
hands, heart, feet…
As a long time resident and professional photographer of the Blue Mountains I’ve always looked forward to the annual Blue Mountains Winter Magic Festival in june each year. The festival is held in the upper mountains township of Katoomba and revolves around the winter solstice every year. It’s a time for people to embrace and showcase their inner creative and flamboyant streaks by wearing a costume that reflects the annual theme of the festival. Each year the theme changes, this year it was peace and over the last few years it has been phoenix dreaming and historia…Every year there is a grand parade that makes its way up Katoomba street, cheered on by large crowds that line the sidelines. Each year crowds over 45 ooo+ people will come and visit the festival. There is a huge selection of stalls to browse through on the day and many performances take place at various venues of the course of the festival.
Over the last few years I’ve been one of the official photographers and I thought I would put together a small showreel of some of my favourite images that I’ve captured of this wonderful local festival over the last few years. I thought this year was the busiest in terms of just moving through the crowds, I personally struggled throughout the day as I felt pretty unwell and only shot a small portion of the day’s festivities. Luckily there is always plenty of local photographers on hand to showcase the event to the public via social media platforms. As always the event is organised by a group of tireless volunteers who do a great job of coordinating one of Australia’s biggest festivals..no small task i’m sure, and they do an outstanding job.
So sit back and scroll through some of the images that I have personally enjoyed capturing of the Blue Mountains Winter Magic Festival. I hope to see you there next year…..
cheers Ben
Website- benpearsephotography.com.au Winter Magic Festival Website-http://www.wintermagic.com.au/
looking back at winter magic over the years

selfie time

rhythm

Strike a pose

Grand parade coming through

Sweeney Todd & Mrs Lovett

Happy faces

romantic interludes

Carrington hotel fireworks

smiles all round

street performers

marching to the beat of the drum

little fairies

tall people

wonderful volunteers

having a good time

scarey outfits

traditional music

colourful kids

knights of the realm

blue mountains fans

marching bands

fireworks in the mist

great performers

eye popping acts

captivated crowds

what goes up must come down..

getting there groove on

stop on red

talented youngsters

boom shakalaka

show of hands

burning off lunch

little Harry potters

cultural centre drumming

church choirs

Captain Jack is sure to be there

checking the outfit

viking encounters

long time participants

beautiful costumes

yummy food

redheads

funksters

jumping with joy

happy helpers

festival favourites

thor

Jo from Wagana

happy stall holders

performing to the crowds

morning entertainment

getting the shot

spidey deliveries

blast from the past

belly dancers

kids in colour

sun dancers

rock singers

Wagana performance

friendly pets

graffiti artists

dressed in white

making news

Mad hatters

ending with a bang

Hands, Heart, Feet

Winter Magic Festival 2017

Winter Magic Festival 2017

Winter Magic Festival 2017

Winter Magic Festival 2017

Winter Magic Festival 2017- Fireworks

Winter Magic Festival 2017
About Ben- Ben Pearse is a commercial and portrait from Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. Ben works from his home portrait studio in Katoomba and also sells and licenses his large portfolio of landscape images of the Blue Mountains, Australia.
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