South Shields Daily Pictures
Good Friday traditions #8
Posted by Curly (South Shields, United Kingdom) on 5 May 2011 in Documentary & Street and Portfolio.
This is part of a fairly long series of pictures taken on Good Friday (22.04.2011) in South Shields. I wanted to document some of our traditions which we have followed for over a century, and I wanted to depict them in the colours and styles that I remembered as a child in the 1960s, and for that reason I have attempted to replicate the slightly faded colours of old Agfa or Kodak prints using cross processing.
To try and retain some of that authenticity you will find pictures which are not particularly straight, perhaps not well focussed, or at an unusual angle, I wanted these to look like very amateurish "snaps" which might be found in any family album.
Rather than bore you all completely, I will break up the series with some other shots from time to time
Here we see members of the Westoe Brass Band just having a wee rest before leading the parades away from the West Park and back to their churches. Thought they looked great under the blossoms.
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