Just finished a great shoot for Revolution Strategies and Tourism and Parks working with a great crew and a director and cameraman from Los Angeles. Let there be light could have been the theme for the assignment. For this jazz shot we used a room from a 1950s Legion type room. Bare and old. But Jim knows how to light up a place and with a bit of help from a fog machine we were away to the races. Well good lighting and the new digital cameras from Nikon that let you shoot so close to darkness.

Even though we saw a lot of rain in Italy, a lot, there were sunny breaks as well for us and for the rider of the Giro d’Italia, second only to the Tour de France among bike races. We arrived in Porto Recanati five hours before the bikes and got to drive down their entrance route- quite a thrill in itself as the route was already being festooned with pink banners and road markers. But once we had a run through the booths and shops, sat on the beach and had some seafood, we staked out a spot where we could get a good view of the live animal that is the peloton. Only I didn’t have a clue what blinding whir it would be. Helicopter crews, sirens and horns alerted us to its arrival and I started shooting, but before I could take a deep breath they were gone, only the sounds of spinning tires and electric colours stayed with me for a few minutes after their passing- a long wait, a fast rush by, but worth every second of it- 45 minutes later they looped by again for more of the same. The second rider in this pack is Basso who finally came out on top to claim the Giro. One very happy Italian.