The reader who submitted this admitted to being one of the people in the photo. The picture was taken for a flyer for an “alternative opera-cabaret-burlesque show.” And it wasn’t Photoshopped.
December 19, 2011 | Categories: opera, perhaps not classical | Tags: awkward opera photo shoots, awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses, what is going on here? | Leave A Comment »
It’s almost like if Avril Lavigne played the harp, and had a twin, and liked backlit photos, and… never mind. Not enough eyeshadow.
November 24, 2011 | Categories: duos | Tags: calling the fashion police, contrived poses, don't smile, harpist, harpists, outdoors | 2 Comments »
Dear sir:
I regret to inform you that this is not the Harlem Globetrotters.
The judges were, however, impressed with your ability to balance random objects on your fingertip.
November 4, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, balancing act, contrived poses, french horn, horn | 1 Comment »
I didn’t know you played the horn!
Or wore skinny jeans!
October 31, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, awkward props, contrived poses, horn, jump up and get down, umbrella | 9 Comments »
“Oh, yeah?”
“I’m pretty sure.”
“Well, ready… aim… You’re fired.”
October 14, 2011 | Categories: winds | Tags: awkward poses, blowin' in the wind, contrived poses, fun and games, wind instruments | 2 Comments »
I really don’t want to know what that squatting violinist is up to.
But at least, in the end, they reach the golf cart on the right-hand side of the street.
September 28, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, concert dress out of context, contrived poses, fun and games, outdoors, string quintet | Leave A Comment »
And just look what those biceps can do.
Hangin’ tough.
September 20, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: cellist, contrived poses, muscle man | 6 Comments »
As @dasmooke said, the sunlight is most intriguingly placed.
The winning caption comes from @zerbinettasblog: “He is an angel sent from heaven to sing you an aria, then sell you a crappy used Peugeot.”
September 15, 2011 | Categories: album covers, singers | Tags: awkward opera photo shoots, awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses | Leave A Comment »
Another one in the category of “let’s carefully lay out all our instruments on the floor” while the musicians sit back. In what looks like an empty airport lounge.
September 7, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: contrived poses, lay down your arms, string quartets, take a seat | 2 Comments »
If not a feather, perhaps was it an earthquake that knocked them over? A hurricane? Tornado?
And what are we supposed to think of that leg wrap-around? Gentlemen, care to explain?
August 26, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses, string quartets, what is going on here? | 4 Comments »
We’ve had Awkward Piano Trio Day. We’ve had Blowin’ in the Wind Day. We’ve had Column-Buyin’. And more.
But none of these trios had figured out the Eternal Piano Problem: how to include the pianist’s instrument in a photo shoot without draping everyone awkwardly around the piano itself.
Fear not. There is a solution.
A tiny, toy solution.
August 23, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, awkward props, contrived poses, piano trios | 2 Comments »
He got tired of feeling like a mere prop to lovely women in red dresses.
They wouldn’t even look at him.
So he took matters into his own arms.
August 18, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses, lame backgrounds, piano trios | 1 Comment »
Also: color balance, anyone? That poor horn player looks a little jaundiced.
August 15, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: awkward photoshopping, awkward poses, contrived poses, wind quintet | 3 Comments »
Sometimes, we’re just left without words.
Two different people have sent this one in.
August 13, 2011 | Categories: album covers | Tags: awkward poses, awkward props, calling the fashion police, compromising position, contrived poses, what is going on here? | 5 Comments »
We didn’t think it would happen, but here’s a photo of a male musician lying on the floor.
Sorry for the small photo.
This introduces a whole new category, in the words of the (female) harpist who sent this in: “Male harpists who have to proclaim their masculinity by knocking their harps over.”
Here’s another.
And another.
Very manly.
August 5, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, contrived poses, harpists, serious business | 2 Comments »
What is it about lying down?
On the floor.
In bed.
Under the boardwalk.
Legs up the wall.
Oh, and if anyone see any pictures of *male* performers lying on the floor, send them in.
August 4, 2011 | Categories: soloists | Tags: awkward poses, compromising position, contrived poses, flutists, guitarists, violinists | 3 Comments »
And faces.
Actually, just hide behind your violins altogether.
Because if you can’t see us, we can’t see you… wait, that’s not how it works?
Each player subsumes his or her identity to the larger ensemble. Or just hates having photos taken. Or something.
July 21, 2011 | Categories: miscellaneous ensembles | Tags: awkward poses, concert dress out of context, contrived poses, hide-and-go-seek, outdoors | 2 Comments »
Or is that what those two guys are toasting to?
Also, I want to see a fountain spraying out of the saxophone.
Thank to @leahkardos for this photo.
July 18, 2011 | Categories: chamber ensembles | Tags: contrived poses, outdoors, overly earnest, water feature, what is going on here? | 2 Comments »
