China Town

China town for the New Year celebrations.

Faces in the crowds

This will be the last of my posts from last weekend in London. There was a lot of things going on with parades, stages etc. Even though I rarely do 'street photography' or candid work I found there were many images happening in front of my camera.
This selection is the best from what I shot.

Food

Todays episode from Sunday, is of the cooks at one of the Dim Sum restaurants in China Town. Here the cooks work in the window making and then boiling the little dumplings.

Girl with Balloons

As you may guess the next few days will be filled with images shot at the weekend.

This image was taken just after yesterdays image. 

It is not often I post people pictures but yesterday was as much about people as the location.

Gung hei fat choi

Well it looks as though I am going to have a good and prosperous year of the Dragon.

I had a trip up to London to watch the Chinese new year celebrations in Chinatown. After watching the parade. I wandered along Gerrard Street and than up on to Shaftsbury Avenue. The roads were all closed and I was standing around watching the goings on on a small stage area, when the Chinese god of money came out of a bank and gave me a red envelope with some money in it. Well that was what I told the policeman:)

OK in truth, it was a Chinese man dressed as the god of money and the envelope had 20p in it. But as that was the first time I have ever received money from a bank without fighting for it, I am seeing it as a good omen, even a very good omen!