Ola and Marcin were shot as 'on location of a couple in a romantic setting'... but in Scotland is nearly impossible to have weather permitting for this kind of pictures, so we were shooting in the Glasshouses of the Royal Botanic Garden.
It was quite funny experience of taking picures cos the 'weather' condition was variable from desert to tropical climat... it depends on the suitable glasshouse... ;)
A clear order was given by Pauline Johnson: Organise a sitting for a family (or other) group in the studio. Prints must be submitted by 14th December. Presentations can be in PowerPoint with music or you may show digital files and discuss them. These will be projected on Thursday 11th and 18th January... Photography isn't only taking pictures :(
The 'Royal' Cats from the Palacios Nazaries in the magical Alhambra, which is one of the most sensual palaces ever bulit...
The Cats were everywhere... in the harem as well...
What is this: Bicolor, Tuxedo, Van, Tabby, Tortoiseshell and Calico etc.etc??? There are cat coat patterns... and all of them we can find in Granada...
The Guardian of the Generalife - the gardens and summer palace of the Nasrid rulers... Sleepy?
Cats are also in Pop Art.
The Dogs... are less indenpendent, so are more similar to people.
Sometimes, cats have serious problems...
...but dogs, I think, have more existential problems... How are dogs going to tackle it?
Usually I prefer cats... with the exception of the Samoyeds. 
A quite old pict from the Lou Rhodes' concert in the legendary King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in February.
It was in a very good mood and intimate atmosphere performance. Her music is softly-softly folk, pastoral imagery and brittle voice... I can recommend a piece 'Fortress' from her last CD: Beloved One...
...but it is probably the image of Mike Simmonds - a violinist and also member of band 'Oddur' which is a quite good performer...
Anyway, the gig was excelent!!!
Narcissism? I don't have too much admiration for myself. It's done for an assignment from Simone O'Callaghan - my lecturer in portraiture.
Some new stuff... It's still hot!
David Bailey is legendary, but his style is quite simple: Bailey cut off the tops of the subject's head or cropped in closer than most traditional portrait photographers would have done at the time. The background was brighter (around 2 steps) than the foreground which was lit up by one flash, giving a quite hard contrast... Yeah... Quite simple... In theory.
Honestly, it's really disgusting. See one time - no more... It should be enough for everyone.
The bull is made to charge of the horses, at which moment the picador driver his short-pointed lance into the bull's neck, while it tries to toss his padded and blindfolded (on the right eye) mount. The whole purpose here is to tire and weaken the bull's powerful neck and shoulder muscles, thus forcing him to lower his head - without which it would be impossibly dangerous to fight and kill on foot.
The next stage... Banderilleros delivers in turn, attracting the bull's attencionwith the movement of his own body rather than cape, and deftly placing the banderillas (barbed darts mounted on coloured shafts) whilst both he and the bull are running towards each other.
Occasionally a canny animal sets off in pursuit of his tormentor...
The matador displays his skills on the (by now exhausted) bull. He uses the movements of the cape (a red muleta) to attract the bull, while his body remains still. If he does well, the band will start to play, while the crowd ole each pass.
The matador attempts to get the bull into a posision where he can drive a sword between its shoulders and through to the heart for a coup de grande. In practice, they rarely succeed in this...
If the audience are impressed by the matador's performance, they will wave their handkerchiefs and shout for an award to be made by the president.
The president can award one, both ears, and a tail - the better the display, the more pieces the matador gets... but if things get really bad - the cuadrilla ends the business with a puntilla, a dagger stabbed into the base of yhe beast's skull.
The bull may be applauded fot its performance, as it is dragged out by the mule team.
to be continued...
The first post... In this way I've started my adventure with the blog... but at first, a bit of the memories of... Andalucia - one of the most photogenic region in the world, then one of the most photographed...
Is it possible to add somethings to long pictures list of Andalucia? After all, almost 150 years ago the 'magic' images were taken by Charles Clifford*... About his picture 'Alhambra' Roland Barthes wrote that would like to live there... Next famous - Robert Capa with extraordinary, documentary pictures of the Spanish Civil War (with a famous, but also controversial, picture 'The Falling Soldier' - which was taken in the andalusian town - Cerro Muriano)... In addition - David Alan Harvey - the one of my favorite photographers, who has been repeatedly drawn to the passion and lyricism of Spanish culture both in Spain and the New World.
The series of my andalusian pictures are comming soon... I warmly welcome :)
*click 'imagenes' in the top left-hand corner.
