Cannes 2010

No sooner am I back at work, and while still trying to settle in a new home, than it's Cannes Film Festival time again. The town of Cannes had been battered by storms the week prior to the festival, but all credit to the organisers it was up and running (with sunshine) in time for the start - albeit to a back-drop of bulldozers shoring up the beach.
It wasn't a classic year in terms of celebs appearing (Sheryl Cole as one of the main highlights? C'mon...) but it's the kind of event that you have to attend every year or risk losing your place. Every photographer is allocated a spot on the red carpet, but only those lucky enough to get a front row number actually stand where they're meant to. The rest of us end up peeping over shoulders and squeezing into gaps where we can see clearly (a few ingenious snappers even bought hugely stacked glam rock/70's disco shoes to give them a height advantage - I see a photographer's fashion trend emerging). The shot above of Naomi Campbell was taken at a point where I couldn't see clearly, and consequently includes the melee of photographers in front of me and beyond. Ironically it was my best selling image during the festival, but I guess when there's so many 'clean' shots of someone, getting something a bit different makes a change.

J-Lo and Cheryl Cole providing some much needed glamour for the festival.