Tuesday, 01 June 2010 19:15

Atlantida Fish Tavern, Geroskipou

Written by Mike
Flaming torches in the garden of the Atlantida Fish Tavern, Geroskipou, Paphos District, Cyprus, 28 May 2010 Flaming torches in the garden of the Atlantida Fish Tavern, Geroskipou, Paphos District, Cyprus, 28 May 2010

We were invited to the Atlantida to meet some friends, one of whom was organising a wedding there.

As a subject, weddings leave me cold.  I can't be doing with the posing and making sure you haven't missed Aunt Gertrude (the one with the silly hat) out of the pictures.

I'm reminded of a wedding photographer we knew in London.  On the desktop of his PC were three folders; 'Ugly Brides', 'Fat Brides' and 'Fat, Ugly Brides'.  Hey ho...

So I took a wander.  It was the end of the afternoon, the time when the light is fun and makes even a dustbin look great.

I got some pictures, and then we ate.

The wedding's disco kicked off, so I had a play with the colours.  Always good fun - especially when you get home and play your own tunes with hue and saturation to come up with some wacky pictures.

Afterwards I took a stroll in the garden.  The flaming torches were too good to miss, especially when I was able to get two groups of three highlights into the background behind one of them.

And then to cap it all, the 'Wave Dancer' - moored just off the beach - set off a firework display. 

Fireworks are one of those subjects that's tricky.  It's dark, but you need a fast shutter speed.  I ended up at ISO 800, 1/30th second and f5.6.  Worked a treat...

Enjoy the pictures at my Geroskipou Album.

Mike

Mike

Mike McCormac has been a photographer since about ten years old.  He's a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and lives in a village in the hills near Paphos in Cyprus.

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