a little progress

today i dropped of 8 rolls of different color films(that I shot over the last 4 months) to develop(I will scan them one day) and about 200 photos to print(Prague travel album).I have somehting like 10 unscanned developed BW and about 5-6 undeveoped ones.I have 4-5 120 bw films waiting to be scanned by one guy and 4 x35 colored ones by another but they don’t have much time so it take forever.

I got the new computer and it works quietly and with no fuss.

I am not in a very photographic mood.I need to select 20-40 color pics to enlarge to 20×30 for my big pics album.

a little progress


today i dropped of 8 rolls of different color film(that I shot over the last 4 months) to develop(I will scan them one day) and about 200 photos to print(Prague travel album).I have somehting like 10 unscanned developed BW and about 5-6 undeveoped ones.I have 4-5 120 bw films waiting to be scanned by one guy and 4 x35 colored ones by another but they don’t have much time so it take forever.

I got the new computer and it works quietly and with no fuss.

I am not in a very photographic mood.I need to select 20-40 color pics to enlarge to 20×30 for my big pics album.

Sunny Mood

I feel mellow and pleasant(in a pink floyd – us and them kind of way).

Tonight is the last night shift of the cycle,

I ordered a new computer which should be ready on Sunday,

I will get some photogear in the mail soon:

  • on a loan – a couple of nikon bodies-fg and f-301, winder and flash for the fg – I wanted a second nikon body for a looong time now.

  • I ordered a set of kodak polycontrasr filters for my enlarger from David Murphy on RFF

  • Got some freebies- 2 sealed packs of 25 20×25 sheets of agfa multicontrast paper, a jobo tank + 2 adjustable reels with a cap but no cork – it’s is light tight but not watertight – I will use tinfoil and a rubberband or something- should be intresting to try something that isn’t paterson of which I have two.

NIkon fm2n;50/1.4 at 1.4 – 1/30 or 1/60 – color print film – a tungsten lamp from above.

Queer Winter

This one strange winter(in Israeli terms) sometimes the daya are hot(20-25 degrees celsius) and sometimes cold(around 7-8). The nights go from cool to cold(10-3).

Thanks God for tea.

Two Normandy cider cups(used mostly for tea)

White napkin,table lamp,praktica mtl3 with 50/1.8 (I think) and color print film

Some things just don’ amount to a hill of beans in this world

fm2n,50/1.4 AI at minimal distance, fuji proplus II 100 iso(i guess),openish(f=1.4 to 4),table lamp lying on it’s side ,black cardboard, beans, rough salt.


A couple of people told me the picture reminds them of drugs – as in food is addictive – but I don’t think it’s the issue.Just a study in still life.
I have given a guy I know several 120 films from the yashicamat to scan – so I’ll post them one day.
I am buying a new computer in a day or two.

Things that calm me down

My “Hemingway” tree. It is of african origins.
praktica mtl2+50/1.8pentacon auto.cheap color 100 or 200,horrible minilab scan
Sky from Demian Fitzig’s appartment
canonet 17 QL GIII – fuji press 800 I think

Prague Vista from one of the churches.I don’t remember which(st. Nicolas?st. Vitus?).Nikon fm2n,sigma 28/1.8,fuji x-tra 400

Myths,and the Miracle of Life

These are old(1.5-2 years?).They were taken with a pentax k1000+50/2A smc in Lachish – southern Israel.The film was konica vx 200 or kodak gold 200. This wild plum tree is at least a hundred years old, and was rumored by the bedouins to be haunted by devils(to keep children coming back fast from the nearby well with the water). I think it is magical. The myth made the haunting real.So,yes Virginia,there is a Santa Claus.


The border is an unpleasant side effect of a bad scan.I decided to keep them.

I watched Life is a Miracle – great movie – good music,nice composition and acting,great use of animals – I recommend it highly!

I discovered that some of my films(including the Prague unscanned slides and scanned BW) are nowhere to be found. To make a long tory short – the guy that I used had a heart surgery so he closed shop – he transferred all his bussiness to another shop – and the owner of this one can’t find them.Bummer.

On Lomography and Camera-phones

I hate lomography.I think selling a holga for anything more then 10$ is a sin you go to hell for(I’ve seen unmodified holgas for 80-90 Euro in Barcelona museum shops a year ago). Zenits for over 100$ are as unnatural as not serving alcohol in strip bars(and some other things you see around there).

Saying all that I think it has many positive sides: It promotes film photography, It promotes Krasnogorsk making Horizonts and a couple of other things and it keeps polaroid in the picture.

Enter the camera phone. My Sony Ericsson 750(I think) has an autofocus 2 Megapixel camera(whatever that means) and it lets me shoot polaroidholga like images and I take it everywhere I go(while a camera is with me 80% of the time and is usually loaded with BW film in the 100-400 range).

Here’s an example:

Lola the CatNot enlargable but is soft,with corner focus loss and dreamy(as well as fuzzy and cute). P.S.
I watched “stanger than fiction” and liked it.MERRY CHRISTMASS EVERYONE!!!

El Commendante

Aprendimos a quererte
desde la histórica altura
donde el sol de tu bravura
le puso un cerco a la muerte.
Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.
Tu mano gloriosa y fuerte
sobre la historia dispara
cuando todo Santa Clara
se despierta para verte.
Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.
Vienes quemando la brisa
con soles de primavera
para plantar la bandera
con la luz de tu sonrisa.
Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.
Tu amor revolucionario
te conduce a nueva empresa
donde esperan la firmeza
de tu brazo libertario.
Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.
Seguiremos adelante
como junto a ti seguimos
y con Fidel te decimos:
hasta siempre Comandante.
Aquí se queda la clara,
la entrañable transparencia,
de tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara.

(Carlos Puebla, 1965)

canonet 17 GL QIII,fuji (press?)800 – wide open and slow shutter speed – a year ago or so
A flyer stuck in the bushes near the university(BGU) in Beer Sheva, Israel – hardly political – more likely to promote a night club.
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