Friday, March 26, 2010

Faces in Sedona

I spent 4 days last week in Sedona Arizona, in the high desert red rock country, along with my wife and one of my daughters.
Had a great time doing some site seeing and photography. Here's a few fun pictures to share with all of you.
{ you can click on any of the pictures to enlarge them }

This first picture of the little girl is from a restaurant, she was in the booth next to us, her grandmother called her "Love Bug". She kept looking over at us with those great big eyes making direct eye contact like only a child without any inhibitions will do. The light was streaming in from this window right above the booths, made for a fun picture. After I snapped a few pictures though, she decided she was afraid of the big o'l camera/lens and would hide behind her mother whenever I'd try to take her picture again. I finally put the camera down and promised her I wouldn't take anymore pictures and she was happy with that.


I also took that opportunity to catch a shot of my daughter in that same great light outlining her face and highlighting her hair.


And then there were the 'Tree People'. Outside of Sedona there are a number of wineries (who would've guessed), which we were checking out. At one of them they had put these eyes/nose/mouth figures onto some of the trees in the parking area. Got a real kick out of those, fun idea. Oh yea, the wine is actually pretty good, if you are ever in the area it's worth checking out. The 'Tree People' kinda remided me of the ones in the second Lord of the Rings movie.


Well, that's it for now.

David Gralian
www.davidgralian.com

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Cheers, Bjarne

Saturday, March 13, 2010

The Prez

















Shot with D3, at ISO 1600 and available light.

Learned a valuable lesson, never try to engage a Secret Service Agent in a conversation.
Hope every one is well!




Saturday, March 6, 2010

Gerd Parkholt

Gerd Parkholt is the Grand Old Lady of the Skagen Folk Music Festival in Denmark. 40 years ago she invited some friends and a couple of folk musicians to her home and the rest is history. Skagen Festival is the oldest existing music festival in Denmark.

Last year Gerd held her 90th birthdayparty and she is still going strong.

The portraits are made for a book by journalist Joergen Pyndt, TV2 Nord. It will be published this summer to celebrate the jubilee. I have made pictures for the festival for 10 years and many of the pics will be in the book.


Gerd has decorated the walls in the hall room with newspaper cuttings and pictures of musicians, friends and family. Friends like Tom Paxton, Donovan, Allan Taylor, Arlo Guthrie, The Dubliners and many more.

In her bathroom friends, musicians and family has made poetry, greetings and jokes on the tile walls.

Enjoy the spring!
Bjarne