It’s all a bit of a blur…
Up-front: my apologies for the terrible pun, which I found irresistible. I know, I’m a little simple-minded at times.
Especially after a pretty tough week. At least I’d taken a day off on Monday, the day after the wedding (we’d gone to bed at around 2 or 3 in the morning I think – that’s blurred, too!). Wednesday night I went to shoot the action of the “Champions League” of the Kempinski Hotel San Lawrenz. The first round of 5-a-side football (soccer) matches had taken place on Monday, which I’d missed. On Wednesday the kitchen, food & beverage and administration teams battled it out. And if I say battle, I mean it LOL! It was good fun to watch, but I tell you, I was glad not to be playing myself! Kick-off for the first game was around 10 pm – close to my usual bedtime – and I went home with a handful of trainees in tow just before 1 am. At that time, yet another match had only just started!! I must admit I didn’t feel that much better yesterday than the others (who had played!); you could tell by their funny way of walking, who had played. And I really don’t want to know what I would have looked like in their stead…
Vowing that I’d sleep early, I was in bed by 9.45 pm last night. I’d just fallen asleep when one of those infamous Gozo Summer night power cuts brutally silenced the fan and sent me to hell. At least that’s how it felt. I made about an hour tossing and turning and stewing, before I put 2 quilts on the floor under the window and made my bed there, hoping to catch enough draft to be able to sleep. Well I did fall asleep, eventually, but don’t ask me how I felt when I woke up…
So now the week is over. I’m sitting in full blow of a fan, sipping a glass of (chilled!!) red wine and contemplating what lies ahead: at 5 am I intend to wake up for a sunrise photo-shoot. Crazy, moi? Mais oui, biensur! LOL!
All this blabla, when all I wanted to show you were a couple of action pictures I took on Wednesday. At first, I took such blurred pics by mistake: I’d set the camera to multiple bursts of shots in an attempt not to miss the real action, but my flash didn’t manage to keep up. So I’d have one shot with flash, the next, a split-second later, without. And then I realised that I quite liked the effect… What do you think?
