066 - Slawek blues lights

066 - Slawek blues lights
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

This is another rescued from the blurred blues session, and I was more interested in playing around with the image than anything else. The lights on the right come from another image and have been heavily edited and not entirely successfully incorporated in, but it was only an experiment to conceal a boring right hand edge to the image. The background and the left part of the image were edited separately.

My mind was really elsewhere, on trying to try and get exhibition space for the upcoming Noc Kultury (night of culture) here in Lublin - which will be my first ever exhibition ever, and as a consequence is extremely worrying. At the moment I have no idea how many images, nor how I am going to appropriately print out and frame them as I have never done either.

Some of the images need Polish subtitling, but that is a minor issue, as is fixing the final edits and even choosing the images. The theme will be based on Lublin in terms of tradition and the problems related to this as seen from someone who has come from the outside.

EDGY041 blues evening

EDGY041 blues evening
Originally uploaded by gingerpig2000

I spent an evening in a local bar with friends, a relatively rare even during the winter as many bar and restaurant owners here still believe they should have custom by right and not by making conditions comfortable - and so heating is often minimal.

The attraction of this bar is that it offers a corner in the main room where anyone can come in and play the blues, and as a result most tuesdays and thursdays some students and locals assemble and have a session, and you can even talk someone in to giving you lessons in a back room. There was some talk a year ago of ending these jam sessions but, to be honest, even with a huge student campus nearby the bar would die as there are other, warmer places to spend one's time.

I certainly drank too much beer, had a long talk with a drummer I had never met before, but managed to find a taxi to get me home as there was a lot of snow out there and the temperature was far below freezing. I have often walked long distances through unknown territory to get home or to the hotel, but even in my inebriated state I realized that this was not going to be one of those times.

So, instead of attempting to use blue to show a blue-with-cold blues bar, I warmed it up with red. At least then the memory will be warmer. Most of the photos I took were blurred, perhaps partly due to my inebriated state but mainly due to the very low light conditions. This has meant I had to do even more than my normal exploration of color to get images that satisfy me.