Shoot from the hip: Incognito photos from the Durham Miners Gala 2009

I was at the Miner’s Gala the other week and took along my camera. As always it was heaving and there were some pretty interesting people around.

Here are a few photos I took without raising the camera to my eye or composing the shot. The trick is to not look directly at the subject and appear to be interested in something else – just be sneaky and try and spot things out the corner of your eye, peripheral vison all the way!

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A Bit More Brass…

A few more Brass Festival  pics here, prob the last from this set. If you want to see more get in

Brass Festival website

L’Imperial Kikiristan website

Brass Festival: A Story in Pictures

This was the best part of the day when I followed Imperial Kikiristan at the Brass festival in Durham – I’ll let the pictures do the talking…

Imperial Kikiristan website

Brass Festival website

Brass: Durham International Festival – A few Photos

The Durham International Brass Festival kicked off on Saturday and I was volunteering so I took along my camera.

There’s a whole bunch and the festival is on for another week and a half so I’ll add more later but just thought I would stick a few up now.

This guy is from the Band that I chaperoned around the festival. They are called Imperial Kikiristan and they are AWSEOME!

This photo was taken just after they were chased by a security guard for playing on top of a bin – when backup arrived they ran form the scene mimicking a police siren on their sax and set up on top of this bin down the street instead (just out of shot)…

Brass Festival website

Imperial Kikiristan website

This next photo I really like. It looked good in colour, B&W and re-touched but I really liked the idea of making it feel a bit ‘Seventies’. It was a super hot day and reminded me of old photos of may parents during that crazy heatwave that happened back then. Also with it being a brass festival it sounds a bit ‘old fashioned’ even though for the past three years it hasn’t been at all, but you know with the whole colliery bands and miners gala and all of that – it kind of felt right.