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(NEW) The V-Sign

(NEW) The V-Sign

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(NEW) The V-Sign

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Kingsway, Cardiff (Caerdydd), Wales (Cymru), United Kingdom, on Saturday 17th of June 2023.

About the photograph.

This was taken at the end of the parade route, and I caught this lady giving the V-sign, which can be either a peace sign or a victory sign, so I grabbed some shots.

It started life as a victory sign in the early 1940s during the Second World War, and gained fame when the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill used it more often.

By around the 1960s and during the Vietnam War, it became a symbol of peace and thus became known as the peace sign.

In the context of the above photograph, maybe she meant victory because as she completed the whole parade route, but then again, she meant peace because that is what the Pride parade is all about.

About the event.

Pride Cymru was previously called Cardiff Mardi Gras when it was formed in September 1999. It held annual festival in Bute Park. It became a registered charity in 2010, and starting from 2012, they held a parade through the city centre.

In 2014, Cardiff Mardi Gras was renamed to Pride Cymru, and had operated under the new name ever since the change of name.

Pride Cymru is in reality a weekend event, often called Pride Cymru Big Weekend, and attracts up to 50,000 people over the three days, with Saturdays having the parade through the city centre.

The route for the parade is approximately about more or less one mile in length, and would take anyone approximately up to an hour to complete the route.

Because I was doing photojournalism, trying to find interesting shots, therefore I often sometimes walk back and forth, up and down the parade, so it would take me about a couple of hours to do the photo-shoot.

That day was a very hot and strong sunny day, and I some sunburn.

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Part 2 – Hope Springs Eternal

Part 2 – Hope Springs Eternal

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Part 2 - Hope Springs Eternal

By the time I stepped through the door, the journey was already beginning to fade behind me.

The room glowed with soft light and quiet conversation. Champagne sparkled in crystal glasses, laughter drifted between familiar faces and complete strangers, and for a few moments I simply stood there, taking it all in. There is something wonderfully liberating about walking into a room where nobody knows your history. Everyone has the opportunity to become exactly who they choose to be.

I realised that my earlier anxieties had quietly slipped away somewhere between Tongham and Mayfair. I wasn’t wondering whether I belonged. I already did.

As I smiled and joined the gathering, I couldn’t possibly have known that before the evening was over, one unexpected introduction would leave a memory that would outlast the music, the champagne and the party itself.

Hope rarely arrives with certainty.

It arrives with possibility.

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Part 2 - Hope Springs Eternal

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