Empirical playing at The Festival Hall on saturday, sharp as you like, in dress as in music!
Last sunday in the forest in pouring rain, Sam Bailey and his students took part in another piano in the woods performance. Photographing in pitch dark trying to protect the camera from getting wet was a bit of a nightmare, saved by this fire performance which provided some welcome light, filtered through raindrops, a fortunate addition. More can be found at Sam’s www.pianointhewoods.co.uk site. Please click for the other two images.
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Leafing through some old negatives, I was struck by the similar poses of this young girl at the beginning of her life and that of the poor old woman in the previous post. The humility and vulnerability that is suggested in the way they both confront a camera held by a total stranger from an alien culture is noticeable and I can only wonder what might have gone through their minds at that brief moment in time.
I took this phot.ograph in 2003 on a trek in Nepal at about 3500 meters in the Langtang Range near the Tibetan border. The rain clouds were building up and sweeping up the ravine-like valley below. When I look at the image now, I see a painted Constable landscape of Cambridgeshire or Suffolk although the feeling of excitement I had when taking the shot and seeing the sky there remains.
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