On Thursday, a bit late in the day, I got news that I have received a photo pass for R.E.M. that evening in Udine, Italy. Well, technically, in Vila Manin. I covered the event for Delo.si here.

The drive to Udine was fast (I did have good company ), but parking… Holly crap. We parked a kilometer away. And we could easily have driven closer to the venue. But we were told by the organizers that there are 10.000 people expected, so we decided to park where the masses parked :-). Next time, I don’t plan on making that mistake.

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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.

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.

I’m back. Sorry I’ve kept you waiting, but this year did not start out in a good way. Hopefully, it will improve. I’m certainly doing my best to help it. Because I was in a bad mood I didn’t feel like photographing.

But, today Tjaša and I went to see my grandmother in Krško. And since the weather was really, really nice, we stopped in Otočec on our way back. Since I took my camera with me, I couldn’t help myself and I took a few photos. I originally only wanted to take a couple snapshots, to keep as memories… But I decided to post one anyway.

But, I also wanted to post a photo Tjaša made :-). I rarely like my photos (photos of me), but this one… I don’t know, just seemed so… visionary :-).

For those of you who know me, you know what that gaze means.

I have a couple more I’d really like to share, but not right now. Maybe once. Soon. I hope.

Woooooohoooo, the Adrenaline is still here, after one whole day =). Maybe the drivers in Zagreb had something to do with it, but I’m guessing that the majority of the blame is on the band called Muse.

If you don’t know them, this right here, is IMHO a really cool performance.

Anyway, on tuesday (9.10.2007) Muse were in Zagreb, and the day before, they were in Beograd (Gušti was there and as written here, also impressed).

The show was, in my opinion, outstanding. The performance the whole band gave was great. The energy fantastic. The music (and sound quality), über good. As promised on Gušti’s blog, I tried to capture the ambience and the energy…

One more thing, thank you Antonio, for lending me your 70-105 2.8, it proved to be priceless!

And tonight, we can truly say, together we’re invincible…

So, after having updated my theme (something new) I decided to post some pictures from earylier in my photographic career (er… 4 months ago - but nevertheless, something old).

So, a bit of explaining. I liked my previous theme, but there was something missing (for me). So, after having looked all over the net for a nice looking theme with everythin I wanted, I just couldn’t. I did however find a good theme, The morning after. So I hacked together my existing theme, and The Morning after. I even used the same lead image for my banner - but I’ll be replacing this somewhere this week I hope. As soon as I find an image that is suitable… It was a long time since I’ve done CSS, PHP coding and it felt goooooood =). Anyway, now I’m happy with how my blog looks. What do you think about it?

Now, after having something new, I thought why not post something old. So I dug up something from my archive. Jan and I went to Sečovlje Salina a couple months ago. I was just starting to get more up close nad personal with digital photography then. This was when I bought my D80. Most are without tweaks, except the “film-like” one. Lightroom’s aged photo preset with a couple of exposure & black clipping modifications + Photoshop for the frame and comibination of the photos.