Circus Kathmandu

I really am terribly lucky to be a trustee of Freedom Matters – a charity that rescues children from Trafficking in Nepal (www.freedommatters.org.uk) The headquarters is based in Dubai, and last week we headed out there because a number of the children that have been rescued from slavery have formed a circus where they can hopefully rebuild their lives and provide for themselves in the future.

They are a really super group of guys and girls – very talented and full of fun, considering what they have been through.  The performance was the very first time they had been properly abroad, and must have been a wonderful eye-opener.

For me, the photography was also great fun, but a very challenging shoot.  All of the images are at 8000 ISO or above (this is becoming a habit for me!) and without flash hard to freeze the subject.

The Nikon D3s and D4 that I use are simply brilliant at dealing with low-light at high ISO, and I have now included high ISO, low-light work in all of my courses.  Anti-noise software has also become so much better since those early days of “Noise-Ninja”.  However, all of these images have been processed only in Lightroom.  Love it!