Malden Fortnight; Day of Performance, Craft Fair, Korean Food Festival and Unilet Expo 11 BBQ

This is shaping up the be a busy weekend, I can feel my eyeballs falling out. I'm working 12-4 tomorrow as part of the Funday Sunday event in Beverley park and I shot a bunch of events this afternoon. Then I have this job interview at 10am on Monday, all of this activity requires much more sleep than I am currently getting.

So today I shot Jenny Hunt's Day of Performance, the Craft Fair, the Korean Food Festival and the Unilet Expo BBQ, before returning to St George's square to shoot more of the dancing.
Here are my favourites from today, a full set can be found here. I've snuck in a few shots that were more for personal enjoyment and you may recognise a few faces, either from last week or last year.

















All the images I've taken so far should be featured in the photo gallery on the Malden Fortnight website soon.

I think I'm calling this one out as my overall favourite, all she wanted to do was dance.

550; 35mm Photos.

So, I got my Glastonbury film processed this afternoon. I took half a roll in my SLR, not knowing what was on it already and another roll that I shot over the course of Sunday.
To my surprise there were photos from as long ago as Paris! There are also a few from mine and Moon's terrible visit to Wagamamas. Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with how the Glastonbury (I promise that I'll stop talking about it soon!) images came out, they definitely make me want to start using more 35mm again — although I say this nearly every time I get a roll processed and it barely ever happens, and I seem to have run out of my never-ending supply of colour film now anyway.

So, while I'm waiting for Moon to get here before we go out with some friends for a curry, I figured that I would share these with you because I quite like them.
Paris:


Wagamamas, Portsmouth:

Glastonbury 2011, Sunday:

Ok Go

Ricky Wilson, Kaiser Chiefs, The Other Stage.

Bins by stall selling Glastonbury Spring Water.

Beyoncé, Pyramid Stage

I feel that I must mention that I am slightly disgruntled over what I paid for these to be developed at Boots. Firstly, they were charging an extra £2 for a CD, which I bought because it makes things easier, and secondly, it would have £5.99 per roll for 6x4 images anyway, which seems quite steep considering they have the facilities and you can buy so much film for that amount nowadays. I might also add that Asda throw in a CD as an extra for free, which kind of adds to the sting a bit.

Glasto2k11 Photos.

So it's taking ages to upload the photos onto Facebook but for some reason the ones I've put onto Flickr were done hours ago. So here is my mandatory 'here are my photos from Glastonbury' post.

Despite the fact that I only took my Canon 90IS AND the fact that it practically fell apart (thanks Dan for the electrical tape), the photos actually look a lot better than I thought they would, even if I do say so myself. I was feeling pretty pessimistic after a quick run-through in-camera but it just goes to show that you should always have a proper look on your computer when working with digital.

So, I think my previous post pretty much said all I had to say about how awesome Glastonbury was.
I feel like I want to add how much I hate NME after reading it this afternoon; why the hell does it have to be so angsty about everything, hardly anything was positive, I think it's time NME grew up. I'm not a big reader of NME anyway and usually only browse it if they're taking about something I've been to and this weeks issue fully confirms that they are just wrong. The photos are brilliant though. I'm just all about event photography at the moment anyway, particularly from Glastonbury - obviously because I've been there, but also because there's such an eclectic mix of styles from each of the photographers, it's really exciting for me.

My favourite images so far can be found as part of Boston.com's Big Picture feature, the captions are a bit hit-and-miss, I think it's because it's American, but the photo selection is brilliant and I love the size and layout of the page. I love that each year usually has a couple kissing as well, nice.

© Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

I saw this man, it was pretty awesome initially but from behind, the manufacturing was much less impressive

© Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

© Matt Cardy/Getty Images

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Here's a panorama from Sidmouth, which we visited enroute to Bodmin.