Five Minutes of Floor Room - Ballroom Dancing - 2008

Like the heading suggests, I wanted to finally show you some of my favourite images from my Major Folio for 2008 which was a photo documentary on Ballroom Dancing entitled: "Five Minutes of Floor Room". This refers to the amount of effort, skill and preparation that goes into the Dancer's time on the competition dance floor which is on average 5 minutes. There's a lot more images (40) but here's the ones i'm especially proud of.

The idea for my folio was to have all (or most) of the preparation images in B&W and in contrast to have all of the competition images in bright colours.

International Megastars Dance Festival 2008

What a massive weekend I have just had! (even though it's Thursday and I'm about to have another weekend!) On Saturday I shot Nicole & Rhys' wedding (photos to come) and on Sunday I drove down to the Gold Coast to take photos at the Internations Megastars Dance Festival (Ballroom & Latin Dancing Competition) at Jupiter's Casino. I haven't mentioned this as yet which I guess is quite bazaar, but I'm doing a photo-doc on 2 couples who are involved in Ballroom Dancing comps. I have been following Simon & Stacey (see below) all year throughout their practice sessions and this was the first competition that I got to go and see them perform in their gorgeous costumes! Many thanks go to Ross and Tricia Heidke of Heidke Studios and Simon & Stacey to allow me to be their shadow this year!



While Simon & Stacey weren't on I got some photos of other people. I have about 6000 shots to go through and I will be putting more up on my flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/22035207@N00/ over the next week or so. If you were wanting copies of shots, please e-mail me on wendypphoto@ymail.com and I will organise prints or a DVD to get out to you.