New city, new group, same rituals:

I’ve never come as close to a depiction of paradise as with this picture:

Last weekend I went to my fourth —I guess, I lost count— annual capoeira camping in Wapse and it was again a resounding success. I’ve got the pictures to prove it.

Shot a guerilla Christmas vid of the gang after last Thursday’s training:

These last couple of months we’ve been having regular music lessons. It’s a lot of fun and we are making crazy progress.

This is Divino playing something awesome which we’ll be learning very soon.

My days in Berkeley/Oakland used to be filled with:
 

And now my days are filled with:

Tomorrow it’s back to the city and doing some last things before flying back early Sunday morning.

A weekend with friends for me only reaches conclusion after the pictures have been edited and placed online. The process takes some time but also allows/forces me to relive it. This time the process has been further prolonged because I have to wait until somewhere next week to pick up my developed film.

Last weekend in Wapse with friends was quite awesome, here are some stills:

Back from holiday, the surf was mostly flat but a good time was had, judging from the pictures on Flickr.

Normal service will resume here at least until half of August when I will break shortly for Wapsen and maybe thereafter a bit longer for the former Yugoslavia.

It’s been a week but I’ve just gotten around to processing them after the event. Here’s a small selection of capoeira pictures:

The barbecue (and the alcohol) also make for some interesting group pictures. There’s the traditional group with everybody on it:

And I had a lot of fun shooting a set with the girls:

Last week we had the batizado for our group with people coming in from Amsterdam, Norway, London and Portugal just to celebrate this event together. The batizado with associated parties and barbecues is a highlight of the year and this year proved to be a great amount of fun.

Traditionally the batizado ends on Sunday with a churrasco and having everybody together and mellow is a nice opportunity to shoot some pictures. For this set I took gnomo‘s Nikon with 50mm f/1.4, a splendid lens if ever there is one and I ambushed everybody for their portrait within 10 minutes.

Here’s a small selection: