Who remembers the old song, https://tinyurl.com/7pactxb4 ? Now it's definitely not just men, as seen yesterday. The whole Wallenda family participates. Mrs. C was so impressed with them that she was talking about going back to see the show again. It only runs for nine more days so I don't think we will have time.
The complex play of curves and lines reminds me of early 20th Century semi-abstract art. There is a lot of energy in the action of the trapeze artists at Circus Flora.
St. Louis is back in the oven today while we are off to cooler climes.
Who remembers that old song - the daring young men (and women) on the flying trapeze? This is one of the reasons people come to the circus, to watch people do things at frightening heights that we in the audience could not imagine doing. Notice that the man is supporting the woman with just his feet under her arms. And with such grace!
Circus Flora's performance this weekend was a scaled-down, late pandemic affair. There were no full trapeze acts like I saw the last time I took my granddaughter. A swing had to suffice but I could not have imagined how beautifully someone could dance on a bar in the air.
Our scaled down circus performance this weekend had all local performers. Shooting this was quite a photographic challenge, with movement and extreme dynamic range. For the techies out there, this was shot at ISO 6400, 1/240, f 2.0, on a Fujifilm XS-10 with in-body image stabilization and a 35 mm prime lens with a 1.5 crop factor. Go ahead and use that for an icebreaker at a cocktail party. Fine with me.
Note that the man is supporting the woman with one bare foot under her neck and another under her thigh. I can't imagine rehearsing this.
