Last Thursday I was at a talk by Ken Livingstone organised by UCL Union’s Labour Society and just happened to have my camera with me, would you believe.

Unfortunately after a day doing other work, I didn’t have time to pick up a flash (which I’d forgotten to pack at 7am, unsurprisingly), and the light in the lecture theatre was poor. Although this isn’t a massive issue with my fast prime lens, my new 17-40mm f/4 L USM was the lens I wanted to use to get some nice wide shots of the audience and Ken on stage, so the photos aren’t the best I could have produced.

That said, I’m happy with most of the shots, which you can find in the gallery at the bottom of this post. My thoughts on his talk follow…

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