tilting at windmills
Toronto. Photo collectors revel in well illuminated, correctly exposed and framed old photos from daguerreotypes to paper prints.
In the 1960s, I had the pleasure of attending a performance of ‘Man of La Mancha‘ at O’Keefe Centre here in the big smoke. The simple stage settings were cleverly combined with a lighting technique that was just short of magic.
To this day, the last scene remains burned in my memory. The stage lighting carefully shifts your eye from Don Quixote’s dream to the reality of his prison. All this takes place during the infamous Spanish Inquisition. In his dreams, Don Quixote reminisces how he and side kick Sancho, go off on adventures such as tilting at windmills (Quixote thinks they are enemies) only to come crashing back to reality and their prison cell.
Photo collectors can learn about the power of lighting by attending such performances. Lighting knowledge can be put to good use at one of our events this year to discriminate amongst the many photos offered to carefully add just those special images to their collection.
