as legendary as the race, is the fact that it always rains at this event, heavily – as in floodlike. so it was predicted for this year either, but against all forecasts, after 5 minutes of dripping around noon the day turned to the complete opposite.. still we got our dose of mud after dark, when the after-race party with the fabulous binder-krieglstein on stage took place.

yesterday, arena, vienna.. the fabulous dresden dolls.. again. following my pics of krems/donaufestival i got invited to shoot in the arena as well, officially.. which doesn’t necessarily make a difference, but at least one has an armstrap to show if one of the venue’s staff is getting too curious bout a big lens..

“3 songs from the ditch” – ok .. why not.. though i’m usually using the first songs to watch band and light from a little distance, but if i may.. why not. as expected, it was rather useless.. way too close, and obstacles like video-tripods aren’t too helpfull either to get to the proper angle.. and the timelimit of 3 songs is way to tight.. the rest i thought i would shoot from the crowd, but uh-oh.. never seen the arena that full, so plan b was to get up to the gallery and hoping folks up there would let me to the frontrow – which worked out. but that means that most of the time i shot from one and the same position – hence variance has to happen in post-production/presentation, so i decided to try square only crops.. for now.. will put up another gallery with a different selection and crops if time serves..

[update] did i say different crops?.. nah.. let’s do no crops at all, those are as out of camera, just with a little less color ;) to the gallery [/update]

concert in general was a good show as always, though esp. amanda looked quite tired to me yet.. guess touring that long takes it’s toll.. light was good (that’s why the light-guy got his pic of fame either 8)), though krems still was a tad bit better..

also have some shots of the rare instances when thomas truax (who played support) got some light shed on him and/or was on stage, will put them up some time later.. hang on.. [update] here they are [/update]

[to solve the mystery 'bout this post's title - likely noone will get it who hasn't been at the show.. amanda twisted some words in the beginning of "first orgasm" .. which should have said "i make some coffee I eat some rice chex" .. go figure.. 8)]