{"id":9698,"date":"2020-04-11T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T12:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/?p=9698"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:51:13","slug":"professional-musicians-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/index.php\/professional-musicians-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Musicians Portrait | The Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being in lockdown in London does feel very strange. I\u2019ve heard it referred to as the \u201cBig Pause in Life\u201d and that\u2019s exactly how it feels to me. As all my family photography sessions have been postponed I now have a lot of time\u00a0on my hands. I\u2019ve settled into a new, much slower routine and find myself with space\u00a0to think. I started wondering about all the new hobbies people might be taking up. And this\u00a0reminded me of one of my favourite films \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In this brilliant film the main character, a TV weatherman, finds himself reliving the same day over and over again. At the beginning this drives him to distraction, but after a while he turns the situation to his advantage. One of the things he decides to do is learn the piano. In his first music lesson you can hear he is a beginner, by the end he\u2019s a virtuoso pianist! It\u2019s so funny in the film, but made me think what might be possible during this lockdown. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll manage to do anything as remarkable as master the piano, but I am enjoying having time to do other things I enjoy. Baking, reading, solving sudokus, jigsaws, online yoga. And\u00a0my biggest achievement so far \u2013 learning how to work the Sky Box!<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to get back to all my family photography sessions, London vacation photoshoots and musicians portrait sessions. But for now I\u2019m going to make the best\u00a0of the situation as it is. I am just so grateful that my family and friends are all safe and well.<\/p>\n<h2>Professional musicians portrait of a fantastic pianist!<\/h2>\n<p>I really hope you like this professional musicians portrait of an amazing pianist I photographed a while back at <a href=\"https:\/\/stjamespaddington.org.uk\/\">St James&#8217;s Church Paddington<\/a>. If you\u2019re a professional musician and need your pubicity photos updated I\u2019d love to photograph you when life returns to normal. Or if you find yourself taking up an instrument in lockdown, like the character in \u201cGroundhog Day\u201d and would like to celebrate your success with a musicians photography session I\u2019d love to hear from you too. Details on my London musicians photography can be found here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/musician-photography.html\">London Musicians Photographer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/professional-musicians-portrait-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/professional-musicians-portrait-1.jpg\" alt=\"professional musicians portrait\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/professional-musicians-portrait-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/professional-musicians-portrait-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alexakidd-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/professional-musicians-portrait-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in lockdown in London does feel very strange. 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