I’m doing a ‘Billy Connolly’ where I leave a subject for posts on end and then come back to it later. Now is ‘later’ and I’m sharing some more amazing photography from the Ray Ban Photography Awards that my photos got into the Semi-Finals in 3 out of 4 categories (for those of you now joining me for the first time.. I was super excited and Tony Mott has seen my pictures.. HONOURED!!) So for the SOCIAL category I didn’t get any photos picked from these lot that I submitted…
This was taken at the lights with self timer, the shutter open for 10 seconds while the lights were green and us staying completely still.. the sacrifices I do for my art =P
A crowd shot in the Gold Coast at Good Vibes during while The Gossip was playing.. I just loved this guy singing his heart out
While crossing the lights on some street in Melbourne I judged the lighting from the setting sun and just shot this image, I love that the light is perfect especially with the girl’s hair on the left, the juxtaposition of it everything and image quality
Bit amateur this one but I love it.. living in London I would come to the East End and see these light installations and dreamed of doing this, more so with this band I was interviewing but I didn’t get the opportunity so on a casual visit to see close friends and we ended up here and I had to give it a go. Told everyone to stand in front of a colour and pull a funny pose. As you can see the girl second on the left (who I’d met that day) was totally uncooperative and effectively ruined my photo. Will definitely do it again with a better angle, better camera and not resting on some random persons car…
This is at a lookout in Lisbon that is amazing filled with locals, students, hippies, tourists, alternative families with their kids, hipsters, foreigners who have wandered off the beaten track and drug dealers. It has the most amazing view and everyone just sits and chills out, taking pictures of the view, chatting, drinking, smoking weed and you will always find a motley crue of musicians playing sporadically. A man with his guitar will start and then some random guy with an instrument will sit beside and join in and start jamming.. trumpets, tambourine, singers, more guitars, percussion an awesome spontaneous jam session just playing for themselves and for no-one in particular. It’s an amazing vibe and sangria & beer are only 2 Euros as you can see in the picture J. & I are just stacking them up and drinking away. So none of these got chosen.. (Boooooooooooooo) I guess looking at the rest of the SOCIAL pictures that some just weren’t good enough or sex, drugs, rock’n'roll, party, party enough.. here are some amazing pictures of my favourites…
