My day job, or at least the freelance work that I do the most, is training school students to develop their public speaking skills with a charity called Speakers Trust. Over the last six months or so I’ve been part of a team of trainers running workshops across Yorkshire and a couple of nights ago, at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, we had our grand final. Each school we worked with had the opportunity to send along their best student speaker and they competed against each other to become the Yorkshire Speak Out Champion.
It’s a lovely event but I’m always a bit saddened when winners are chosen and inevitably others aren’t, especially when all 15 of our speakers did so well. They really were all outstanding. Anyway – my role in the event is to support the students when they arrived, run a short warm up workshop and help them with nerves etc. I was also tasked this time with getting some photos.
I’ve posted a selection on the Speakers Trust Flickr account but I wanted just to add a few here as part of my ongoing photo blog.
The brief was to get shots of the students speaking, receiving their certificates and some family shots after. But I also managed to take some informal ones and I was pleased with the ones below where a circular fan became a useful framing device:
