"When Dreams Come True"
When Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, musicians and stars of the movie "ONCE" received the Oscar to Best Song for "Falling Slowly", the beautiful main theme of the movie, two years ago, Marketa encouraged in her beautiful and moving speech anyone doing something artistic to dare to dream, no matter how far out the dream seemed, for dreams can come true...
Anton and I had been HUGE fans of the movie and went to see the band Marketa and Glen created (The Swell Season) in concert before the Oscars... We saw them again (twice, so far!) after that, huge, filling Radio City Music Hall in New York with their wonderful heartfelt voices and the purity of two of the best human beings in the music industry right now... if you ever saw "ONCE", if you have attended any of their concerts, you know for sure what I mean...
Needless to say, both artists are among the people I respect and admire the most. And I dreamed of the day I could maybe meet them. Crazy dream, you may say...
Well... thanks to social media, perhaps not that much anymore...
I wrote Marketa and thanked for the wonderful work they do, and I expressed how much I would love to be able to take some photos of her one day, specially now that she's in New York City for a while. I said how big a dream that would be...
Cut to two months later, and a few things in between, and Anton and I find ourselves spending one of the nicest Sundays of our lives, having lunch with the beautiful person behind the great artist, sharing wonderful conversation, and trying to have her youthful vibrant dreamy soul captured for my camera...
I dreamed, I achieved...
And I keep on dreaming... for only when you dream far you will get somewhere...
Thank you, Marketa, for being such an extraordinary person and for your friendship and love.
Photos taken in New York City
© Sion Fullana
All rights reserved.
Do not reproduce or use without explicit permission.
This photo and number 6 in the comment section were taken with an iPhone 4. The rest of the images were taken with a Canon 50D using a 50mm 1.4f lens.
PS: UPDATE!
I apologize for changing the experience of watching these portraits by having to add watermarks, something I usually despise... But as usual, some people are totally disrespectful of the copyrights and I've seen a few of these photos already circulating on Tumblr.... without even giving me the credit. Taking these portraits was too important and beautiful an experience to let it be tainted by having to fight in the future with anyone over them... Thanks for understanding.
UPDATE #2 (Wednesday 6.46PM): Tipping my hat off to Tumblr's costumer service. After emailing them about the unauthorized usage of my copyrighted images, 5 minutes later, the images were gone from Tumblr. For once, good work.
"When Dreams Come True"
When Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, musicians and stars of the movie "ONCE" received the Oscar to Best Song for "Falling Slowly", the beautiful main theme of the movie, two years ago, Marketa encouraged in her beautiful and moving speech anyone doing something artistic to dare to dream, no matter how far out the dream seemed, for dreams can come true...
Anton and I had been HUGE fans of the movie and went to see the band Marketa and Glen created (The Swell Season) in concert before the Oscars... We saw them again (twice, so far!) after that, huge, filling Radio City Music Hall in New York with their wonderful heartfelt voices and the purity of two of the best human beings in the music industry right now... if you ever saw "ONCE", if you have attended any of their concerts, you know for sure what I mean...
Needless to say, both artists are among the people I respect and admire the most. And I dreamed of the day I could maybe meet them. Crazy dream, you may say...
Well... thanks to social media, perhaps not that much anymore...
I wrote Marketa and thanked for the wonderful work they do, and I expressed how much I would love to be able to take some photos of her one day, specially now that she's in New York City for a while. I said how big a dream that would be...
Cut to two months later, and a few things in between, and Anton and I find ourselves spending one of the nicest Sundays of our lives, having lunch with the beautiful person behind the great artist, sharing wonderful conversation, and trying to have her youthful vibrant dreamy soul captured for my camera...
I dreamed, I achieved...
And I keep on dreaming... for only when you dream far you will get somewhere...
Thank you, Marketa, for being such an extraordinary person and for your friendship and love.
Photos taken in New York City
© Sion Fullana
All rights reserved.
Do not reproduce or use without explicit permission.
This photo and number 6 in the comment section were taken with an iPhone 4. The rest of the images were taken with a Canon 50D using a 50mm 1.4f lens.
PS: UPDATE!
I apologize for changing the experience of watching these portraits by having to add watermarks, something I usually despise... But as usual, some people are totally disrespectful of the copyrights and I've seen a few of these photos already circulating on Tumblr.... without even giving me the credit. Taking these portraits was too important and beautiful an experience to let it be tainted by having to fight in the future with anyone over them... Thanks for understanding.
UPDATE #2 (Wednesday 6.46PM): Tipping my hat off to Tumblr's costumer service. After emailing them about the unauthorized usage of my copyrighted images, 5 minutes later, the images were gone from Tumblr. For once, good work.