Carnival 2017

     The Notting Hill Carnival has been taking place, annually, in the streets around Notting Hill, west London, at the end of August, since the mid 1960's. Visited it again this year, on its second day, last Monday. It is a very colourfully event, and it attracts large crowds. The music systems - both static and on moving floats make it rather LOUD. Anyways here are a few of my photos taken this time around  .....

        While capturing some of the colour and the characters at the Carnival, my images don't show anything of the music and sounds, nor the aromas of the many barbeques

Carnival Time Again

How time flies. This time last year - the August Bank Holiday in England - I went to the Notting Hill Carnival in west London for the first time in many years. Now it's a year on and here I go again.

Thankfully there was some half-way decent light - photographically speaking - the people in the event are fast moving and rarely stay put for long, and I didn't want to have to use either flash or slow shutter speeds - time enough for that for the upcoming Night Carnival in a couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to doing an edit of my images captured over the weekend - probably down to about 10 or so, from the 300 taken.

More from Carnival

Its now 2 days after Carnival, my ears have finally stopped ringing and my hearing is back to normal. What the pictures below may show is something of the colour and party atmosphere of the Carnival - but they fail miserably to show are the sounds and smells of the event.






My memories of August Bank Holiday Monday last in Notting Hill include the aromas of bar-b-queuing food, many decibels from the sound systems and colour.

Carnival Time

Went to the Carnival in Notting Hill at the weekend for the first time in years. I'm not really into the music and there's an awful lot of people crowded around some narrow streets, so after visiting it after I first moved to London in 1985 I tended to ignore the event. But somewhat unexpectedly I enjoyed it this time. I'll post some images taken over the 2 days here in due course.... Anyways on my way home on Sunday evening whilst checking what pictures I'd taken during the day, two passing gentlemen asked me to take their photo.

"What for ?" I asked.

"Because we're happy" they replied.

Not wanting to get into an argument I obliged.

Here is the result -



Though I say so myself, not a bad portrait.