Thursday, November 26, 2009

not far off the jump

so i guess i got bored of lugging a big lens around one of the biggest cities, one which i can hardly fathom, comma, comma, errr, i have almost forgotten everything i learnt in school. this may be a problem. now that i think about it i dont mind that we learnt a whole lot of random stuff at school because it sometimes comes in handy. i couldnt possibly try think of one moment now but take my word for it. in fact i was thinking about clouds and lightning the other day and going, i think i know why there are such things...this is a result of a higher education. some people dont even know their own names. its good to know things in some ways. pink floyd ..... i got distracted. i cant believe people like me are allowed to write these random words on the internet. completely bizarre. none the less i am and need to carry on..... i found the most amazing camera for something like R200 and a little cable release. its something like a holga but shoots 35mm film instead and is made of metal and you have to focus a tiny glass lens. its pretty incredible and i think i have fallen in love. so anyway i had to shoot a test roll which i double exposed and cross processed. do it properly you know. it came out like i assumed, unpredictably surprising. (does that make any sense. it doesnt to me but its fine. ) in all this i managed to find a killer lab, if anyone needs one in BA let me know. another amazing thing happened.. walking through SanTelmo one day i bumped into a gallery and it just so happened to be a cool french dude who ended up choosing a bunch of the night stuff I've done here and in cape town to put up in his gallery. 'studio448' he's also a photographer and does super cool landscapes of the north of argentina in a place called Salta. nuts place and pics. hopefully this will be an ongoing thing so if you ever find it go check it out. so these are the 6 that came out like something. the majority where over-exposed due to the double exposure(so now i have an idea of the aperture and how fast i gotta shoot). the rest of the film ill process in cape town. got no money left.

'the city of cows'

things are getting very wild out here in the jungle...

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