According to Tim, he’s uncovered the Chinese restaurant waiter training school, writing on Sanfermin.com he says:

I’ve often wondered how the Chinese waiters cope and survive during San Fermin, having to handle some of us lot, and after much research, I have found a video of the passing out parade for those selected for Pamplona during fiesta, after no doubt a gruelling, Ghurka style training course.

It is really nice to see the Police being the smart people in this case. Well done to MET Police (in this case).

Part I

In this episode of The Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how to select multiple images to work together as diptychs and triptychs. Learn how to select photographs with similar attributes such as color and shape, mood and lighting, line and form will help to unify two (or more) photographs, perhaps even creating new meaning through the relationship of the imagery.

Part II

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne demonstrates how to use Lightroom 3’s Develop Module to use color, tone, placement of content, and stylistic effects to give a series of images a unified look and feel. Learn how to use leading lines to tie images together as well as repeating shape, detail and balance to form a cohesive story.

A couple of weblinks with tips for making triptychs.

Today’s encierro was clean and fast. 4 wounded, and the Torrestrella toros ignore the corredores! More coverage in the Diario De Navarra.

The encierro is alot of fun, thats for sure. But an encierro with rasher sang-iches as a prize? Only the Irish can do it with that much style. I liked the guy with the boina at the start.

Find out more about the video here.

Encierro peligroso from Agustín Roig on Vimeo.

NB: If you are upset by scenes of blood, you might not want to view this.

But this is a definite possibility with the encierro. Enter at your own risk.

This video is of last years fiesta de San Fermín, 2009, Pamplona (Navarra).

sanferminencierro.com – Entrevista a Javier Solano from sanferminencierro on Vimeo.

This is an interview with encierro commentator Javier Solano where he explains, with decades of experience, his views on last years fiesta.

Someone as famous as he even has a Facebook fan page, por suspuesto

An interesting interview. Thanks to sanferminencierro.com for it.

Los Mansos, por Javier Lorente. from sanferminencierro on Vimeo.

Javier Lorente Cía, is a veterinary surgeon who worked in the veterinary services involved in the encierro and corridas for many years.

In this interview he explains what “los mansos” (the meek) are, and the different variations (cabestres, from the south of Spain for example).

Los mansos are bulls who have been castrated at an early age. As a result they are These bulls are involved in the encierro. Each day two groups of mansos lead and finish the group of toros bravos.

Their job is to provide safety (and apply a certain slowing of the group) by leading the toros bravos to the plaza, while the second groups job is to lead any bulls that might have stopped or been left behind in the bull run towards the bullring (so-called ‘sweep-up” group).