Mallorca

A few from Mallorca.  All shot with the X10 and all edited in Snapseed.  All bar the first were edited on the iPad.

Es Firo

Every year in mid-May the town of Soller in Mallorca goes completely mental to mark the invasion at the port of a gang of marauding Moors and their subsequent drubbing out of town.  It's a weekend of much eating and drinking, but also of community and shared experiences.  There are guns, smoke and firecrackers.  It's a blast, literally.

As with a lot of the recent posts, these shots were all taken with the X10.  It was the only camera I took with me (apart from my phone) to Mallorca.  The Firo was quite a test for the X10.  It was very sunny at the port in the afternoon and the light was fading later on in the square.  I also missed quite a few because the focus hadn't locked on quite quickly enough.  That said, I was pleased with this selection.  I'll have a few other Mallorca shots to post later in the week.

Prime Sunday

So, over on Facebook, Matt Hart has started up a group called Prime Sunday.  The idea being that he will set a challenge each week that people go and use a given lens, or camera, or phone or whatever for a Sunday.  This week was the 50mm.  I'd forgotten about it until later in the evening and I'd spent most of the day driving anyway.  So here's a quickly grabbed trio from the garden.  Canon 50mm f/1.4 all shot wide open on the 5D.

Tomo

While the impact of Sea Odyssey is still being assessed and Liverpool recovers from a massive hangover resulting from such an immense event, there are still things to be shot, even if the scale is not quite so ambitious.  I was made aware of this piece from browsing flickr during the week, so I thought I'd go and check it out.  It's by local street artist Tomo and there's a few more shots of his work below. Coincidentally, within minutes of me posting this shot on flickr I had a message from Double Negative to say that he was their artist of the month.  He's been short listed for the Liverpool Art Prize.  A brave move by the organisers perhaps, but a move of which I very much approve.

Viva la Liverpool

For 3 days Liverpool has been taken over by the spectacular Sea Odyssey story from French street theatre outfit Royal de Luxe to mark the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic.  This was a massive event that was expected to see about 250,000 people turn out on the streets to see the giants march past.  As it happened, it is reckoned that the turnout was twice that number.

Every penny that went into this was easily repaid many, many times over.  Liverpool loves stuff like this and to see all the spectators revelling in the show easily justifies the money spent on it.  And, judging by the last shot in this post, it seems that Royal de Luxe enjoyed being here as much as we enjoyed having them.  It's a piece of paper stuck on the windscreen of a car belonging to one of the organisers.  

Viva la Liverpool.