(NEW) Pride Cymru 2023, The Drummer

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High Street, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.

About the photograph.

The photograph was taken on High Street, roughly near to St Mary Street.

This maybe about 10 to 15 minutes after the start of the Pride parade, and still somewhere in the front section of the parade.

This guy is one of the handful of drummers on the march, with the Pride parade, I cropped the photo to give it a closer feel to him.

I figure to covert the photo, in Adobe Lightroom, into black and white, for a more photojournalism feels to it, and used Adobe Photoshop to crop it closer.

This was my second Pride photography, having done the Bristol Pride the year before, and my fourth photojournalism kind of photography. I was simply being an unpaid freelance photographer, taking the photos in order to build up experience and portfolio.

That day was a very hot sunny day, the parade was about one mile in length, and for those taking part in the parade, it would take them only about an hour to complete the journey. It took me about two hours, considering I often went back and forth along the parade looking for good shots.

At the end, I got myself a massive sunburn, but don’t worry, I learnt my lessons, on the next similar photography missions, I use sun cream.

About the event.

Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.

In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.

Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.

The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.

Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.

That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.

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