Street Performers Merrion Square

Borderfox

I would presume that there was loads of Boardsies in Merrion Square today. I saw a lot of white lenses there? Anyway here's a picture from today. I left the camera on ISO 800 all day, what a pain in the ass that was when I found out Mike Wood pictured here!

peter1892

Nice shot - was that his early performance? I think I'm off to the right somewhere, was shooting 35mm though so won't see my own results until friday when I pick 'em up.

It was a lot of fun, and there were a lot of L lenses floating around.

Borderfox

We should start Boards.ie stickers or T-Shirts so we can recognise each other

GristlyEnd

Very nice shot. Will head over to this tomorrow. Is it on all day?

peter1892

Borderfox wrote:

We should start Boards.ie stickers or T-Shirts so we can recognise each other

You mean me going around with one trouser leg rolled up & giving funny handshakes didn't get noticed?

Borderfox

Yeah darren it's on till 6 tommorrow (sunday). I will have an EOS 350D with a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 if you can spot me...! the one trouser leg and funny handshake will get you arrested Peter or an audience!!:)

Borderfox

I will have a Lowe Pro Black mini trekker and a baseball cap on too, so if you see me give me a shout!!

GristlyEnd

I have the same lens but on a Nikon D50 with a Lowe Pro nature trekker. I'll keep a look out.

Borderfox

See you there DarrenG

Morlar

Borderfox wrote:

We should start Boards.ie stickers or T-Shirts so we can recognise each other

Cool picture ! I was there today too - and might be able to make it tomorrow for a while after 4pm will have a black lowepro bag and the crew pass I finagled off the organisers.

iFight

very nice picture btw

Borderfox

I am going to try see Space Cowboy (the sword swallower) he's on at 5pm on Merrion Square east (area number 3 in yellow) I am going to Farmleigh in the phoenix park earlier for the farmers market. See everyone there

Borderfox

Nice one with the crew pass morlar, how did you get that? apart from finagling of course!

Fionn

unusual use of heads of cabbage!! good capture tho!

just thinking of a Boards.ie photog badge wouldn't be a bad idea.
Would the owners object if we had a boards photography logo that you could print off and wear as a badge whenever your attending an event.

Borderfox

A while ago when I sold a load of PC stuff, I printed Boards.ie stickers to put on the parcels that I was sending. Looked pretty good. Maybe a little sticker for the lens hood with Boards.ie and "Press" in big letters!!

CONMIKE12

Nice capture border,I like all the smiling faces in the crowd....conveys the mood very well.

GristlyEnd

Shame about the rain today. I didn't see anyone else around. Below are some pics I took today.





More can be seen at Street Performance Championship

Fionn

hmmm.. i'm not sure about the PRESS part of it but maybe something like this would make a fellow boradsie recognisable!!

peter1892

Some nice shots in there DarrenG - I put a few in my flickr from yesterday (didn't head in today), will hopefully have some more from the real camera next weekend

Borderfox

Class sticker design Fionn. The press bit was just for a laugh to bonk into events!! Here's some more from today.... including Garda Bling Bling!!!

Dreamstate Circus (Jacob & Sophie)


Garda Bling Bling


Class pics DarrenG

peter1892

Nice shots Borderfox - fun & spontaneous images. I thought the Dreamstate Circus were great yesterday.

Borderfox

I must say I thought the Space Cowboy was the best I had seen in the two days, but Dreamstate Cicus were very close...Thanks Peter

jlang

Caught a few shows at the end of Saturday. Was shooting film so nothing to show yet, but I pretty much decided just to enjoy the shows and not worry about catching the perfect shot. The balloon love story guy was great and also saw Johann the Juggler, the Dreamstate Circus and the Space Cowboy. All very good and only the bad weather put me off returning on Sunday.

mervifwdc

Got it all wrong and arrived in on Monday :-(

Zillah

I think I saw you borderfox. Wasn't that guard a very cool random addition to the performance?

peter1892

So....who won?

Borderfox

The Garda was excellent, all blinged up. His mates were cracking up laughing. Don't know who won? My vote goes to the Space Cowboy.

Morlar

Borderfox wrote:

The Garda was excellent, all blinged up. His mates were cracking up laughing. Don't know who won? My vote goes to the Space Cowboy.

I thought Johann Welton was hilarious - saw his first show on saturday and he had the crowd in absolute stitches the whole time. Very very funny guy. The yoyo people were also excellent, I thought the space cowboy had the most interesting/dangerous act but he didnt do as well as the others at cracking the crowd up (imo).

paudie

Thank god someone got a shot of garda bling bling, I got there at the end of that show and I was at the back so I couldn't get any decent pictures of him.

I'll post mine in the next day or so hopefully, I think I'm just out of shot to the right in the Mike Wood one, I was at the front with my 70-200 L

I was getting very jealous of all the press boys walking around with their TWO bodies hanging off of them

Borderfox

Get a rubber 350D or a busted one and use that as a second body....!

Borderfox

More of the Performers

Dreamstate Circus


Space Cowboy


Space Cowboy finishing