TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS

December 2, 2025|Comments Off on TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS

TRANSATLANTIC SESSIONS: Black is the colour I usedmost when lighting ‘Transatlantic Sessions’.  It’s a great tool when you’re trying to conceal multiple shadows.  ‘Transatlantic Sessions’ is a wonderful music series brought to Pelicula Films by [...]

The AVENGERS and STUCK in a LIFT

November 7, 2025|Comments Off on The AVENGERS and STUCK in a LIFT

THE AVENGERS and STUCK in a LIFT may seem like strange bedfellows, but both came into my life about the same time – let me explain. ‘The Avengers’, is one of the most successful television [...]

PIPER ALPHA: In the Beginning (1972 – blog 2)

October 23, 2025|Comments Off on PIPER ALPHA: In the Beginning (1972 – blog 2)

I was terrified by claustrophobia and the fear of drowning. This was frontiersville where the boundaries of health and safety were nonexistent.  Piper Alpha is still the world’s worst offshore disaster in human history with [...]

SARA: Three Months in Provence (blog 3)

October 10, 2025|Comments Off on SARA: Three Months in Provence (blog 3)

For centuries, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer has hosted the World Famous Roma Pilgrimage. It’s a fabulous show full of color and pageantry. Gypsies come from all over Europe to venerate their Saint. It’s also a time for reunions [...]

SARA: Three Months in Provence (blog 2)

September 25, 2025|Comments Off on SARA: Three Months in Provence (blog 2)

I knew that absence was becoming a miserable presence in mylife and that I’d have to occupy myself at weekends when everybody else went home to Bordeaux and elsewhere. I’d befriended Thierry, one of the [...]

SARA(blog1) Three Months in Provence

September 18, 2025|Comments Off on SARA(blog1) Three Months in Provence

Picasso, Monet, van Gogh, Cezanne; writers Hemingway and Cocteau; film makers Huston and Truffaut, all found inspiration here; now there was me !! This is where flocks of pink flamingos grace the flat lands, their [...]