I do rather like airports, and pictures of airports. It’s hard to do colour well in those spaces because the colours are either so tasteful as to not really signify or so awful as to extinguish any other idea you might want to work with. It occurred to me today that there are people waiting in airports a lot more even than usual at the moment. Reminded me of these images for a not all that successful project last year about waiting. I guess I’ve been waiting for a reason to post them.

The Eastern were in town again recently and as usual afforded me generous opportunities to make a record of their rollicking show. They had Jaime Regan with them too (that’s him at the beginning). My treatment of these shots was to pick up their old-timey-ness in dress and music and reflect it back to them in tone treatment (a la gold-toned daguerrotype). The soft-focus effect that some of these have was not intended, and I’m not actually sure how it arose. But it works. Now to track down somewhere reasonably-priced and helpful for some prints on metallic paper to reinforce the browny-gold glow.

The One Love festival on Waitangi Day gave some opportunity to get some highly colourful shots and play with picking out details with the 200mm lens. There was also some music, dancing, food and sunshine.