Tonight I went to the circus. I had my camera with me, but didn’t expect to take anything other than a few snapshots for the person I was with.

But after coming home, and playing with the photos, I really liked one. It’s not perfect obviously, but it conveys what I wanted it to, and it has a certain emotion attached to it. At least in my eyes.

“One day… I will get you. Until then, I’ll try harder, and harder”

Ljubljana, 27.4.2008 in Hala Tivoli, saw the performance of Katie Melua. She plays acoustic folk-pop with mixes of blues, jazz and some rock. Before her, a fairly unknown singer went on stage, Andrea McEwan. I didn’t know what to expect from either of them (I’ve heard one or two songs from Katie before, but that’s it) and was pleasantly surprised after the show. Apart from excellent performances, we witnessed a really dynamic show. The people could have shown a bit more enthusiasm, but hey… that’s Ljubljana’s calm crowd :-).

Andrea McEwan

Katie Melua

Last weekend was a really nice one, the weather was quite ok. Unfortunately I didn’t have a lot of time due to a project I’m working on. But hey, you need to breathe a little. So, together with Petra, we went for a photo-hunt to the center of town.

Finally, some time to post pictures to my blog. I have a few posts planned, it’s been a while since my last one. Anyway, in the mean time, I’ve been in Barcelona for a business trip (a conference). I’ve had a little free time between the lectures and the weather was really nice (25°C) so I took the opportunity and took my camera with me.

Yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of shots of people taking pictures of people :). I wish I took more time. I’ll probably repeat the experience as soon as I get another chance.

Today, after a rough night, I went out fairly early. I wanted to buy a guitar, but unfortunately didn’t find any that would suit me. Afterwards I decided to take a walk across Ljubljana. Try my hand in street photography.

At Seka’s concert in Ljubljana, during the warm-up bands, the excitement in the public was overwhelming… people were screaming and shouting… or maybe not

Ah, another concert. Not exactly a great, big, Rock concert like I wanted, but something I wanted to photograph non the less. Seka Aleksić, the Queen (Kraljica), known mostly for her hit single Aspirin, came to Ljubljana. She was only 2 and a half hours late, and there were three semi-good but mostly bad warm-up bands. I went there with a friend - Pavle Barborič, so at least I had someone to talk to during the wait :-).

The lights were horrible and smoke was everywhere, but hey, it was a challenge non the less. Comments appreciated.

Today, I just got home from a Microsoft event - the launch of the new product wave (Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008) with events entitled “Heroes happen{here}”.

Anyway, after a full day of lectures, it was time for the closing party. Before and after of the finale of the game Guitar Hero for XBOX 360 (I was second ), the crowd was entertained by a band called Rock Partyzani. I already heard them once (Bruc 07) but this time, I had a very rare opportunity of being more or less THE ONLY crowd. There were about 80 people (at the start), and only about 20-30 after the finale. And none of them were close to the stage so it gave me the ideal chance to keep move and scour for opportunities.

Finally!!! A concert again. You can’t imagine how good it felt to shoot a concert again. Especially Nightwish. For me, the concert was good. Anette did a good job at the latest songs, but obviously, with the older ones, Tarja’s voice was sorely missed. But ok, things change.

Anyway, for the concert, I focused a lot on Emppu and his poses, because he’s known to be energetic through the whole concert, and generally a poser :-). As far as the pictures go, I’m not really that satisfied, partially because I’ve grown lazy because of the 70-200. And I need to buy myself a Lowepro 75 or something similar (suggestions anyone?) so I can change lenses a bit faster than with my current Kata R-103. Right… a bit off topic :). Here are the pics. Comments appreciated.