Last
Thursday was a hectic but fun day. My house guest Curtis Daily who plays the
baroque bass and lives in Portland was in Vancouver to play with the Pacific
Baroque Orchestra and guest conductor violinist Monica Huggett. They played on
the next day on Friday at Christ Church Cathedral.
Daily in
between rehearsals managed to find the needed concentration to swap his very
large Venetian bass for a not quite as large Mamiya RB-67. We had obtained the
magnificent presence of my friend Olena ( a Ukranian who lived In Colombia so
she speaks excellent Castillian).
The hectic part consisted in the fact that Olena brought everything except her kitchen sink. It took a while for Daily to decide what would be worn (or not).
Daily did
have one important goal. This was to photograph that huge (and heavy Olena told
us) bass with a female figure. We decided that the very narrow room where we
keep our 100 year-old restored Chickering baby grand would be the ideal
location as my little studio would have made it claustrophobic if we managed to
include the bass in it.
Because
Olena has bright blue hair we opted for a secondary light as a hair light. We
equipped it with a dark blue gel.
Daily’s
Fuji instant prints looked perfect to my eyes. I am sure that his film, once processed
will deliver equally perfect results. I chose to snap some photographs with my
Fuji X-E1.
