Some shots I love just for their textures – I think in an urban context they say much more then anything else.
Layer Cake
Metal,Plaster and paint
Nikon fm2n 50/1.4 tmax 100 in tetenal.
Month: March 2007
Graffiti
I love graffiti(and signs and stickers). It can be clever or very stupid and sometimes funny.
Mario Brothers Nostalgie – nikon fm2n, sigma 28/1.8 II, night, Tmax 100 or 400.
Neat Hip-Hopish Graffiti – nikon fm2n, sigma 28/1.8 II, night , tripod,Tmax 100 or 400.I don’t remember the equipment used
Love wall(three couples names)
Cats
Our Cat,Naftali, Asleep (nikon fm2n+75-150/3.5 e series)
Tal and her cat Lola(zorki + j8)
Street cat(yashica lynx 14e)
Flora
Todays post is plant related
Roses die fast in the kitchen
Fresh buds in the middle of the city
Tied together.
All pictures with start and helios 44 on tmax (100?) in tetenal. Listened to “No more shall we part” by Nick Cave and “returning wheel” by minimal compact.Great albums.
Urban (Beer Sheva)
This is the old part of the city I live in(which has high unemployment etc). The old part was built by turks(and an Austrian? engeneer).
Beer Sheva aint no Sao Paolo (lower crime,less hot women,no beach)but it sucks nevertheless.
The sticker are of a security company.Feel secure?
Old Synagogue.I don’t know if it works.
For sale – lookin’ for real ‘state?
Start,helios 44,Tmax 100(?)in tetenal.
Just came back from Eilat. Shot half a roll.Relaxed and gained a couple of pounds. Spent quality time with Anna.
Some Urban Shots
Start,Helios 44 Tmax 100
Burried
Yashica lynx 14ะต plus-x in tetenal(great film to scan)
The Wall Bleeds
Pentax K1000,cosinon 35/2.8 via adapter,deep orange filter.
Flag on the fence of construction site
I am going to Eilat tommorrow(with nikon?).
Got 10 rolls of 120 across. Nice film – a little contrasty in tetenal.
Worries, Troubles and a tiny black bird.
The canon was shipped 7 days ago – It should be here any day – I hope it didn’t get lost in the mail or customs ate it or something(I was to cheap to pay insurance – canadian post is pricy).
I tried scanning some color film and couldn’t get the colors right.Argh. I get good BW and the ocasional good color but sometimes getting bearable colors is a struggle.
Now to the small bird(who said that it got something stuck to it’s butt):
Shot near the golden gate bridge.Nikon fm2n + 75-150/3.5 E series. Fuji X-tra.HP 4990 Scanner.
Nice People are everywhere.
A gentleman from RFF sent me a 50/1.8 Canon for shipping charges only.Very nice of him.
A trio of found objects
First pictures from San Francisco.
All were taken with nikon fm2n and 50/1.4 AI
On Fuji X-Tra 400 or Kodak proplus II 100
New Jerusalem photos-Holy sepulchre
I got bored with the San Francisco photos I was working on so I decided to scan some of the color stuff (that I accumulated over the last 5-6 months).
The shots were taken on Fuji Proplus II iso 100 photos underexposed by 3-4 stops at least! I used photoshop and neat image(on one of them) to get rid of some noise. All were taken with the nikon fm2n with 50/1.4 or 28/1.8(leats likely). The guard of the orthodox patriarch. This chrisitan Arab Gentleman is a living anachronism. In the days of the Othoman Empire important people were assigned armed(richly garbed) guards to walk in front of them and announce their coming by hitting the ground with their staves. With time , the Turks outlawed civilian arms and only the staves remained.
The rich garb became a dark suit and a fez hat.
A coptic monk lighting candle on the Edicule(the tomb of Christ). Copts are generally looked down at by the rest of the christian world. Since they ran out of money (at some historic point) they got the smallest bit of the church which, by a stroke of poetic justicedevine Genius is the head resting place of the edicule.
