Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Festival Day - Perfect Day !!
Sunshine & 18 degrees max today. Stalls: 116. More food. More live music. Two stages. Kids crafts. Open 12 noon - 6pm.
9 months in the planning.
The people making it happen and street scene 8am Sunday 18th Sept 2011 (click on images for detail if you want);
[ NOTE: Now other post festival chat & photos being added as well ]
Rob Chau; event organiser (Harringay Traders)
Shef Mehmet; event organiser (Harringay Traders)
Andy Newman; event organiser (Garden Residents Assoc or GRA)
Local police
Veolia cleaners
' V ' = volunteer (ie. no pay!) Some are council employees
Volunteers
Rob Chau's sister, helping out (with list of 116 stalls). Rob's wife and son were also helping out this morning.
Local resident (of 35 years!) Pemberton Rd
Looking North (outside Railway Fields)
Salisbury stage; programme of events
Old Ale Emporium stage; programme of events
There's a 'green' angle to this year's festival (as well as food and music). Hand prints from local school children. School choir singing Salisbury stage later.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Favourite is this one. Like your first choice and this other shot (so quick with the eye/moment/click!) And how does she get the subject in focus like that, blurring everything else out, or is that post production?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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My first thought was telephoto lens at wide aperture giving short depth of field, but Alan's #3
would show it's done in Photoshop or similar. Surely not Vaseline on the lens ? :-)
Don't actually like #3 - you're left with the question " What are they all looking at ? "
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don't like photoshop! It's cheating. But we live in a digital world where just about everything in image/photography is about post production. But it's predictable and boring, much like CGI 'movies'. It won't last!
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When I was into photography, back in the Middle Ages, you did that in the enlarger - called vignetting :-)
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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....like the motor car and the electric light
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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or income tax.
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Permalink Reply by Geoff Amabilino on
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And this video round-up of the 2009 festival, commissioned it seems by Rob of the Trader's Assoc is interesting to compare to 2011
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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Ah now that made me feel weirdly nostalgic - how unexpectedly fun it was and that in a way it felt more local than the recent one. In the first festival it felt there wasn't enough variety of food, but on Sunday there was almost too much, and quite a bit of it not local at all - lovely paella from Jamon Jamon, for example, but I had lunch from the same stall on Southwark bridge the previous weekend. Perhaps we need to make sure it doesn't just morph into another anonymous London foodie festival.
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We too stayed local with Hala. But I was tempted by the paella.
And thanks to Maddy we know it's from Jamon, Jamon. Their website says they're in Portobello Road. As well as at various festivals.
The website, incidentally, offers a model for local businesses on ways to establish and expand a loyal customer base. It has information about the company. And useless but interesting facts - e.g. the pans are a metre in diameter. More practical is their recipe for seafood paella with chicken and veggie recipes promised.
I expect the Festival organisers will ponder how far it should be mainly a showcase for local businesses. But surely the best of Green Lanes has nothing to worry about!
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