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USA – Hawaii

February 20, 2015 by Paolo Leave a Comment

Since I had to cross the Pacific I also paid a visit to my friends Peter and Suzy who kindly coped with me for a few days 🙂

Here are some shots from the Big Island, or Hawaii.

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I had to see Mauna Kea (some claim it’s the highest mountain on the planet if measured from its base in the ocean). The summit at 4200m is home to super telescopes and arrays like the famous Keck.

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While there I also took some behind-the-scene shots of a local TV show that Peter was directing. Ronald Gordon, PhD. Professor of Communications at the University of Hawaii interviewing Dr. Gay Swenson Barfield, co-founder (with Carl Rogers) and former Director of the Carl Rogers Peace Project.

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New York City 2014

November 2, 2014 by Paolo Leave a Comment

I was here briefly for the opening of the International Photography awards. It’s always overwhelming to see your work on display 🙂

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And… I had to take a few shots around Manhattan

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USA – Los Angeles

November 23, 2012 by Paolo 2 Comments

Plenty of good locations to shoot downtown and elsewhere but sick of the bad weather, I decided to go to the desert. I thought to myself “What are the chances that will rain there?”. Well, eventually it did but for only 10 minutes.

So I booked a room in the town of Indio, about 3 hours drive east.

The drive-in motel reminded me of freaky No Country For Old Men for some reason and I wasn’t too “impressed” either when I found a copy of the bible in a drawer.

After overcoming my made-in-Hollywood paranoia I managed to make my way to Joshua Tree National Park and shot a multitude of locations.

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Once back in town I enjoyed some rush-hour-nerve-wracking traffic congestions while shooting locations in – finally – sunny LA 🙂

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Many thanks to my friends Peter, Suzy and Michael for making my stay here in LA just great!

USA – New York City

October 30, 2012 by Paolo 2 Comments

Finally on the road again!!!!!

This time the plan is a quick 2-month-long (October+November) around the globe location shooting trip for my CGI stuff (backplates and HDRs) that should keep me busy in the coming cold, dark and claustrophobic winter time. The set itinerary for now is New York City, Los Angeles, Fiji, Sydney, Singapore and a-still-unplanned Indonesia.  The latter mostly based on a documentary/travel key instead.

The stitching and processing time for the location shoots is proving rather time consuming and an average of 2,5 days per stop excluding travelling time – here’s a piece of my analytical Saxonised side for you 😉 – doesn’t help a regular and quick update of the blog. As a matter of fact doesn’t help keeping in contact with family and friends either – sorry mum!!!

I am already half way through my journey, in sweaty equatorial Singapore and I finally managed/decided to “chill and update”. I only have a NYC kind-of-done gallery to post for now but… watch this space 🙂

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