The Problem With Teaching Photography ...
The problem ... sometimes your lovely clients decide they might enjoy working through your photo-phobia and take more than a few photographs of you.
But we had so much fun and I think Gabrielle captured that in her series.
And one of our lovely waiters at Douce, suffering from the same kind of phobia as I, was also captured, there in the centre.
Thank you to Gabrielle. I had to share. She's good.
A Photography Workshop With Gabrielle in Italy
I can write, without exaggeration, that every single photography client I've worked with has made me feel so very privileged to know them.
Gabrielle was no different to all those who came before her. And perhaps it's the fact that the workshops are all about photography & travel. Or that they happen in Italy or Antwerp or that they attract women who are ready to wander or already wandering. Like-minded souls out there in the world.
I end up feeling like I'm working with old friends. People I would choose to spend time with. People who somehow manage to pack so much life into the hours we have to work together.
Gabrielle and I walked all over Genova, ate some divine food, met at Douce every morning for breakfast (and returned there whenever we could think of a reason). We dined at Il Genovese and enjoyed it intensely, we explored Castelletto and Boccadasse, found exquisite gelato and took a million photographs too.
It was a special few days. Grazie mille, Gabrielle!!
Remembering Good Food and Good Friends
Last week ... this was the dinner starter at Il Genovese.
It's a little of this, a little of that, to be shared between five. Outi, my Finnish friend living in Liguria. Alessandra and Davide, lovely Italian friends from Genova. And Gabrielle, my Australian client, the one who has become a lovely friend too.
The food was exquisite ... of course, and the company.
Today finds me at my desk and working, back here in Belgium, freezing. I'm wearing Fiona's hand-knitted woolen rainbow socks and warm clothes. It's grey, cold and raining, and I remembered this photograph.
Mmmhmmm, I just had peanut butter on toast and a coffee for lunch.
I miss Genovese food.
Hidden Corner, Genova
I'm back in Belgium for now. I'm not sure what's happening next but tomorrow has to be a day spent working after this day lost to cleaning here in the house.
Microguagua - street power Reggae!
These guys.
I was in awe of the high-energy, joy-filled street performance of the Reggae band called Microguagua.
I bought one of their cds because I wanted their music back in Belgium.
They're brilliant. Seeing them perform live made me smile. Perhaps I caught a sense of them here but honestly, their music makes you smile.
I found them out in Via San Lorenzo, in Genova. I had to stop for some photographs.