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 F. Kelleher on September 20, 2011 at 21:10

I loved it. Had family over visiting from Ireland and France and they were thrilled to be part of it. The kids enjoyed so much being able to run around GL without their shouty mother warning of the dangers. Also the Veolia chaps cleaned our Gardens street with their Hoover van things twice on Sunday, so much better than the old regime.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on September 21, 2011 at 11:11

Can I add my thanks to Matt for taking and posting photos of some of the most important people of the day - those who did the hard work behind the scenes to organise and run the event.

Having enjoyed the Festival I've also had fun seeing other people's photos. Hugh is inviting them to the Harringay Online Flickr group and I hope more people will add a few of their own.

We'll all have our favourites, but I want to highlight a set by Maja Kucova - posting as Belkus. Maja is a professional photographer and seeing her great portraits of people at the Festival made me wonder whether I shouldn't stick to dumped mattresses.

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Permalink Reply by matt on September 21, 2011 at 12:11

Excellent portraits, particularly at the end of the set. Thanks Alan.

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on September 21, 2011 at 12:28

And in the middle. Didn't you like these? (1) (2) (3) (4) - for example?

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Permalink Reply by matt on September 21, 2011 at 12:36

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 September 21, 2011 at 13:28

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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Permalink Reply by matt on September 21, 2011 at 15:03

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!