Beating of the Retreat, 2014, Oakham Market Place, Band of the Parachute Regiment, Photographs and Video
Another good performance by the band.
Always difficult to capture good images throughout the event due to the confined space of the market place and the time the light starts to vanish at this time of the evening. This September was fine others have been very dull and grey.
Thank you to the Whipper In Hotel for allowing me the use of one of their windows up above the market place. www.brook-hotels.co.uk/whipperin
Oakham Festival 2013, Oakfest, Photographs, Oakham Castle, Oakham Market Place
I was so pleased the sun made an appearance today for the festival.
Performances started at 11.30am this morning in the market place where a lone performer was joined
by many more musicians and singers in a flash mob style. After this it was off to the castle.
No thanks to the few horrible officers of Leicestershire police and Rutland County Council or Oakham Town Council I managed to zoom from the gates the following images.
What was very funny about this idiotic malicious ban is that anyone connect to that mob who might
not have wanted to be photographed by me had to pass me on the way in and out. I decided not to photograph some of them because they were too ugly for this set....
Oakham Town Councillor Enid Joyce Lucas I think she was the mounted security steward?
Happy with i pad
Former Oakham Mayor Jim Harrison (grumpyjag / carpetburns) lookiing happy with his daughter
I switched to Black and white because the dress colour was not to my taste. It now reminds me
of the black dresses friends of our local governance once sent me, they got my size wrong and did not
pay for them so I had to send them back.
Typical Rutland Fashion or is that tropical?
Joy Everett and the balloon man
Coffee
Can we go home dad?
With a Nikon camera like this one the Council and Hot Fuzz will be after him soon!