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I Greci pensavano che la danza fosse un regalo degli Dei per dimenticare i propri dolori e le preoccupazioni! Per gli antichi Greci era considerata tra le più gentili espressioni dell’uomo e parte importante dell’educazione dei loro figli.
In nessun paese europeo la danza locale è così viva e così legata alla vita quotidiana, come in Grecia. Ci sono paesi stranieri con un maggior numero di gruppi di danza. Tuttavia, in questi Stati la danza è sopravvissuta solo grazie agli spettacoli. Raramente gli abitanti balleranno le loro danze nelle feste dei paesi, nei matrimoni, o nelle taverne, come avviene in Grecia.
Per nessun altro popolo la danza ha un ruolo così importante, come mezzo di “mantenimento dell’Identità Nazionale”!
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
-Miguel Angel Ruiz
Once this was done for horse carriage. The style and the ornation have not changed a bit, even if now they do for motorcarriages.
The Zlatorog is a superb Slovenia folk beast/hero, who when shot by a hunter goes wild in rage and gores out a valley from rock.
A chamois or mountain goat, I kind of saw his determined, wild eyes and horns in the flow of the water. It's shot just downstream from this light painting at the Mala Savica stone bridge which I took last year.
If you get there early and work as the night falls, you forget how horrifically scary it is when it's dark. And by then you have to leave anyway. It's easy to understand how these folk tales, and grimmer ones, came to life in Central Europe. Walking along with a military spec LED and second torch to light my way is a thing of terror, even though there's nothing in the woods. Try that with whale oil in a sputtering lantern and bears, wolves, bandits, etc. lurking in the shadows.
Still - this was an experiment. The left is lit with feathered continuous light from an LED. The right is lit from below with a single 1/8 power zap from a Canon 600EX-RT. Without adding light the scene would have been black.
I started shooting long exposure in urban surrounds, looking for scenes with movement that could be blurred over ten minutes. As I started to shoot long exposure in the country, things looked flat. Movement being blurred, it turned out, isn't what appealed to me in the urban environments - rather it was the way that light sources were limited, and how that changed the mood.
The more I shoot rural long exposure, the more I find that means adding light to sculpt the scene to your vision - or you are left, to my mind, a little flat.
Hope everyone is having an incredible start to the weekend!
This is one of many shots taken in Beverley Hills when I went to interview Charles Bragg in his Beverley Hills home / studio. It was a fun trip and I am grateful for the time he gave me that day.
Photograph by Damian Michaels (c) 1992
On the end they were giving out home made cookies ,and a WALNUT ,which had a message inside ! My message told . Send me a christmas card please ! There were name and addres
Traditional Sikh folk dancers, carved in stone. From the streets of Amritsar, Punjab.
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My effort for Macro Mondays on the theme of Lockdown Song - I've listened to loads of types of music but folk is the newest type I listen to.