The night before our son was born I was still working late at another cool Bacardi Visita event in the Las Palmas II venue in Rotterdam. After a somewhat slow night (not in quantity of people or drinks being consumed) things went massively crazy in the last hour. With so much red and purple lights in a mostly dim lit room exposure settings are a nightmare. This was taken on a manual of 1/15th of a sec. at f2.8 and 400ISO. The red flares are usually a problem with this sort of light but in this case it adds a nice bit of extra power to the shot.
Images from two weeks ago, long overdue to being abroad too much lately, when Bacardi Visita went sailing on the Pureliner ship in Amsterdam. Simply a very hot edition! Enjoy the slideshow…
The third edition of Bacardi Visita in the Undercurrent Spaces (Amsterdam North). August 15th 2009. With Full Crate, Fs Green, Grand Jackson, Girls Love DJ’s, Louis La Roche, David Vunk, Home Made.
With the Freshest Kidz, Ben Westbeech, Makossa & Megablast, NBTD & Boemklatsch Bacardi Visita ended up in the old Mail Office in Rotterdam (Post). Again a sweetly small-scale party with plenty of good drinks and sounds from very smooth to extremely wild. No time for a real update as I’m shooting ski’s and snowboards again these next two weeks…
A dance party a a homely location, Bacardi hits it off with an amazing new concept: Bacardi Visita. I was seriously impressed how an office floor got converted to a hot-hot-hot-partynight! With Beesmunt Soundsystem, Steven de Peven, Mocky and Golden Bug.
The idea of this new Bacardi concept is to recreate the old and glorious Cuban partynights hosted by the family-owned Bacardi company. Like entering someones livingroom and hitting it off with hot music, atmosphere and freshly mixed drinks.
My job was to capture this atmosphere and combine the old with the new. With a setting like this and a good bit off camera-tweaking I think it came out pretty well. A hot Cuban night with friends captured in stills. Enjoy!
Busy as it is I haven’t had the time to work on the images (not a big fan of ding so anyway).. all these are straight from the camera… hope that’s good enough for you!
Full gallery here…
Sad, sad, sad… Saturday was the final whistle for the last major Bacardi event (once started as Batbeats, later went on as B-Live). In an absolutely soaring Paradiso things went wild with a DJ sets orchestrated by Mr. Wix. A packed house saw De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Le Le, Beesmunt Soundsystem, Daniel Haaksman and Scottie B and Wix himself. Un unbelieveable atmosphere, seriously one of the best editions and a great way to end this series after 4 years.
Serious highlights of the evening was the Marchingband Reflection (!) collaboration with de Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, the Le Le set and live artwork and ofcourse Mr. Wix himself with too many original tracks.
Guess that’s it for one of the nicest party series of the past few years. I’ll miss the big events but they will be replaced with smaller ones. Coming soon near you.
Oh what a night! After three continuous weeks of shooting all over European Alps with a broken arm (and not to mention doing Trance Energy as well) it was time for the last one of this very busy month. But what a great way to finish a shooting spree.
Bacardi and Rotterdam mix perfectly with Benny Rodrigues creating a fantastic line-up with the likes of: Leroy Styles, Version & Atjazz Ft Emilie Chick (aka Charles Webster), Rolando, Prunk Le Funk , The Freshest Kidz, Civil and himself ofcourse.
Great atmosphere, great people, perfect music made for one of the better editions of this already great Bacardi series. Check the full gallery here.
Quite a bit of work but I’ve just finished transferring lots of partypics (from 2005 and onwards) to the new website.
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