Part of the Crowd

Christchurch. July 2009. Ajr

I hope you'll all forgive me for hitting you with so many out-of-focus photos over the past few days. Truth is, photographs like this one appeal to me - obviously not for their technical finesse but rather for their crazy interplay of colour, pattern and mood. To me, they're not so different from a painting, albeit an accidental one; and I'm not a stickler for photographic perfection if an image captures my imagination and holds me for other (accidental) reasons. I took this photograph at the opening of the Christchurch Arts Festival Winter Garden 2009 in Cathedral Square on Thursday night. www.artsfestival.co.nz