Manchester Pride 2012

A week late in the update but it was the annual gay Pride parade in my home city of Manchester last weekend and, given that I live only about 100 metres from the gay village where the parade winds up, it's a great photo op.

I headed over a little before it was due to start to try and get a good spot to shoot from. I was damn lucky, managing to haul myself up onto the window ledge of a local business and shoot over the crowd. The downside being that the crowd filled in underneath me so I couldn't get down and was trapped on said window ledge for 90 minutes. I did manage to get some good photos, though so it was worth doing. Definitely going to try and secure the same spot next year. It was bit of a challenging shoot, though- the direction of the Sun frequently meant that the parade itself was in shadow and the crowd behind was in direct sunlight meaning it's tricky to get a balance in the final shot- up the exposure to make the subject clear at the risk of creating a distracting blaze of overexposure in the crowd behind? I'm pleased with a number of photos nonetheless.



The complete set of photos from the day can be found here.