Summer's over

Well the summer hols are now over and it's work again tomorrow. I am well behind with this blog and now need to FOCUS. Tonight I am getting really organised downloading all my photo's and catching up with where I am and what needs to be done.
I have restarted my paper-scribble-log as I can put some more personal and less thought out enteries and scribbles there.

I have decided to include in this little post my favourite photo from the summer:
This was taken at the Annual Fete in Oradour-Sur-Vayres in the Limousin area of France.
The things I like about this spontaniously taken shot are;

1) The forward marching movement of the drummers is accentuated by the arrow shaped lighter tones of the jackets (formed due to the perspective of the distancing line of drummers) giving movement from left to right.
2)The depth of field highlights one particular character instantly and then you look around the other faces. It also adds to the blurring of the nearest drumstick which keeps the lively action in the photograph.
3 I not only like the overall colours in the picture but also the smart uniforms and drums gives an overall pleasing tonal result.

My own criticism of this shot is that it may work better by having the very top cropped as the roof isn't parrallel with the frame which is displeasing to my eyes. This could be easily corrected but I have decided to show the full frame 'warts and all'