Sydenham Town Forum

Paul, I was deliberately going for a stylised rather than a natural look as I wanted to emphasise the surreal look of the characters and vehicles.

I can understand you not liking/wanting to use flash as its obtrusive to street photography. Are you still shooting with the x100?

Great Day!

My photos are here: www.flickr.com/photos/pupakpix/sets/72157634548146819/

I am also doing a 2 hour photowalk on Thursday 18 July (10.30am - 12.30pm) from London Bridge to St Pauls.
Suitable for all types of camera - compact, SLR, film, digital and also all abilities.
Cost is £16 ...

Has anyone spotted a large, floating clown fish in the Kirkdale area? Our air swimmer appears to have vanished from the house and all we can think of it has floated out of the door...

Yesterday I signed for two parcels addressed to my husband. As he left the driver quipped how many phones does your husband have and confirmed that the two packages were mobile phones. About five minutes later there was a call on my landline from a man saying he was from the delivery company and the ...

I need some very flexible childcare, can any one help or any other freelancers with advice?

I'm a freelancer and work from home though I need to go into town for occasional meetings. The meetings are usually once a week and can be any day of the week, though there are weeks when I have no meetings ...

South London Photographic Society meet at Perry Rise Church:
http://www.southlondonps.org.uk

London Independent Photography has a group that meet in Sydenham:
http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/satellites/category/dulwichsydenham/

Both are currently on Summer breaks and the next meetings are in ...

Being a photographer I am biased, but I would go for a Nikon or Canon DSLR.
If you like teaching yourself then there are loads of stuff online about all the features of an DSLR. Digital Photography School is a good one or try joining a Flickr group in a subject that you are interested.
If you are ...

Thought I would do great days out I have had in the area:

1. The Recycled House on Longton Grove.
(If you haven't been, it really is an amazing place)

2. Self build house at Shaws Cottages, off Perry Rise.
Saw this at the Architects Open House event some years ago. Friendly architect and his ...

Ours was done by the fireplace shop on Kirkdale and they did a great job.

Hi Nickerbockers, I teach photography at the Kentwood Centre in Penge. It is part of Bromley Adult Education College. It is opposite the Sainsburys, has a big car park or you can get the 176/75/194 buses. See the link for a map:

http://www.bromleyadulteducation.ac.uk/kentwood.asp

I am teaching a ...

yay!gosydenham! and anyone else interested in doing a photography course. I am teaching a one day digital SLR course on Saturday 7 March (9.30am - 4pm) at the Kentwood Centre in Penge. There will also be a 10 week evening course starting on the 21st April.

You can enrol online or PM me if you want ...

For anyone interested, I'm teaching a one day Digital SLR class at the Kentwood Centre in Penge on Saturday 7 March, 9.30am - 4pm.
The Kentwood Centre is part of Bromley Adult Education College.
There is also a 10 week evening class in Digital SLRs starting in April.
PM me for more info.

Hmm some yummy infra red film would be great to take some spooky park in the fog pictures. I guess it will have to be photoshoped instead...

Does anyone know of a local darkroom? I know of Photofusion in Brixton and Zoom In in Clapham, but is there anything more local?

Power went just before 9 this morning. Didn't realise what was happening till our son asked what the black smoke was outside the back window.

Humm, annoying thing is the freezer is full....

I was walking up Kirkdale on Tuesday night about 8.30pm and there was a big light (like the ones used by people filming) strapped to a lamp post lighting up the inside of one of the empty shops near the pharmacy at the top of Kirkdale. There were people inside the shop and on the pavement but I ...

Check out guerrillagardening.org
You can post where you want to do some urban planting and find other guerilla gardeners to help you.
There was a recent discussion about doing some planting at Forest Hill train station.

It was on a BBC4 documentary about him that they said he lived in Sydenham. In fact the program started with shots of Sydenham train station. I wish I could find out more, but I guess as you say it was probably only for a short time.

Apparently the photographer Bill Brandt lived in Sydenham. Does anyone know the exact location?

We bought a house this year and the previous owners had paved over the front garden but not payed to have the kerb dropped. When we looked into getting this done and I was shocked to see that it costs £2000! Needless to say we can't afford to pay for this after just buying a house. So I'm not ...