tag line of his book is ‘Stop trying to sort yourself out. Start living.

Here he is signing my wife’s copy of the book as they chatted about things.

Very low light in the room, so this shot with my Ricoh GR III had to be at ISO 3200 to get any kind of decently fast shutter speed (1/60th second) at the maximum f2.8 aperture. And the camera kept failing to find focus because of the dim light, so I am glad I managed a shot with him smiling.