Drumroll, please... It's the Scottish music photo of 2009
We want to take this opportunity to congratulate photographer Su Anderson, who yesterday won The Pop Cop's second annual Scottish music photo competition.
Su covered the the BBC Introducing and T Break stages at T in the Park for Under the Radar last year, and it was this image of a typically wild Dananananaykroyd show which judge Harry Benson (Scotland's most famous living photographer, no less) picked out as the best of 2009.
Su describes how the photo came to be: "It was my first time seeing Dananananaykroyd live. I knew they were an an enthusiastic band, to put it mildly, but I didn't realise it would be quite so energetic. The two singers really played up to the crowd, taking turns flinging themselves around the stage and jumping into the pit area - one almost landing on my camera gear. The barricade between the stage and the throng of sunburned festival-goers had a ledge around it wide enough for someone to stand on. The singer climbed onto it and so did I, and I shot several frames, but this was the only one where his face was visible. They really were one of the funnest bands I've ever shot, giving me a wealth of options, but this one is my favourite."
Harry Benson said: "The photograph is real and not altered in Photoshop, and I like that straightforward approach. The photographer is right in the middle of the action, which is where the photographer should be."
Read The Pop Cop's article in full and see the runners-up here.
As a bonus here is the slideshow of some of Su's T in the Park pictures which we published last July (with music by Findo Gask) ...
Su covered the the BBC Introducing and T Break stages at T in the Park for Under the Radar last year, and it was this image of a typically wild Dananananaykroyd show which judge Harry Benson (Scotland's most famous living photographer, no less) picked out as the best of 2009.
Su describes how the photo came to be: "It was my first time seeing Dananananaykroyd live. I knew they were an an enthusiastic band, to put it mildly, but I didn't realise it would be quite so energetic. The two singers really played up to the crowd, taking turns flinging themselves around the stage and jumping into the pit area - one almost landing on my camera gear. The barricade between the stage and the throng of sunburned festival-goers had a ledge around it wide enough for someone to stand on. The singer climbed onto it and so did I, and I shot several frames, but this was the only one where his face was visible. They really were one of the funnest bands I've ever shot, giving me a wealth of options, but this one is my favourite."
Harry Benson said: "The photograph is real and not altered in Photoshop, and I like that straightforward approach. The photographer is right in the middle of the action, which is where the photographer should be."
Read The Pop Cop's article in full and see the runners-up here.
As a bonus here is the slideshow of some of Su's T in the Park pictures which we published last July (with music by Findo Gask) ...
Labels: in pictures, Su Anderson, T in the Park, The Pop Cop
2 Comments:
Think you can JUST see my hat in the very back of this picture. :-)
haha nae way the only face you can make out is mine! result, knew i was a handsome fella even if i am yelling like a tit.
chris
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