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Umbria Jazz

June 25, 2011/0 Comments/in PhotoBlog, Travel /by damian

Italian summer concerts are something special – a mix of great world-renown performers, laid-back atmosphere and summer sun. Umbria Jazz, set in the ancient stone capital city of Perugia, has grown from a small gathering to a twice yearly world-class event (there’s winter jazz as well). The atmosphere, with people sitting on stone steps beside the duomo, listening, relaxing; performers everywhere from marching bands fresh in from New Orleans to individuals and small jazz groups and a great ambience, it’s a festival not to miss.

Umbria Jazz this year, 2011, is dedicated to the 150 year anniversary of Italian reunification and features Carlos Santana, Liza Minnelli, Gilberto Gill and Sergio Mendez, Chick Corea, Randy Crawford, BB King and Prince. Yes, the purple one. Amazing artistes all.

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The Passion

May 30, 2011/0 Comments/in PhotoBlog, Travel /by damian

Procession Votive de la Passion, Roquebrune, France. This Passion Play began life in 1467 as a mark of thanks for the ending of the plague that had ravaged the region. Inhabitants of the village (Roquebrune-Cap-Martin) which sits in the hills between Menton and Monte-Carlo on the Cote d’Azur, perform the play every year on August the 5th through the village’s narrow alleyways.

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120 Minutes

May 28, 2011/0 Comments/in PhotoBlog, Travel /by damian

120 minutes in possibly my favourite Provençal coastal town, Antibes, Cote d’Azur, France, shooting the people, life, flavour and activity on a hot July morning. Part of the fun of this was the challenge, 120 minutes, not a second over (except to attempt to park which took 45 minutes…), capturing something of the feeling, the spirit of the place in that time…

In common with 60 Minutes were the heat and the sheer amount of people – as you would expect in high season. Great travel shots aren’t usually made at this time of year which made challenge all the more interesting. Ironically, because of the number of people, I find myself wanting “clean” shots, shots without the hordes and, looking back, I’m not entirely sure that was the correct decision.

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60 Minutes

May 26, 2011/0 Comments/in PhotoBlog, Travel /by damian

60 minutes (of bicycles and benches) on the Promenade des Anglaise, Nice, Cote d’Azur, France, shooting the people, life, flavour and activity of a hot July afternoon. Part of the fun of this was the challenge, 60 minutes, not a second over, capturing something of the feeling, the spirit of the place in that time…

In high season Nice is packed. Heaving. The heat is oppressive. The temptation is to forget doing anything creative, or work orientated, and sit in the shade with a cool drink. The problems were the heat, the difficulty in separating people from the background and the clear, sharp, linear line of the sea (ND filter would have been useful) and the amount of people.

What came out of this shoot was a need to find those interesting people, shapes and views in camera; to isolate them from the frenetic surroundings and hope they say something about life on the Promenade des Anglais in summer. I’m not sure we have that (and equally I’m not sure that we don’t either), but for 60 minutes it was an interesting challenge and one I think further development will come from.

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Phoenix Luminaria

May 14, 2011/0 Comments/in PhotoBlog, Travel /by damian

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Every Christmas the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, lines the paths of its desert garden with thousands of luminaria for “Las Noches de las Luminarias” (Luminaria Nights), lighting up hundreds of species of cactus and, seen here, complementing the blue dusk settling over downtown Phoenix.

Santa Monica Dusk

April 26, 2011/0 Comments/in PhotoBlog, Travel /by damian

Getting your work into print is always fun – especially when Atlantic Records decides to licence one of your stock images for a CD cover. This image was shot in Santa Monica in 1997 on medium format using Fuji Velvia and a Lee 0.6 soft grad ND filter. The low cloud really helped enhance the colours of the sunset.

Tempus fugit…and roll on about 13 years (!), back in LA and another opportunity to record one of the area’s wonderful dusks. No low cloud this time but some wispy ones to catch the day’s last rays.