Young beauties
All clad in red ready to paint downtown Young beauties shake and ruffle their feathers Deep unflinching glances, stripping your soul Who is the wolf and who is the little red rider ? That is the question Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
A chap is having an argument with two young beauties No need to wonder who won the argument it is blatant Curves, smiles and glances are powerful weapons Carnival unfurls in a long procession of minute personal events The powerful crowd rushes blind and roaring like a tidal wave Carrying away the mingled souls of […]
Shooting stars, UFO’s and UAP’s are common sights at Notting Hill Be it from the unrestrained consumption of spiritual melanges Or was it the after-effect of the pizza hand fed by some elvish creature It looked like a flowery garden decorated with strange colorful shrooms Suddenly young beauties were floating down Chepstow offering their heart […]
Young beauties in pink and blue doll-like dresses Escaping from the dull days of the daily routines Walking along Chepstow oblivious of the rubbish strewn around Following the beat of the Soca drums, heeding the calls for freedom Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The camera acts somehow like Alice’s mirror It is the impassable frontier between two realities It reflects a different image to the author and the subject Both sides are actors in a different play where they momentarily meet Two young beauties poke fun at their own reflection via the operator Their image will remain in […]
Sitting on a window sill, sipping at some dreamy philtre Two young beauties sport their different hairdos Both classic and African the weaved braids and the shaven head The weaving is fascinating like a sleek black kraken holding her head The beauty of H.P. Lovecraft’s unpublishable novel “Cthulhu’s Secret Lover” Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting […]
Young beauties in colors spinning down Chepstow Big smiles light up the street as they rush past flying low The “Brazilian touch” is supposed to bring exoticism to the exotic Unfortunately some groups are paid professional performers This is an attempt by some ill-intentioned to change the Carnival into a Festival This would allow them […]
The young beauties come to the human tide to slake their thirst But the river is not enough we need the canned and the sparks This is the bright side of the yellow brick road, gold dust is everywhere We sing and pray for better days, skip the tithe, promise a penny for her thoughts […]
Chameleons go anonymous, and rainbow warriors splash their colors Carnival is a kind of purple rain, an ode to violent poetry The ambiguous and the amphibious meet at the shores of Chepstow Wayward young beauties will kiss the frogs hoping for a Prince Charming Close your eyes like curtains that fall at the end of […]
Regrettably this phrase is not from the French Divine Marquis, but the unruly Marquis of Waterford Remembering his hooligan deeds at Melton Mowbray where he painted tax buildings red in 1837 This is the origin of the legendary phrase “paint the town red” accomplish the brazen in a grand style These two young beauties in riot […]