Today was the first day of the 2011 brass band championships, and consisted of the solo and ensemble competitions. They ran from about 10:30 this morning until 5:00 this afternoon, and I spent the vast majority of that time walking a circle between three ballrooms and photographing people playing brass.
Exciting? No.
Good playing? For the most part.
Feet hurt? Oh. My. God.
Tomorrow is the band championships and I’ll be doing more of the same. We haven’t figured out yet if I’ll be able to shoot the bands from backstage or if I’ll have to find a spot in the balcony and shoot from there. At this point, I don’t much care. I can probably get better (or at least more interesting) shots from backstage, but if I can grab a box seat for myself and just sit in it all day, that sounds pretty nice, too.
I put a few pictures from today on Facebook and will post a link to a SmugMug album when I’ve gone through all of the keepers from the weekend.
TWD