Shakedown 2011 part two: the people

Motor cycle riders can be an colourful bunch, as Last week's Shakedown at Southend seafront illustrated. As well as the riders themselves, the perfect weather also brought out a fair smattering of day trippers.

Shakedown 2011 part one: the machines

Bank holiday Monday was a scorcher, as is usually the case for the annual bank holiday Shakedown motorbike rally.

Every Easter, tens of thousands of bikers, scooterists and trike lunatics mob up at the Ace cafe just outside London and ride to Southend, sit around eating ice cream and ride home. All for charity.

So I went down the seafront with Nath to record the moment.

Shot using a Leica D-Lux 4, unphotoshopped (where do you find the time?) and unmanipulated, other than using the pinhole setting on the camera and a polarising filter.

Out and about: famioly comes to town

 I don't often have much cause to do the sights in London, so when my cousin Mike and his wife Tabi paid a visit from America for the first time in a decade it seemed like just the thing to take in a few.

 All the images are taken with a Leica D-Lux 4, uncropped and unphotoshopped.