Posted on November 30th, 2020 under Denmark. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, concert photography, metal, metal magic festival, Nikon D500, shadow storm. Comments Off on Metal Monday

Posted on November 26th, 2020 under Iceland. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, flowers, landscape, Nikon D500, Westfjords. Comments Off on Dyrafjordur Fjord

Ray Mensh and Mem V. Stein of Exumer @ 2019 Brutal Assault Festival

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The 2019 Brutal Assault Festival was a thrash metal music fan’s paradise. Exumer, from Germany, has only played a handful of shows in the USA since their formation in 1985, and none of those shows were anywhere near me. I would never have a chance of seeing a band like this without going to European summer music festivals.

Anyway, the day after I took this photo I found myself on a plane from Prague, Czech Republic to Frankfurt, Germany. Who should be sitting next to me on the airplane? None other than Ray Mensh pictured above (on the left).

Posted on November 15th, 2020 under Other. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, brutal assault festival, concert photography, exumer, metal, Nikon D500. Comments Off on Exumer @ 2019 Brutal Assault

Bathers at La Grenouillère by Claude Monet in The National Gallery (London, England)

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Born on this day, 180 years ago…

From The National Gallery:

“During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir painted together at La Grenouillère, a slightly raffish resort on the river Seine some 12 kilometres west of Paris. It had become a popular weekend retreat from the city during the 1860s.

Monet made several oil sketches at the resort, including this picture, in preparation for a large painting of the site that he planned to exhibit at the Salon of 1870. Painted quickly and technically quite crude, these studies have a directness and immediacy that could not be achieved in the studio. Monet was painting what he saw, without any attempt to tidy up the scene. Rather than a documentary record of La Grenouillère, he presents a summary of his own experience of fleeting visual effects or impressions that changed moment to moment. As pictures in their own right, these sketches were an important step towards Impressionism.”

Posted on November 14th, 2020 under London. Tags: museums, Nikon D500, The National Gallery London. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Claude Monet!

Niklas Turmann @ 2016 Metal Magic Festival

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Posted on November 4th, 2020 under Denmark. Tags: concert photography, metal magic festival, Nikon D500, Tokina AT-X 11-20mm F2.8 PRO DX, uli jon roth. Comments Off on Niklas Turmann of the Uli Jon Roth band