Tonight, Ljubljana’s Hala Tivoli was filled with fans of Seal’s dance-flavored music. Known by his stage name, his original name is a bit longer, Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel. Most people also know him for his marriage to the world famous super-model Heidi Klum, who unfortunately was not present today.

His performance today was an interesting one, although not really my taste. What really impressed me was the amount of crowd interaction he had.

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Originally, I thought I’ll be photographing Judas Priest down in Zagreb. However, Glenn Tipton got sick (I think his appendix was the culprit). Thankfully, I got a chance of photographing Status Quo.

Admittedly, before the concert, I didn’t know a lot about them, I just knew a couple of their legendary songs like In the army now, Rockin’ all over the world and Whatever you want. I’m a fan now :).

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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…

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.

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.

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.

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.