Once again we ventured off to the annual Aroma Festival on the day of this shot. I think that we missed it last year, but my 2011 PAD shows us having attended then. The Festival centres around coffee and chocolate, perhaps the most important two of the major food groups. Simultaneously there's a street market in the upper part of The Rocks, at which a lot of the stalls have "No Photography" signs. Is it just me or does that sound like a really stupid idea? What would people do with any of the photographs that they take at the stalls? They'd put them on social media. (Of course PBase is one form od social media that existed before there even was a "social media".) The potential upshot of that? I dunno... free marketing, maybe? The prospect that someone might see something that they like and make sure that they go to the next Rocks Markets?

Short sighted is putting it charitably.

I know that stallholders at Paddy's Markets will tend to go ape guano at the sight of a camera, but often that's down to them having merchandise for sale that is of, shall we say, questionable provenance. (Particularly CDs, DVDs, computer games, and "luxury" clothing and accessories.) However the Rocks Market seems to be more heavily biased toward handmade goods, where that's unlikely to be a problem.

In any case, one of the events at the Aroma Festival is to create an image of someone out of a mixture of dark coffee, light coffee and white cups. The image can only be seen if you climb up to somewhere elevated and look down on it, but we had other things to see that afternoon elsewhere in the city so we just settled for seeing the thing being constructed.