Oh the wonders of photography! It's really enjoyable to get out with just a camera and nothing to do except document chaos. I suppose that's why a lot of people like doing it.

I have shot a few weddings, and by far my favorite element of photographing them is trying to get the ideal moment of disorder that exemplifies the day. Maybe this seems rather misanthropic for a wedding photographer - but I don't think so. A wedding is about more than the straightforwardly gorgeous. I do what I do, and I just try to keep getting better at doing it.

Last night in London was a perfect example of disorder. Take the situation above, a man walking on the road at Elephant and Castle, with a bus shooting by him, taken just before all the buses stopped. It's normally a three-lane roundabout that is death to cyclists and pedestrians, it's nice to see how a little bit of weather can shake things up.

It's not just pedestrians confiscating bus-lanes either, it goes back to my last post about saving society with idiocy. People start talking to each other again. I had lovely conversations with one couple who had somehow managed to find a bicycle rickshaw at 3.30am in Waterloo. The rickshaw driver had got out and walked off. I walked over to see if everything was OK and it turned out that they wanted to get to Marble Arch. I asked where they had come from and they said they'd left Gibraltar at 4pm, had been trying to find a taxi for an hour and were rather dis-orientated by the whole thing.

That was just one amongst many. I bumped into a few photographers who were generally beaming with delight at the scene afore them. It was the general consensus that if you couldn't get one decent shot tonight you may as well jump in the river. It was tough on the equipment though, you had to be sure that what you were using was proof against the elements. (see below).

The weather was awesome, and made for some great photo ops – the only real downside being that the weather was cold and I kept having to take my gloves off to operate my camera. On the whole though, I have to say that I'm very glad I went out. It's a little grand to say that it re-affirmed my faith in humanity, but it's nice to see people helping each other out and just being generally friendly. Today I've been doing some preparation for the travels, buying a few things on-line and watching some TV. Now it's getting dark and the snow has gone from the trees – it's still on the ground, but thinning, much as I don't want it to be, wonderland is over.