Sunday, April 24, 2005

Did You Miss Me?

Well, been a week since the last update, and a funny old one at that. Was ill from Monday through to the weekend (off work and all with a stinky cold), then busy with family stuff all week end. The BAFTA Cymru 2004 Awards Ceremony was last night and where the next clutch of photographs came from.

As the evening wore on I had planned on calling this piece 'Celebrating Mediocrity' and moaning about the whole thing. But to be frank, life is too short. I could have spent an hour moaning about how Welsh it all was - the clichés, the valleys grit, bygone drama and the lack of real innovation, vision and fresh talent. But I won't - instead I took photos rather than dwell on the derivative, unimaginative and uninspiring that modern media in Wales has to offer.

Still - next year should see the inauguration of a new award - the special award for all the shows that haven?t won because they aren't Doctor Who. Fair play, the series goes from strength to strength - it has to be about the only thing being made in Wales that doesn't feature the gritty struggles of a single-mum on some rough valley estate - however, it hasn't quite transcended its country of production as it does go back in time quite often. I see from next weeks trailer there's a Dalek on the loose in the Millennium Stadium, lets hope they've fought back the urge to throw it a rugby ball.

Anyway, back to the CIA where the awards were held. It's fair to say it's not a very good location for shooting stills without specialist camera equipment. However, I did have some fun as the awards dragged on, taking some snaps of the proceedings and playing about with stuff. A few semi accidental shots and a few semi intended - here are my favourites from the evening - and despite being quite drunken at the time, they were intended shots.

Quite a straight photo to start to give the scale of preceedings - this was our table, we knew we were important as we were so far from the stage so we could bask in the limelight if we won an award (we didn't.)

Table 71 at the BAFTA Cymru awards 2004 - important table at the very back

You can add your own caption, but the punch line is something like "any longer and he could have used it as a belt." This photo also shows the beginning of my fascination during the evening with the overhead drapery, being a lot more interesting than what was underneath it.

How big? Interesting lights above the BAFTA Cymru Awards for 2004

Some more nice lights and drapery.

Drapery and people

More drapery.

More drapery in space

*Cough* drapery...

Yup, wibbly shot of the drapery (and Mark And Emma Boulton)

Big smiley face in the drapery.

Smiley Japanese robot face in the drapery

And damn it, my favourite shot of the night *was* an accident - featuring some nice drapery...

Classy but accidental shot of people at the BAFTA Cymru Awards

Posted by Dio Bach at 22:45

5 Comments:

RR said...: Ah there you are! Daleks playing rugby - now there's a though. ;-) I love the smiley face drapery, great photo Dio.; 8:31 PM
Elise said...: Very clever drapery and fun photos too. I'm gonna steal that idea for my next party. Nice to see your own domain name in action, I've updated my linkage to you.
cheers and welcome back!; 1:29 AM
holly said...: Hey, did they have any drapery at that fancy shindig?

Welcome to your own domain, hotshot. Will update link shortly.; 4:27 AM
Dio Bach said...: Cheers all - the drapery was truly fine. Like the awards it was nothing innovative, but generally it was photogenic. :D

I've had this domain for a while now - finally decided to do something with it rather than just leave it as was. *Me* prods Holly and reminds her of http://INeedNewTeeth.com ;); 4:30 PM
holly said...: Man, if you need new teeth, go right ahead and snap up that domain name- I didn't renew it. I think I'll rob a bank instead. ;-); 8:58 PM