Stilton Cheese Rolling Festival. 7th May.

I have been at the Stilton Cheese Rolling festival shooting for my project on the English lifestyle. There was a great buzz and community feel around the small town of Stilton, the street was packed full, despite the rain and cold weather.This is a man who was sitting in a booth for one of the rides which lined the main street of Stilton. There were so many things going on, ferret racing, fair games, dancing, singing and of course Cheese Rolling, I hope that I have captured the esscence of this festival through the 10 frames I shot on the Mamiya RZ-67.

Daytime at the Fair. 22nd March.

There's a fair in my city at the moment, people only usually see fairs at night when everything's open and it's bustling with people. The fairground has a completely different atmosphere in the daytime; a few people walk about the grounds chatting together, on a couple of rides there are men checking the mechanics, some girls play together on one of the "£2 for 5minutes" trampolines, and dogs sit next to the caravans gnawing on bones. It's a friendly environment, it feels a bit like a morning at a festival, it's a community of people who travel and live a really unique way of life. 

So today I visited the fairground armed with the Mamyia with a roll of colour 120 film and captured the people and the environment which they call "home". 



The Shire Horse Show. 18th March.

Today I was shooting at the Shire Horse Show, this is for the new project I'm working on. The show is held at the East of England showground in peterborough, there were horse events, stalls, and dog agility events so I thought it would be a really great event to shoot for my documentary. I was working with medium format film today, so I only took a few digital images as instant reference images (this photograph being one of them). I love shooting with film, especially medium/large format, as you find yourself really considering each show and composition in depth. Hopefully I'll be getting the film developed tomorrow, so I'm rather excited about that!