With Brighton Fringe, the festival and all sorts of events last month, the city – and county – was alive with the buzz of “performance”, our competition theme. We received a brilliant range of images from our camera club members across Sussex who took the theme in their stride, capturing magical moments from live shows and dramatic scenes in nature. As ever, it was tough to pick just a few runners-up and crown one snapper the winner.
We loved Leah Parkes’s shot from the Lady Boys of Bangkok, a staple in Brighton with its vibrant pink big top in Victoria Gardens. The performer’s glittering costume caught the light and sparkled gloriously. 'Performance' in nature (Image: Joanna Kaczorowska) Joanna Kaczorowska cleverly took the theme out into nature with her fabulous snap of galloping horses at Cissbury Ring.
READ MORE: Stunning April pictures for our monthly camera club competition Another brilliant shot was Kevin Brighton’s of a show at the open air theatre in Dyke Road Park in Hove. It really captured the drama of performance. Emma Crosby scores double points with her entry Hush Beats Disco of silent disco dancers on the sand during low tide at Brighton beach.
Silent disco-ers making the most of the low tide (Image: Emma Crosby) And Jan Budgen and Yvonne Kinasz both snapped great pictures of Leonardslee illuminated. But it was Stuart Carden’s atmospheric photograph of a Madness tribute band called the Los Palmas 6 at Steyning Festival last weekend that takes t.
