Ah, the music. The part that I was brought to the Mill for. Having two very entertaining women to enjoy said music with was merely the start. Alas, the band was set, and picking up where I left off from part 1, the violinist now had his instrument in agreement with his ears, the sound engineer, and most importantly, The Bard.
My eyes were transfixed on the band. One eye, most of the time, peering through the viewfinder, trying to make out details using a rather wide-angle lens (24mm). Low light be damned, I continued to snap more frames. Despite my quite outdated camera body, its extended ISO of 3200 combined with f/1.4 glass, was able to both auto-focus, and still make manageable images while shooting at f/2.8. The relative accuracy of the focusing was impressive, considering I could barely make out the details myself. But I could observe with relative ease the only photographic caveat, No Flash.
The band played song after song, their hands moving deftly for each set of frets, at times with dizzying accuracy and speed. My two companions, were in another plane of existence for fleeting instants, feeling the music and moving softly to it. I desperately wanted to capture them with my lens, but the single candle that offered its meager illumination to our table was just not enough to do anything with.
Following the first set, we recovered, the Bard went out for a smoke, and Ms. Devil and I stood up and stretched a bit, and conferred about our plans for the weekend.
The band duly returned with another set, which would ultimately take us to the limits of our responsibility. The second set was equally good as the first, but by this time I was getting rather tired. The motivation of good music to stay awake could not change the fact that we all had to get up in the morning for work. As the second intermission began, we made our break for the exit.
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