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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Symphony At The Park

24 Wednesday Aug 2011

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After I left Shoreham Airshow on the Sunday, I jumped on a train for Chiswick House and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

I’m not sure I have mentioned this in the past but one of the loves of my partner is film soundtrack music, with him regularly writing reviews for a well known website in this sphere. Our thoughts were we could both cover the concert and have an enjoyable evening at the same time.

I started off getting one or two general views before taking to the side of the stage to photograph the conductor Joel McNeely (orchestral music is one time where stage-side is a good spot, otherwise it is impossible to get good images of the conductor at work)

Joel McNeely conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

We then both settled down for a wonderful evening of music.

Composer Jerry Goldsmith's wife Carol applauds Joel McNeely

Toward the end there was a short power failure when (as luck would have it) a piper was on stage and he managed to keep us entertained as the power was restored.

The piper entertains in the dark

All in all a rather pleasant evening.

Further images may be seen and purchased here…

Shoreham Airshow

24 Wednesday Aug 2011

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This weekend was another great local event: Shoreham Airshow. Since I learnt about this event, the organisers and the fact that all the profit goes to the Royal Airforce Association, I want to do all I can.

RAFA flags

The most impressive thing about this show is not the display (which is very impressive), it’s not the amount of money raised (although this is more important), it’s the fact that this entire show is arranged and run by a team of volunteers. In fact it is the largest Airshow put on by volunteers in Europe (probably the world).

Catalina flying boat

I’ll put my hand up now (and if you read this regularly, you will know), I’m not a sport, transport or aircraft photographer. Whilst I find what the pilots make these aircraft do amazing, the craft themselves do very little for me, except maybe the Lancaster – knowing my grandfather was a tail gunner and Concorde which is stunning beautiful.

Catalina flying boat

So my aim this year was to focus on the whole show, the fun for all the family and to portray the feel of the show. The weather was great (particularly on the Saturday) and the sky provided a great backdrop.

Stairway too..

There were slides, spheres, globes, all manner of fun for the children.

Water fun

Zorbs

When covering The Birdman last week I could walk to the job, for the Airshow I cycled for 30 minutes. Whilst cycling home on the Saturday I spotted the (delayed) Lancaster circling over Worthing waiting to make it’s pass. I was able to line my self up with the “display line” knowing it would have to pass and turn almost overhead…

The Lancaster

And to close it left westward, again over Worthing, into the sun….

Heading Home

(Remember – click the images to enlarge). Further images may be seen here..

Worthing Birdman 2011

18 Thursday Aug 2011

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The text on the Worthing Birdman Website describes it:

"The Birdman is a flight competition for human powered flying machines held each summer in the picturesque seaside town of Worthing on England's South Coast.
Many flyers take part to raise money for charities, other design complex machines to aim for the distance prizes. A substantial prize of £10,000 is offered for the furthest flight should a birdman achieve over a 100 metre distance"

The Saturday is reserved for the “Serious Flyers” but with the wind causing a significant swell this year, only two demonstration flights were made before flying was cancelled for the day.

Sunday saw a lower wind speed and so flying started on time with the charity flyers. I say flyers but really they are “jumpers”. Many are in elaborate fancy dress aiming to win a prize by providing the best entertainment. The work that many put into this is fantastic only for them to be wrecked during the jump:

Although the wind was lower than Saturday, it was still strong enough to blow the light (mostly cardboard) creations in the opposite direction of the jumpers so the images are not quite what they could have been.

Following the fun flyers were the serious competitors, measuring wind, aiming to win the £10,000 jackpot. First came Dusan Vuletic all the way from Serbia who managed to stay in the air for 3 seconds, wrecking his purpose made craft in the process.

After Dusan came the remainder of the contenders, mainly in modified hang gliders although the winning flight of the day was Dr Bill Brooks with a flight of 78.4m in his purpose built flying machine.

An event such as The Birdman is made for photography – people doing outrageous things in a picturesque location. The problem we have though is where to shoot it from. The press photographers are placed out on the pier looking back at the flyers with the town beyond. This is ideal except, being on the fishing deck, we are too low. Ideally we would want to get the flyer filling much of the image but still with enough background to put the image into context; Where are they jumping from? is it high? How about the location? From our location we can either shoot a wide image – putting the whole jump into context but loosing the detail of the flyer or crop in tight but loosing all context.

If the aim is national press I know that the most they might use is one image and that single image is not able to convey the jump fully. (As the coverage in the national press proved).

Much is made of the jumpers and the town but I think many thanks should go to the guys in the water keeping the flyers safe:

All in all a great enjoyable event for the town where I live. Good fun and I look forward to next year!

You may see more of my images here..

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