This guy had an awesome beard!

The school of samba is my favourite float, so many colours!

Even the balloon lady was dressed up

The guy on the right is actually a costume

Carnival people enjoying the funky fun

I found this guy amusing

Had an awesome time at the Carnival in Luton earlier today. Loads of colours and happy people as always and the weather just about managed to hold out for us

I shot the Carnival last year as well – check out the images here.

Landscape photograph of a field and forest with a cloudy sky overhead

This is one of my favourite landscapes I’ve ever taken. I love the contrast between the out of focus field and the sharp trees and sky, I always enjoy working with wide apertures and shallow depths of field to create effects like this.

Loads of firsts in this post, 1st time I’ve shot a band, 1st time I’ve basicly put an advert up on the photoblog and 1st time I’ve posted in this format. Click “More…” or the image above and scroll down for more photos!

This fantastic band were playing at Lydia and Justin’s wedding. They’re called Rance’s Rockin’ Chair Band and you can check out their website here. I was massively impressed with how awesome they were. They played a fantastic version of “I wanna be like you” from “The Jungle Book” I found a spare moment between shooting and asked them if they would like a couple of shots out on the balcony and this was the result!

They’ve got a couple of CDs available on their website which I’m sure are excellent but if you’re in the area you should definitely go and see them live. There’s a list of upcoming gigs available here.

Just as a side note: I’m getting nothing for this, they don’t even know I’ve posted it yet! I just thought they were really cool and deserved some recognition.. and of course the photos are super amazing

]]> http://www.jamesmcclean.com/photoblog/2009/06/rances-band/feed/ 1 http://www.jamesmcclean.com/photoblog/2009/05/luton-carnival-2009/ http://www.jamesmcclean.com/photoblog/2009/05/luton-carnival-2009/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 08:14:18 +0000 James http://jmphotographic.eu/photoblog/?p=536

This last week has been so busy with part 1 of the street fashion/urban portrait shoot on Tuesday, Lydia & Justin’s wedding on Saturday and Luton International Carnival on Monday. I’ve taken almost 2000 images in under a week! Full blog posts will be coming to the front page of the site within the next few days with images from the 1st two events. I thought I’d stick the images from the carnival on here.

It was a crazily super hot day and there were thousands of people everywhere, oh and it was REALLY noisy! Had a pretty cool time though Loads of colourful costumes as you can see, the guy in the van stood out as something a bit different! I also got the mandatory feet shot at the end.