Robot Dancers
Robot Dancers, originally uploaded by Liam O’Neill.
These guys were just one of a number of street performers to be found outside the Pompidou Center in Paris. They had little trouble finding an audience amongst the many students, tourists and people there just to hang out.
They had a backing track that would alternate between whirring motor sounds and music. They would “dance” in this strange robotic slow-motion way into various arrangements, the backing track would change, and they would perform a chain-reaction type dance for a bit before the backing track changed again. It must have taken a lot of planning and rehearsal before hand.
I’ve dug this one out of the archive to enter it in a competition on a non-photography web forum that happens to have a photography competition every month. This month theme was a combination of movement and black and white (i.e. a B&W picture of movement)
With disk space cheaper than ever, it’s never been easier to simply save all your shots, not just the good ones. Often, when you go back and look through these shots a few months later you can find pictures that you somehow overlooked the first time through.