2025 Norwin Band Festival – Baldwin High School Photos
The Baldwin High School Marching Band performing during the 2025 Norwin Band Festival at Norwin Knights Stadium in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.https://medi-nerd.com/2025/10/15/2025-norwin-band-festival-baldwin-high-school-photos/
2025 Norwin Band Festival – Hempfield Area High School Photos
The Hempfield Area High School Marching Band performing during the 2025 Norwin Band Festival at Norwin Knights Stadium in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.https://medi-nerd.com/2025/09/25/2025-norwin-band-festival-hempfield-area-high-school-photos/
2025 Norwin Band Festival – Burrell High School Photos
The Burrell High School Marching Band performing "Feed The Machine" during the 2025 Norwin Band Festival at Norwin Knights Stadium in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.https://medi-nerd.com/2025/09/23/2025-norwin-band-festival-burrell-high-school-photos/
2025 Norwin Band Festival – South Park High School Photos
South Park High School performing at the 2025 Norwin Band Festival at Norwin Knights Stadium in North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.https://medi-nerd.com/2025/09/21/2025-norwin-band-festival-south-park-high-school-photos/
2025 Norwin Band Festival – Unedited Photos
I have uploaded the photos I took during yesterday’s Norwin Band Festival to my Smugmug page. Feel free to check them out! I will be editing photos of each group and posting them to my Flickr account over time.
2025 Norwin Band Festival – Office For The Day
Finals was canceled, but we still got all of Prelims in during the day.
2025 Norwin Band Festival – Office For The Day
Not a bad view, if I do say so myself.
Já está quase quando aparece o Fernando Correia Marques na RTP a cantar um medley das suas músicas mais conhecidas.
Acho que devia tê-las usado para a #MusiQuinta de ontem 😂.
O pior de tudo é que se existisse um equivalente do #pimba em espanhol, acho que não ia prestar-lhe nenhuma atenção.
Porque sou assim? 😅
Lens-Artists Challenge # 340: Portraits
This may sound like an invention, but it’s not. Last Saturday, after lunch, I was quietly relaxing and my thoughts turned to the possible subject of the next Lens-Artists Challenge, which this week is being hosted by Ritva. As usual, I was wondering what mischief I could have with the subject, and I thought, ‘well, just so long as it’s not portraits, I’ll be fine.’
A couple of hours later, I checked my WordPress reader and noticed that Ritva had posted her theme for the week, and my heart sank. Portraits. ‘This week, you have the opportunity to capture the essence and personality of your subjects’, says Ritva. ‘I’m not looking for professional results, but I hope you have fun trying to get the portrait to tell a story.’ Well that’s alright then, because I’m just not good with people. Check out my photos and you’ll be hard pressed to find people in them, well not recognisable anyhow, so I was feeling a bit stuck.
Then I remembered that ‘back in the day’ I used to have great a great time travelling around the region going to the annual village festivals and photographing the bands who performed there. These bands would play a genre of music known as pimba, which is best described as an upbeat form of folk music, often with lewd lyrics, though much of that is lost on me.
The bands mostly comprise of two or more lead singers with accompanying musicians and dancers, and often the performances are hugely professional, with portable stages built into lorries and excellent light shows. Mostly the villages feature local bands, but occasionally national pimba stars like Quim Barreiros would turn up. Nowadays, I tend not to go to the festivals, but a few years ago I was a regular visitor, and it was great practise for concert photography.
I also used to cover a local heavy metal festival, Vagos Open Air (latterly Vagos Metalfest) for a Canadian heavy metal website, Metal Rules. These used to be excellent festivals, though it was suspended for a couple of years during the Pandemic and is only just getting back on its feet again. Nowadays I don’t get to the Festival since it coincides with our summer holidays, but I do miss those heavy metal weekends. If you want to see some reports, they can be found here, and here, and here, and here.
Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.
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Bom dia, Portugal!
O que gostam de fazer nos domingos?
Tenho de confessar que, após chegar aqui dos Estados Unidos, eu achei que as tardes dos domingos na televisão portuguesa eram uma festa.
Isso levou-me a descobrir um dos maiores tesouros deste país — a música #pimba 🇵🇹:
https://escrevoemportugues.wordpress.com/2023/06/10/pimba-de-portugal/
