Leica – 3 (Santana @ Bestfest 2009)

Kodak Portra
ASA 800
37 frames
Processed in C41 @ minilab
Scan: Canon CanoScan 4400f

Every year we (the photographers) wait for BestFest to open his gates and put on an unforgettable show.  Every year we hope to get photo-passes. Every year someone gets to slam the door in our faces. They give those passes to magazine photographers and even then … only if your employer is a hot-shot. But I digress. The big idea is that for the past 2 years I`ve reinvented the concept of getting past security with photo gear.

This year I wanted to try something different. They let you in with compact cameras … but if they see you with a interchangeable lens in your backpack they might not let you in. So a rangefinder should do the trick … I thought.

Well it did. I had the camera in a handbag and the lens in a friend`s purse, so getting past security was pretty easy.

The concert was fantastic. It rained all day and it stopped just before Carlos Santana got on the stage. My father smiled 2 hours non-stop, and waved his hands along with the crowd … priceless!

That day at BestFest I used a Rollei Retro 400 (you can see it in action in my Leica -2 blog-post), a Kodak Portra 800 (the one you see in this blog-post) a Fuji Reala 400 and a Fuji Superia 1600. You get to see these last two in a few days.

So, enjoy these 37 frames.

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