Neil Danton

…a waiter that moves this fast.

So later the same day, I was assigned to cover a local Food & Drink Festival, and one of the events was a waiters race. This involved contestants carrying a tray of drinks along a picturesque little lane-way as fast as possible, while negotiating around some traffic cones. The drinks looked like red wine, but a little bird told me that it was in fact grape-juice, and the glasses were actually plastic. That’s good on two fronts – health & safety, and it would be an awful waste of a decent class of claret.

The final of the event involved 2 contestants, and both ladies. It must be a balance thing. All the men contestants had been eliminated. Maybe they’d been at the claret before the event.

Although I had a close-up of the finalists rounding a cone:

I actually prefer the image from further out. I think it’s the expression on the onlookers faces that make it:

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…in Tutus.

No that’s not the Annual Photographers Convention (not in this instance anyhow).

I had the strangest day recently. Four jobs for a newspaper, and only one of them a portrait.

First up was some little-ones at ballet class. I didn’t want to use flash as it might be a distraction, so went with available light and a custom white balance.

After about one whole minute, the tots had forgotten I was there and were so engrossed they couldn’t care less anyway:

It’s really hard to hold a camera steady when you are laughing so much.

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…one of these very often

It’s a double-headed, double-ended, push-me pull-you:

I wasn’t out and about looking for genetically modified animals, I just spotted this while on an un-related commission for my client.

The animals are Oryx, a type of Antelope.

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