Toy camera in Tuscany
It seems that every landscape photographer who visits Tuscany shoots these locations. Not always through choice, but clients love the layouts of cypress trees, isolated rustic buildings and rolling renaissance landscapes.
Once you are familiar with them you start to see these iconic scenes popping up all over the place in ads. The two farmhouses above are currently featured on the lids of rival brands of Olive spread; Bertolli and Tesco.
You will never be alone in these locations. At dawn and sunset it can be like door stepping a celebrity with the press pack. Professionals and groups on photo holidays jockey their tripods for a decent spot. The rising sun melting the mist or golden sunset lengthening shadows doesn’t last for long, so once the commissioned shots are in the bag there is time to experiment a little.
These 4 shots were taken on a Holga – a plastic toy film camera that leaks light, goes soft around the edges and vignettes the image darkening the corners.
Lovely
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Daytona Bike Week
The 100,000 bikers who invade Daytona Beach each spring look intimidating. Big men on big Harley-Davidsons wearing black leather, tattoos and a scowl.
The sort of men you would regard as worth avoiding as they were probably rather familiar to law enforcement officials and the inside of a courtroom.
However, a closer look will reveal that their ragged jeans are actually rather new and carefully torn. The tattoos are somewhat less than permanent and any familiarity with the legal system, is probably down to their employment as a lawyer.
It wasn’t that long ago that Florida’s annual bike week was the destination of choice for two wheeled gangs who brought a whole lot of trouble to the town. It got so bad that the mayor told the organisers and the police to clean it up or close it down. So, out went the street racing, nudity, fighting and public drinking and in came organised fun and a family friendly atmosphere.
Once the bikers swapped tales from the road and traded punches in bars. Now they network and exchange business cards.
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