I’m so far behind with posting that it’s a shame :). I have a lot of interesting stuff I want to post, including a shoot I did recently with a friend.

Anyway, I’ll start somewhere in the middle, with Capris’s open air concert in Koper. Radio Capris organized their annual concert, this time, at a rather unusual spot, besides the Bonifika sporting center. We were able to see bands like Noom8, HeaveniX, Sons, Rudi Bučar, Tabu, Dan D, Vlado Kreslin, and headliners Siddharta. The concert would be just as good, if not better, if it stopped with Vlado Kreslin. Anyway, the event was fantastic, the organization was great.

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My friends had a gig recently in Orto Bar. They were the opening act for a group called Puppetz. Interestingly enough though, there were more people there when they started than when Puppetz began :). The performance I saw was great.

Even though Miha, who was also there, speculates the crowd dissolved due to heat, I have this crazy suspicion that more people were there to see world :: within  than Puppetz. It’s not impossible.

Anyway, I also had a chance to try out a 10-22 mm lens borrowed from Jan (the lead singer ), so I did a couple test shots before they went on stage.

On 14th June, 2008, John Fogerty went on stage of the Hala Tivoli venue (read the report here).

A recap from Wikipedia tells us that:

John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his time with the swamp rock/roots rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. He was born in Berkeley, California.

The concert was amazing, even though I don’t listen to this type of music I found the performance excellent. And speaking of excellence, the drummer was AWESOME. I later found out it’s none other than THE Kenny Arnoff.

Aronoff has recorded with musicians such as Melissa Etheridge, Jon Bon Jovi, Michelle Branch, Joe Cocker, Trey Anastasio, The BoDeans, Corey Hart, Meat Loaf, Willie Nelson, The Rolling Stones, Alanis Morissette, Bob Seger, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Waylon Jennings, Bonnie Raitt, Mick Jagger, Alice Cooper, Belinda Carlisle, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Lisa Germano, Tony Iommi, Iggy Pop, The Starting Line, and hard rock and glam metal band Cinderella.

Combine that, with Dave Santos on bass, Matt Nolen on keyboard, Hunter Perrin on one guitar, and Billy Burnette (of Fleetwood Mac!) on other guitars, and you get a line-up that plays really well together.

As far as photographing goes, we were limited to two stage positions and for two songs. We had to stay fixed and so the photos are all from the same angle. The lights were OK and the ambience was great. One thing though, that was different was the placement of the stage. Instead of facing the exit, it was sideways. Interesting…

Oh, and I’m pretty sure the teeth are fake…

Wow. It happened. I took pictures at Mark Knopfler’s concert in Zagreb. The show was fantastic. The ambience was great, and the crowd was in my opinion excellent. It seems that Guy Fletcher agrees with this ;-). Interesting though as the concert was, nothing could ever top the meet & greet I witnessed from Mark and the band (including the awesome performance from Matt and Guy on the stylophones ).

The only thing horribly wrong with the whole picture was the appalling odor of the dressing rooms…

As far as photographing goes, the lights were very good, but Mark is more or less still on the stage anyway. The crowd was sitting down, which is always a shame as it kills the mood, not to mention it makes the photographers squat in front.  We had two songs to work our magic and then we were able to go and enjoy the show.

At the NT conference in Portorož, an opportunity arose to take some photographs :-). Not being a guy to shy away from such chances I borrowed a friend’s Pentax K10D :-). Alongside Had, we tortured photographed Ana Papež.

There were a couple more shoots I want to post, but I’m a bit busy with everything…

Anybody coming to Blogres this year? I missed it last year, but I’ll probably be attending this year. See you there?

Register here.

A couple weeks ago, the largest student “party” event took place - Škisova tržnica. Apart from the really bad organization as far as photography is concerned, and the fact that I don’t like these types of mass events, the whole experience was interesting. Tiring, but interesting.

No, this photo is not photoshoped. It’s directly from the camera, with a slight adjustment of exposure.

Yesterday, we witnessed another attempt at the world record for the largest synchronized Quadrille dance performed to the music of Die Fledermaus (The Bat or literally, The Flutter-mouse), a comic operetta composed by Johann Strauss II.

Preliminary indications show the record was broken — there were around 27.000 dancers in a couple of countries among which Slovenia is leading the way. There were about 36 cities participating around the ex-Yugoslavia area.

And after the parade itself, the “party” and drinking continued over at Gospodarsko razstaviše.

A blogger friend of mine was also there, here are Petra’s photos.

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”

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.