Notting Hill Carnival 2018
Young black beauty on her best dress Rhinestones like diamonds decorating her face Assorted shades and slacks all of pink hue Carry on the diva’s duties bring the booze to the men And they will chant and dance all night till the rum runs dry Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Pirates, privateers or buccaneers are part of the Caribbean history Two Trinidad and Tobago belles have a glass of blood red enhanced juice The ambiance is for a boarding party and you better go overboard Before the fun seeking hordes make you walk the plank Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
A young black beauty offers a lethal smile In a divinely arranged seduction attire Her denim tells that she fought fiercer tigers before And the perfect golden shoulder blades Invite both the feverish kiss and the generous tithe Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Shooting from the sidelines Capturing the candy and the candid The minutes of self-indulgence and vanity And all that would be consider lesser mortal sins Become overwhelming virtues When blessed by the angel of beauty Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Lunchtime at Chepstow food and wine The dingy joint becomes the main attraction Food and beverage are part of Carnival culture To keep the dancers shapely and the twerkers ‘twerky’ Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
This is the main purpose of the Carnival As imagined by Claudia Jones Cumberbatch To appease the animosity after the 1958 racial riots After the murder of a black man by a gang of teddy boys Cancelling this year’s Carnival would be one more mistake Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Beautiful young fashionista totes her killer body Red shades for the bloodshed A lioness hairdo for the kill The trap is set and the hunt is on Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
One thousand and one nights will never suffice to exhaust the dream Young beauty glides by hiding a Cheshire cat grin behind metallic mask This si probably the best possible definition of the ironic smile And through the strategic transparency you see the budding piercings Let the Zucker B zealots offend themselves, foam and choke… […]
Years go by and never come back Nostalgia hangs its flowery noose around our neck, the perfumes of the past The welcome to the old travellers of time, the seafaring halcyons But the light has grown dimmer as we wait in vain on the shore For the great white sails of hope to appear over […]
Tropical mermaids get up close and personal Coming to the rescue of the drowning mariner Wide-eyed wanderers with pursed lips A brush with death as the heart skips a beat And the dream of the eschewed kiss Awakens in a burst of impish laughter Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery