...in Leicester Square during the Chinese New Year celebrations.
I love the expression on this woman's face as a cloud of firework smoke engulfs the crowd, and the way she presses the youngest child into her scarf. I'd never seen a firework display in daylight before; they aren't much to see, but the noise and the smoke are very striking. And they are what this family are reacting to.
It was a lucky capture. A gap opened up in the crowd. I saw the expression on the woman's face, took a couple of steps towards her, and realised that if I went any closer I would distract her. So I zoomed in as close as my lens would allow and fired off a few shots. I've cropped the image quite hard to isolate the central family group. The shot I took a second later didn't have the girl with the pink hood in the foreground, but the woman's face had changed, and the photo doesn't have the same dynamism.
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Massimo De Dominicis 3 months ago | reply
Grazie! Ho visto la tua foto nel gruppo/Thanks! I saw your picture in the group PHOTOGRAPHY IS LIFE
Martinus Photography 2 months ago | reply
Very interesting photo. Lot's to look at....
Dean Ayres 2 months ago | reply
Thanks for your comments, everyone.
ctaylor1987 {back soon} 3 weeks ago | reply
congratulations. fabulous work.