Brodsko kolo (3)

More images from the Brodsko kolo in Slavonski Brod, Croatia (9 June 2013). The Brodsko kolo, now in its 49th year, is the oldest folk dancing festival in Croatia, and features performances by ensembles from all over Croatia as well as Bosnia and Hercegovina, Vojvodina etc.


It can take up to two hours to put on some of the beautifully elaborate traditional folk costumes seen here, each one distinctive to its own region. Above: Young women from Rečica-Karlovac (left), Korčula (centre), Vranovci-Bukovlje (right) and Vojvodina (below) in traditional folk costume.

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Brodsko kolo (2)

Brodsko kolo, Slavonski Brod, Croatia (8 June 2013). On the second evening of the Festival, folk dancing groups perform in the town fortress (tvrda). The Brodsko kolo, now in its 49th year, is the oldest folk dancing festival in Croatia.

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Cest is d’Best 17/2

Cest is d’Best, 17th International Street Festival in Zagreb, Croatia (6 June 2013)

Canadian duo The LOL Brothers perform on Zagreb’s main square, Trg bana Jelacica (Jelacic Square)

Felicity Footloose (left) and Leopard Man (right)

Mr Qwirk performs on Trg bana Jelacica
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Cest is d’Best 17/1

Cest is d’Best, 17th International Street Festival in Zagreb, Croatia (5 June 2013)

Argentinian street performer Tropeza Ritmika performs on Cvjetni trg

Cia Plaf (left) and Tropeza Ritmika (right)

Spanish street performers Cia Plaf after their show on Cvjetni trg
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May Day Fair

May Day Fair in Lloyds Park, Walthamstow, London E17, UK (6 May 2013)

Donna Maria’s Maypole Extravaganza



Lilian Dalton, who was May Queen of the former borough of West Ham (now part of the London borough of Newham) over 80 years ago in 1931, watches the May Day Fair in Lloyds Park with her great granddaughter.
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March of the beekeepers

Protest by beekeepers and members of the public against DEFRA minister Owen Paterson’s opposition to a proposed EU ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which many leading scientists (including those on the House of Commons’ own Environmental Audit Committee) believe is killing bees in alarming numbers. The protest was organised by Avaaz, 38 Degrees and several other organisations, who have been campaigning on the issue for many months, with public petitions in support of a ban on neonicotinoids already reaching over 2.6 million (Avaaz) and 300,000 (38 Degrees) signatures. Parliament Square, Westminster, London, UK (26 April 2013).

Malcolm Lee, a beekeeper from South Africa (right) stands with a protester from Australia. All of the beekeepers who I spoke to today have seen a significant increase in deaths among their bees.

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Mile 23 – London Marathon

This post is dedicated to the 36,000 individuals who ran the London Marathon today, raising millions of pounds for charity in the process (over half a billion pounds have been raised since the first London Marathon in 1981), and the 70,000 spectators who came out in force to support them, cheer them on, yell, offer orange segments to outstretched passing hands, line the streets and generally make this part of London feel as much like a festival as a major sporting event – all less than a week since the fatal bombings at the Boston Marathon. The following images were taken around mile 23, on Tower Hill and Lower Thames Street.

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Baroness Thatcher funeral

Images taken during the funeral procession of Baroness Thatcher, London, UK (17 April 2013), outside St Clement Danes Church and St Paul’s Cathedral.

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Carnival monkey

Rijeka Carnival, Croatia, 10 February 2013

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Rijeka Carnival – new book

Preview of my book of photographs from the Rijeka Carnival in Croatia, available from Blurb…

Held on the last Sunday before Lent, the wild and wonderful Rijeka Carnival is one of the largest Carnival processions in Europe – an enormous event with up to 10,000 participants from around 100 Carnival groups, and well over 100,000 spectators.

RIJEKA CARNIVAL by Rudolf Abraham | Make Your Own Book