I’m just home from tonight’s camera club meeting which featured a member’s showcase, where members of the club could show up to about 12 images of their choice and talk through them for the benefit of the audience. I like those nights in the club – you get to see a varied range of images both in quality and subject matter, and usually members of all levels in the club participate. That was no different tonight, but shots of the St. Patrick’s Day parade featured heavily.
So it was a good thing, probably, that my plan to show my St. Patrick’s Day slideshow didn’t work out (I mistakenly didn’t think the audio would carry through the room from the laptop, and I think the audio is kind of important to that slideshow). Instead I showed a few photos from my recent visit to Sydney – most of which have popped up here in recent weeks. So to any DCC readers of the blog – apologies if my shots bored you!
All those St. Patrick’s Day photos did remind me that I didn’t yet post the image you see above, which I captured in the start area before the parade. I have a follow up shot (both of them are in that slideshow) where the girl looked at the camera and smiled, but I prefer this candid one which shows her concentrating on twirling the drumsticks.
Speaking of that slideshow, most of the audio (and a good proportion of the images, though not the one above) featured the North Carolina State University marching band, and I was delighted to be able to pass on a link to the slideshow to the band’s director in NCSU, and he in turn has passed it on to members of the bands and their parents.
For the last few weeks the slideshow has been getting regular hits from North Carolina, and I’ve been getting regular emails from parents expressing their gratitude for me putting the images – and I think in particular the audio – online.
One of those emails informed me that there was an additional 100 members of the band who couldn’t travel to Dublin, and knowing how impressive the band was in the parade, it must be an extraordinary sight to see the full complement of members marching together.
The band will be using some of my images as publicity shots in the future, and I hope to be able to send them a copy of the slideshow on a disk so that they can archive it as part of the history of the band. And if they ever return to Ireland, I hope to get the chance to photograph them again.
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