Waiting for the Buzzcocks (Latitude 2008) by Julia – Top Purple Gallery

I was scrolling through purple flickr pictures when WHAM a purple light was shining in my face. I grabbed a mirror to look, yep there was a purple light cast onto my face. I tried to look at the screen to see what photo had caused this and I found I was part of a crowd “Waiting for the Buzzcocks.”

It’s Saturday, July 20th 2008, 2 A.M. and we are in the Film Tent at the Latitude 2008 Festival at Henham Park, Southwold, Sunrise Coast, Suffolk UK. It’s the 32nd anniversary of Buzzcock, this young old punk rock band. Their first song “Boredom” showed there was nothing boring or old about this band as they invigorated the crowd. The crowd was energized with purple light and Buzzcock sound.

The photographing concert goer was Julia aka Judyboo. I asked her if she knew she was getting such a great purple shot. She said, “I could see how pretty the light was, bouncing off the crowd but I had no idea how nice the photo would come out. I am very pleased with it.”

Judy was glad the concert was inside the tent because it was “nice and warm, unlike the weather!” Judy was having a good enough time to jump into the moshpit when her favorite song “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t've)?” was playing.

Here are a couple of videos from this Buzzcock performance at Latitude. Listen carefully at the end of the second video and you can hear everyone singing “happy birthday” in celebration of this day being the 32nd anniversary of the group.

Buzzcocks @ Latitude 2008 (1/2)

Buzzcocks @ Latitude 2008 (2/2)

If anyone sees Julia in these clips let me know. You can certainly see the purple light that she was able to capture. I asked Julia what she liked about this photo. She answered “I like the darkness of the people in the foreground contrasting with the purple lighting and the sense of expectation.”

Camera: Sony DSC-P200
Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 7.9mm

Besides attending concerts and taking cool photographs and being a big fan of purple, Julia runs Judyboo’s Fairy Wings where she makes and sells custom wings for fairies, butterflies, bumble bees and more.

She also has a etsy shop set up at www.Judyboo.etsy.com.

You can see more of Julia’s photo’s in her flickr photostream including her other Latitude Festival 2008 photos.

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