Greg Rybczynski

Sunday I took my car and drove 80 km to a place called Legnica. A smaller city with history of Russian Army stationing here during Cold War times. Anyway, I got direct to Qubus Hotel where the competition should take place. And i took. Only 11 contestant (remember – smaller city), so the show was shorter, though the number of pictures is smaller this time. The show was led by a pretty well known actor Cezary Pazura, who entertained the audience while the girls were in the dressing room. Enjoy.

This week the election took place in my home city. As usuall held in the Renoma shopping center. This stage has normally good lighting, so it was this time. The models were instructed to walk to the end of runway and stop there in the spot, but as always some of them missed the point or fought they were blinded by the light, which is good for me, not necessary for her. Anyway, Wroclaw always gain big attention, so there were lot of people. The aftershow was held in the Casino in nearby hotel. The girl with nr 6 won this time, which is good as she was good. So the new queen has arrived to Wroclaw for next 12 months. Miss Wroclaw 2012.

I went back to the idea from 2010 to shoot some beauty contests, especially Miss Polonia. It seems many readers appreciate the pictures of beautiful young ladies, so I load the gallery with more pics then usual. This time the contest took place in Walbrzych‘s Victoria Gallery. There have been pretty good public, mainly Saturday shopping center visitors, which took a look at the contestants between tugs of pizza and hot dogs. Anyway the show was short but not so bad. See you soon.

Last week in April I visted Paris to meet some of my friends from Jarre team. I had a nice dinner with Claude and his wife talking about his present work. On Sunday I had lunch with Jerome and we also talked a bit about his future plans.
 
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After Plock in 2010, now was time for a concert in another smaller city called Bydgoszcz, located between Warsaw and Gdansk. We arrived at 15.45 to the local airport and proceed direct to Soundcheck. That one went well with no squawks.

The venue filled up with over 4500 spectators and the show was hot. Always the polish audience is hot. As a bonus JM played once again RV-4 after the Fin de Siecle. He received a beautifully flower set and that’s it. Farewell to Poland. Rather quick packing this time in order to get out from Bydgoszcz prior the airport closing. Bad weather in Vienna forced the pilot to divert to nearby Bratislava, so a night van travel from Bratislava to Vienna was necessary, but this is another story…

For myself the tour is over. I scored thousands of photos, mainly portraits of JM. As You know from previous posts a photobook was released and signed by all the crew members portraited there. The book exists in 4 signed copies and it’s a real rarity. Maybe it will be auctioned with some Charity Auction in the future.

Once again THANKS for all artists, management and the crew for the opportunity. Hope to see You next year. Was it already February in …? I say no more!

JM arrived to Warsaw Frederick Chopin Airport shortly past 2 PM, and rushed directly to Empik store to receive the Gold Record for his Essentials & Rarities album. After signing over 200 records for the fans waiting in long line, he went direct to soundcheck at Torwar venue. Last time, Torwar was the place the band has concluded the Oxygen tour on 1 Dec 2008.

Still iPad issues and tuning, otherwise no more surprises. See the pics. The Warsaw audience was to small, we could expect better from that big city. Anyway, the concerts was a success. JM happy afterwards, but You can see that the crew is exhausted after over 5 weeks of touring, adding some flu and cold on top of it. Anyway nobody is complaining and everybody is up to 100%.

Staying in a hotel just side by side with the Presidents Palace (Belweder), we had no choice, but to dive in to the hotel bar and drink the new Belvedere Intense vodka with few of musician before going to bed. Tomorrow is a heavy day. Flight to Bydgoszcz and then to Vienna direct after show.