Photojournalism

Funny Signs From Around the World

10 September 2009
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Throughout at least the latter part of the Fringe Festival there was a funny signs from around the world show behind held on Princes St just above Princes Mall. The signs are from around the world and some of them are absolutely hilarious. Attach are most of the signs but if not at least the [...]

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Edinburgh Military Tattoo

1 September 2009
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August is always the best month to visit Edinburgh simply because of the amount of culture that is around. As well as the superb Fringe Festival there is the Military Tattoo which is held anually at Edinburgh Castle. I remember watching the tattoo as a child but never really thought about going to see it. Normally [...]

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Fringe Festival Part 5

27 August 2009
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This is my last post of images for the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, for at least 2009. This was really the last day I visited the Fringe and I saw my absolute favourite act. The juggler at the top was really funny, he engaged with the crowd and even though the crowd was small, perhaps [...]

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Fringe Festival Part 4

22 August 2009
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Over the last few days I’ve been out and taken more photos of the Fringe Festival that takes place every year in Edinburgh. This time I had a rare walk down to Cowgate and saw this fantastic pink bus. I didn’t want to pay to go into it but as you can see it has [...]

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Fringe Festival Part 3

17 August 2009
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Today I was really amazed at the diversity of the acts. I’ve been working a lot recently so it was really nice just to get out with the camera and take some random shots. The old knight really made me laugh when I saw him. He would smile and wave at people as they walked [...]

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Fringe Festival Part 2

12 August 2009
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This post about the Fringe Festival had some really cool acts. First of all there was Clanadonia. Liv and I saw some videos on Youtube about Clanadonia and she really wanted to see them, especially as they had performed in her home country Taiwan before. So I was walking through the Fringe and saw Clanadonia [...]

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Fringe Festival Part 1

11 August 2009
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This year was the first year I experienced the Fringe Festival and I have to say it’s absolutely awesome. There are so many diverse acts that are so much fun. You get everything from magicians to dancers, to craft stalls, to anything really.  In the future I would really like to have my own stall [...]

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Fringe Festival Job

7 August 2009
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Today I was comissioned by an advertising agency to photograph a show for a gentleman who was staging his first show. The show was quite good fun and I managed to capture a few images. As well as photographing the show I got to take some portraits after the show, something I really enjoyed doing. [...]

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Edinburgh Nocturne Cycle Race 2009

31 May 2009
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Today I had the great pleasure of watching the Nocturne Cycle Races in Edinburgh. Before I got into photography my life was all about cycling. In my final year of cycling, which would have been 2003 (scary to think it’s 7 years ago!) I did roughly 12000 miles but then I had a huge accident [...]

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