{"id":12464,"date":"2021-08-31T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12464"},"modified":"2021-08-30T13:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T13:08:58","slug":"notting-hill-carnival-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=12464","title":{"rendered":"Notting Hill Carnival 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Children’s Day 2006<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’d missed Carnival in 2005 for the first year since 1990. I’d tried to get there despite a painful knee injury a few days earlier, but had had to abandon the journey; the quarter mile walk from home to railway station ending with me collapsing in pain and deciding it just wasn’t possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Children’s Day 2006<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By 2006 I had a considerably improved camera, the Nikon D200, still DX APS-C format (Nikon were still adamant it was all you needed) but with a hugely improved viewfinder and 10.2Mp. And a rather wider range of lenses, though for carnival I only took the remarkably versatile Nikon 18-200mm zoom (equivalent to 27-300mm). Looking at the full-size images its hard to fault the lens quality, though it had more distortion than prime lenses, but this was of no consequence for these pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notting Hill Carnival 2006<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The other big change was in processing software. Pixmantec had brought out its ‘Raw Shooter’ software and it was streets ahead of anything else. So good that Adobe had just bought out the company as it couldn’t face the competition. Even though this gave them the Pixmantec raw processing engine it was some years and several versions of Lightroom later that reached a similar level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notting Hill Carnival 2006<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As in most years I went to Notting Hill on both the Sunday – Children’s Day – and the Bank Holiday Monday for the Carnival proper. I’d photographed the Sri Mahalakshmi Temple Chariot Festival earlier on Sunday, as well as taking a few pictures around Stratford, so I didn’t arrive until after 2pm on the first day, and for some reason I only put a few of the pictures on My London Diary. But there are rather more from Monday, and I’d decided to concentrate more on the actual procession than in most earlier years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notting Hill Carnival 2006<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Notting Hill Carnival 2006<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More pictures on My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d missed Carnival in 2005 for the first year since 1990. I’d tried to get there despite a painful knee injury a few days earlier, but had had to abandon the journey; the quarter mile walk from home to railway station ending with me collapsing in pain and deciding it just wasn’t possible. By 2006 … Continue reading Notting Hill Carnival 2006<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3387,681,2756,2111,17,679,680,83,5307,5308],"class_list":["post-12464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","tag-3387","tag-carnival","tag-costumes","tag-dancers","tag-london","tag-notting-hill","tag-notting-hill-carnival","tag-peter-marshall","tag-pixmantec","tag-raw-shooter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12465,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464\/revisions\/12465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}