I'm not kissing the butt here, but I need to say this is maybe the best picture in Keef's modern day "Happy" looks. I'm talking about the picture on IORR now, just in case I didn't communicate this well.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2024-08-04 17:03 by bv.

nice picture indeed

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Agree. A great shot by bv on the IORR home page.



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I'm not kissing the butt here, but I need to say this is maybe the best picture in Keef's modern day "Happy" looks. I'm talking about the picture on IORR now, just in case I didn't communicate this well.

............I am with you 110%.............this should go down as an iconic picture of the later years of the Stones!!!!

Tis. Just a great shot.

Yeah, I think you're right. Bjørnulf Vik, deserves congratulations and recognition for this photo... and all the others... Thank you.

I got my new camera SONY RX100 VII before this tour. The old one was purchased at a Sao Paolo market in Brazil 2016. The old one is still working, but pretty worn out physically, due to being in my pocket all the shows and tours since I got it 8 years ago.

Good friends helped me to do the manual settings in Houston. For that show the pictures were too bright, especially Keith, so I changed from ISO-auto to ISO-800. After that it was just a matter of waiting for the right moment, then click the button. I spend very litte time with the camera. It is set to auto-shoot like 10 or so pictures per second, so if I push the button 5-10 times per song, for 1-2 seconds, I have roughly 3,000 pictures per show. There is no way I can check every one, after every show there is another snow, or the long way home. I hate to have that many pictures, but the upside is that 1-3 out of 20 in a series is just perfect.

I went to bed at 4am after the Ridgedale show, just having downloading the 2,700 pictures from the show to my PC. There was a short hour until boarding in Springfield, around 10am the day after the show, and I just opened the PC, added the setlist, and looked quickly for 5-6 pictures with high quality, to represent the show, knowing it might take the long 24h travel back home, and another 1-2 days, until I was able to do any more updates. I had some 20 minutes to find 5-6 pictures, scale them, crop, and publish.

It was just two clicks each of 2 seconds, with 21+21 pictures during "Sympathy For The Devil". The first 21 were too dark, but the next 21 had great lights behind Keith. Also, he was facing forward first, then he turned within a second to facing Pit B. The four pictures below are just 4 random, but in the right time sequence, out of the 42 pictures I found by luck during my quick work under slight pressure at Springfield MO airport Monday morning July 22.

I did not have internet on any of my flights back home via Altanta and Copenhagen to Oslo, but I had the IORR home page and the Ridgedale pages in cache on my mobile phone. I loved that picture so much, not because I took it, but because it is such a great documentation of Keith live. I looked at it again and again, during the boring long way home. Keith do spend a lot of time in the back with Steve Jordan, and he is working hard, no time for lots of smiles, but that moment in the picture was "so much Keith" at his best. I just love it, and it makes me want to go on another tour.









Bjornulf



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Thanks for the new photos and comments



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2024-08-04 17:30 by StoneZP.

Yes it’s one of my favorite photos of Keith, even from the early days, in my top ten

Thank you for the update and extra pics!

Those pics, more than anything else, scream ‘We’re not going anywhere!’

Brilliant, Bjornulf. See you all next time.

Amazing how vital and energized Keith looks in all those pictures. Represents his general state during this tour (and one before). Compare them to any picture of 2017, big difference.

For someone that many people wrote off as a top ten person on those morbid lists. Keith honestly looks amazing in health and spirit!

BV,

It's a good job photographers don't have to buy film these days.
Kodak shares would have doubled in value... but you wouldn't be able to afford the flights