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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Fancies 2011 Royal Mile PHH Sykes phhsykes portrait candid documentary reportage street photography www.phhsykes.co.uk wyrdwebwonders wyrd web wonders.
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The evening was setting in heralding the night to come. With clouds shrouding the setting sun the prevailing light altered as if a tidal flow of illumination was travelling the length and breadth of the High Street. Bobbing along on the fast changing flow of light I surfaced and dived in and out of shadows and the alleyways. Feeding my perspective with flash I filled my frame with something of everything available and took one particular shot of near nothingness. All too soon it was time to escort my assistant home and so we turned our backs on the lengthening shadows in Edinburgh as we headed into the setting sun descending in the West. We were glad that the sun was bringing down a curtain on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as we needing to find a fitting rest so that we could rise again ready to do it all once more only this time harder, longer, stronger, faster and yet slower with consummate ease and a frantic frenetic pleasure.
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The rain came and went again and then the sun shone on and on and on. The colours brightened and burned in the warm light as Edinburgh enjoyed a beautiful August Sunday with fantastic fringe fancies of all shapes and sizes running amok in a somewhat marshalled chaos. Suddenly after the rain the whole High Street became a sun trap in which the crowds and performers could bathe in golden star light before they began to get ready for the evening’s stage bound limelight. After the crowds of the afternoon the centre of Edinburgh slowly breathes out and opens up again releasing performers and spectators to scurry away to venues and to find refreshments. The quiet of the evening leads to the still of the night. The silent shadows passed unnoticed by the last late leavers of the festival are filled with a potent promise that the return of the light will bring out again the pretty displays that attract all of the avid festival fans to fill the streets again.
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The changeable light of August in Edinburgh brings great challenges to the photographer. The conditions suggest certain technical settings and seem to guide you away from others. Within the limitations are more possibilities than it may at first appear. One huge advantage to the fickle forms of light is that there is often more space and time to take pictures on the Royal Mile. Those that brave the less advantageous weather conditions are often more inclined to help make a photograph into a picture. With the use of perspective and after gaining an angle you might still have time to balance the composition and set up your lighting before you click and flash and then take up a second position for an alternate elevation and then click and flash again. Sometimes the difficulties in the creative process produce the challenges that make the finished work more stratifying.
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When the sun shines out on Edinburgh all is bright and beautiful. The myriad jewels of the many shows gently jostled for attention on the High Street today. Strange wonderful weird and wyrd outfits were set to stunning makeup so that friendly and fiendish features faced you from all directions. Now that the festival is in full swing the sun shine coaxes out more crowds. There is no other way along the High Street than to meander at a daunder as you enjoy weaving as you wander. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Fancies pictured here are all ready to take to the High Street again and to blossom into the beautiful blooms of another day and make happy havoc in the fantastic fray. The vibrancy and vitality of the entertainers and the crowds creates a truly irresistible occurrence.
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Film on YouTube
So there was some rain and then there was some more rain. At least it was warm and almost humid, especially when you were enjoying the radiance created by the street performers and those advertising their shows. There is no weather that can spoil Edinburgh so whether the sun shines, or the rain falls there is always a whole series of fantastical delights to engage with. Some of these delights are recorded here for Edinburgh Festival Fringe Fancies 2011. Each year the festival attracts new and old acts and they have fresh faces to present to the city and to all those enjoying the whole experience. At the start of the festival it is hard to believe that this level of creativity and artistic intensity can be kept up for three weeks, but once the banners go up there is never any shortage of wonderment to fill the performance spaces of Edinburgh.
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Film on YouTube
