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<\/a><\/a>What made this more interesting, and infinitely more complicated, was the directors inability to understand that I don’t work for free…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once this was sorted out (and it took 6 days…) we moved on…to a REAL spectacle. This was \u00ab\u00a0Interpr\u00e8te<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb by the Cheptel Ale\u00efkoum\/Maxime Mestre. I know the company well, and while for this spectacle there was only Maxime on stage, the rest of the troupe are here in Auch for virtually a whole month’s \u00ab\u00a0residence\u00a0\u00bb – they have asked me to work for them towards the end of the month – great news – they seem to like what I’ve done for them in the past!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We enjoyed FANTASTIC weather during our weekend on the Atlantic coast – sunshine the whole time, good grub and lots to photograph (although all I seem able to do when the sun comes out, is point my camera at it – this is particularly frustrating to people who follow me on FLICKR as it seems every image has the sun in it somewhere… <\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, it was<\/strong> rather convenient to have the vestiges of a number of WWll blockhouses just laying there on the beach…so photogenic…<\/p>\n\n\n\n This week after ‘covering’ the show at CiRCa, I ran a photo workshop, with a number of adolescents, overseen by the local authorities. The kids had to photograph a number of key places here in the town, and I had to be on hand to ‘help’ in case they had photo related questions. I managed to keep my head down and followed everyone around, listening to our guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s very difficult trying to get a ‘different’ angle on a building that has been photographed many millions of times before…<\/p>\n\n\n\n The guide gave us all square mirrors, and it was unusual to be able to walk around and try to navigate just by looking up…<\/p>\n\n\n\n What on earth will I come up with to occupy myself next week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quite a lot going on at the moment – a weekend on the coast, a couple of circus residencies, a photo workshop….let’s start at the beginning. The last week of January brought another circus company to Auch, with their version of Tchaikovsky’s \u00ab\u00a0Swan Lake\u00a0\u00bb – interesting watching a man romping around in a ‘tutu’… What … <\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>