Seen tonight at the BCPA Annual Gathering

[Bob]

I guess this is the way of today. From tonight's Annual Gathering mini-band contest - (FWIW - I have tons of photos and will be sharing a bunch tomorrow on the BCPA site) this is a classic I think, as parents record their young 'uns: http://www.bobdunsire.com/share06/lp7t5657.jpg
The video cameras seen - at one point I counted 7 :wow: in use in front of me - here you see 4 of them.

From the same moment, looking at the lower right:
http://www.bobdunsire.com/share06/lp7t5659.jpg

And looking at the lower screen:
http://www.bobdunsire.com/share06/cropvidag.jpg

Interesting stuff, and I wanted to share.. :D

:hatoff:

[Bill M]

Very cool! :thumb:

[rkmitch7]

What's the link for the BCPA website?

[Aaron M]

http://www.bcpipers.org

[Bob]

I'm pretty slow in getting to the photos today - whew, a big day yesterday for weak old me :D

There was a really big challenge with lighting for the band contest, and for the BCPA albums I'm not doing too much 'post processing' - but here are a couple of photos of bands that show the venue (these were made up of of two photos each - one shot at a shutter speed of 125th to get the band, and one at 1/10th (!) to get the crowd - merging is done in PhotoShop:
http://www.bobdunsire.com/share06/lp7t5684.jpg
In the lower right you see the judges.

And the new band in our area, Greighlan Crossing (G3), in their first contest:
http://www.bobdunsire.com/share06/lp7t5679.jpg

And of course, a photo of the winner of the Cairn - in a class with Jack Lee, Alastair Gillies, Bruce Gandy, Jori Chisholm, and tons more, the winner was (for the second time):
http://www.bobdunsire.com/share06/lp7t5753.jpg
Andrew Bonar :thumb:

Finally, a look at the audience, from the side of the stage:
http://www.bobdunsire.com/share06/lp7t5704.jpg

[Ken MacKenzie]

Here's a shot from the Pro Jigs contest that goes to show people have varying degrees of interest in piping... Or they multitask very well! :eek:
http://www.rcl140sechelt.com/web_images/IMG_1836_s.jpg

Ken

[Scott Foster]

haha that's funny. Good pics guys

[the fishiologist]

Originally posted by Ken MacKenzie:
Here's a shot from the Pro Jigs contest that goes to show people have varying degrees of interest in piping... Or they multitask very well! :eek:

Ken, she was reading the same paper through the entire pro piobaireachd class too!

[Aaron Malcomb]

That's Jori Chisholm's mother. Though she doesn't display it in that photo, she is actually a very keen piping spectator.

[the fishiologist]

ah! she only needs to hear one then! :lol: