Before i start let me first say

If anybody steals these images. I bringing the law still. They are copyrighted, and owned by ME. if you wish to use them for anything at all, publication be it web or print. Contact me and make a request.
On sunday the 30th of march I hauled my ass out of bed and hit the streets at 11:00am with the intention of covering the jamaica carnival and bacchanal road march for 2008. I missed the bacchanal people at their start point. I had intended to leave ith them as i was based in mona from saturday night. I high tailed it to worthington avenue in new kingston and waited from 11:30 to about 2pm when the bacchanal group made their way from eden gardens around the bend onto trafalgar road. the shooting then began. I got some really great images, One thing i know for sure is i found the sweet spot with the 2 lens’s i mainly used. I worked the crowed from there on sstraight to the intersection at YMCA. on arriving there i had totalled my 2 gig cf card. (was shooting in raw format). I swapped to my backup 1 gig and then headed to half way tree road with the intention off grabbing some  shots of the Jamaica Carnival march.

One thing i can say for certain the Jamaica carnival gets a zero the bacchanal march gets a 10. The jamaica carnival group was extremely boring. I shot them as they passed (was in the streets with them just like i did with the bacchanal group) and I got no energy from them at all, most those images i just parked.

After they jamaicca carnival group passed i hightailed it to york pharmacy bought 2 bottles of water and finish them in like 30 seconds (i’ve been running off a king sized snickers from 11 in the morning). I decided there that I might as well head back to mona. i headed to the new buspark wehre they had a music setup and a huge crowed there. then shortly after i heard the chants of carnival revellers. it was the bacchanal group again *YAY*. I geared up once again and got in the streets with em and started shooting once again. By this time i had to switch from raw files to medium format jpgs. I rolled with the bacchanal grup from the halfway tree buspark all the way back into new kingston and down knutsford boulevard. making my final stand in the isle inthe middle of the road (infront of burger king). after the crowd decipated and i got a shot of a bad ass hot rod car I called it a day and headed back to mona.

For this day my gear consisted of my Rebel XT, sigma 70 - 300mm telephoto lens, 50mm canon f/1.8 and my trusty could not do it without it opteka battery grip which allowed me to shoot all day with out the sightest battery problem :)  and now for what you all have been waiting to see. The images.

BTW if anybody steals these images. I bringing the law still. They are copyrighted, and owned by ME. if you wish to use them for anything at all, publication be it web or print. Contact me and make a request.