Festival Season

This image was taken as Pendulum walked on stage...So very glad I was in the photographer's pit for this one. As you can see from the image this is the crush as thousands of fans push forward in unison to greet them. I always like to turn my camera on the crowd as headline bands take to the stage. They make such fantastic atmospheric shots and I hope give a feeling of the euphoria of the event.
As for the band....Drum and Bass meets hard techno rock and their set didn't disappoint the multitude of fans.
This year sees LemonSplash Photography covering festivals almost every weekend of the summer. We will be covering events as small as SeaSelsey through to medium sized festivals such as NASS and then onto some major players in the festival calender such as Camp Bestival and finishing off the season by returning to the Isle of Wight for the last big festival of the season, Bestival. Along the way I will be photographing fancy dress competitions, huge mega ramps for skateboarding, bmx and inline, angel gardens and strange acts at camp bestival through to surfers and Lily Allen live onstage as she closes Bestival in September.
At 45 you would think I would be taking it easy and winding back a bit but truth told this is something I should have done 20 years ago as its so much fun. hard work but fun non the less.
Lookout on my flickr site over the coming weeks for lots of festival images.
Add to all the festival work my usual wedding work and now arts and craft fairs where I sell my images directly to the public it makes for a thriving business which is much needed in these very difficult trading times.