Bestival Festival 2011: ♡♥

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Searching for The Decisive Moment

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I've been sitting on these images for a while now, the plan being to make a large album of photos I've taken within the 'decisive moment', but the project never really got legs and instead I've put photos which would have fit into this gallery into lots of other smaller collections.

So in a bid to break up the Bestival and Tattoo Festival photos (I only have two more sets of them to post, I promise) I thought I would share these.

A woman striding out of the gloom on a sunny afternoon, a couple sit on a the steps of the South Bank parade framed by the shadow of the bunting, a lad flicks a football in a busy park eyes set on it and both feet off the ground and a man looks directly into camera as I intrude upon his time with his girlfriend, his expression neither neutral or angry.

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Bestival Festival 2011: Tweedledee & Tweedledum

"If your name's not down, you're not coming in."

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Bestival Festival 2011: Enjoy The Sunshine But Prepare For Rain

How very British!

 

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Bestival Festival 2011: Crystal Panda

Crystal Castles were playing at Bestival! Wait, what did I just type? "Crystal Castles were playing..." What the hell!!! Why didn't I go see them? Where was I during their performance? I have no excuse... What? They were on the main stage? You got to be f--cking kidding me? 

I suck at being where I want to be at festivals.

 

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Tattoo Convention: Graf

I was in two minds about posting these. I don't feel like they're good photos, they're not good photos, but the art in them is so vibrant and quirky that I felt like I wanted to share it.

It was possible to win this massive piece which was made on the day by serveral graf artists live in front of the attendees of the convention.

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Bestival Festival: Colour Chameleon

I was not the only person at Bestival with a camera, there were lenses of all different girths and lengths and on more then one occassion I found myself staring with mouth agape due to lens envy. There was even a young man with a vintage large format camera exposing one large frame at a time in a wooden camera on a wooden frame.

I'm not sure what Ms Boy George (above) is lining up in her viewfinder but she was crouched long enough for me to take a few shots and didn't notice me snapping away. I wonder if anyone took any sneaky pics of me... please, no, not on fancy dress day!

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Tattoo Convention: A Few of My Favourites

I love this guy's tattoo! I've not featured the whole thing in the shot, sorry for being a tease, but it really was magnificient as you can tell from the suggestion of scale and intracacy you see here.

This lady had a few admirers amongst the convention goers and none more admirer than her owner.

This ladies tattoo, made up from godesseses and cobras and all manner of other things stopped at her neck and covered every other visible inch of her body.

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Tattoo Convention: Vestibulum est Iaculis

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Dancing, acrobatics and other sports lend their selves so well to photography, I'm ashamed that I've only just got around to point my camera at these athletes. I'm always very impressed with photos of dancers, they always look so good. I think it's the positions they contort their selves into, the posture and poise, there is always something impressive about that.

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Tattoo Convention: Periculose Ferventes

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