Airports

Folks, I have been on several planes, sat in a few departure lounges and don't know if it's night or day anymore. Jetlag is the professional term for the frequent traveller, but I don't care.

I am stuck at Edmonton airport, courtesy of a massive storm blowing just outside my window. Needless to say, my next plane hasn't arrived yet, or sits on the tarmac, or something. Anyway, thought I'd use my time productively and share this spectacular cloud picture with y'all.

The early bird catches the worm

Some days you have to get up extremely early to make your day worthwhile. In this case, it involved a 3 a.m. start to drive down to Hampshire. Subject of today's assignment: the River Itchen, a classic and rather beautiful chalk stream running from the South Downs to Southampton. I had done my research, geotagged various locations and flew around it on Google Earth before setting off. What could possibly go wrong?

The weather was gracious with me, and the mild, misty morning light worked very well for portraying one of England's beauty spots. See the collection here:

Occupying a Chimney

Life can be exciting sometimes. My latest assignment was to document the occupation by Greenpeace activists of the smoke stack of the Enel-owned power plant in Brindisi, southern Italy. We spent three days camping on the top, and my job included abseiling off the 200-metre structure to photograph the climbers painting a slogan on its side. Beats going to the office, I can tell you...

There are plenty of things which would be worth saying about those rather intense three days which just finished yesterday, but I prefer to keep those words for anecdotes to be shared in person at a later date. However, one thing surprised all of us upon being arrested by the Italian authorities. Their head of Police congratulated us for the action and gave us a bottle of Grappa as a souvenir ;-)

The Charles Parsons

We were waiting for several weeks before the coal freighter Charles Parsons appeared in our sights. Greenpeace had decided to up the ante and protest against fresh coal being delivered to the infamous power station Kingsnorth where various protests had taken place in the past.

Covering this event involved not only a lot of patience, but also strength and persistence as we spent nearly 30 hours in an inflatable from beginning to end. Encountering rough waves, cold, sleep deprivation and also police keen to arrest us, this job was out of the ordinary. Unfortunately, the boys in blue did confiscate a sizeable amount of the photos I produced that night, and here are some of those they didn't get their lawful hands on. I hope this gives you an idea...

Charles Parsons - Images by Jiri Rezac

Those interview jobs

Sometimes they all come at once: interview portraits, for different clients, with different briefs, in (naturally) different locations. The selected pictures are not necessarily the first choice of my editors, but they are mine. So here they are. All these (and many more) were taken in the space of several days in early June, apologies for late posting. Life has been rather hectic at Rezac towers.

First, we have Michel Parmigiani, president of Parmigiani Watches, Geneva, Switzerland photographed during an interview in a London black cab.

Then we have Reza Aslan, a scholar on Islamic religion and author, photographed during a rather brief intermezzo at Russel Square before he was due to give a speech.

And lastly, the eminent historian Timothy Garton-Ash, photographed for a lead story on European politics following the UK's EU election results.