Day 14 of 365 - Useless stuff - in use
"There is something about old and useless stuff that I find intriguing. I can, for example, go to a flea market and see all the useless junk, but I'm still somehow interested enough to check them out and explore these piles of stuff that are actually something what the seller would throw away if he weren't trying to sell it there. In other words garbage. You can also found odd stuff in forests, like couches and cars – at least in here, but probably there too. Sometimes they are so deep in the forest, it makes you wonder how people have managed to get them there. I guess the interest in old and useless stuff is in some way connected to 'user experience': you find them in accident and they feel like treasures or something. One could also use economics to explain that there is, unlike in super market, a natural scarcity of authentic junk, because every piece of scrap you found is in its own way a unique relic of life shaped by the time. So, it's important to keep eye on them."
Day 15 of 365 - Lonely stages
"When it comes to composition, I've found myself favoring symmetries and perpendicular angles. I don't know where it comes from, but it seems to be coded into my photographic eye. One could say that it's rigid way of organize objects and things in a picture, but I find it resembling classic harmony or theater stage where everything has meaningful place – everything in order and nothing arbitrary. It's a point of view where viewer is somehow estranged from it and watches it objectively while things are presented to him/her."
Day 16 of 365 - Hidden portrait (by Sony Alpha Friend Afzal Khan)
"I am Afzal Khan. By my profession I am a designer, particularly a graphics designer. I have my own firm Hyphen advertising in Kathmandu, where I work as a Creative director. We take care of advertising designs like print ads and commercials for television. However, in country like Nepal there is not much scope for creative work. Especially the kind of photography I do contains no commercial value. So whatever I'm doing with photography is just for myself. It's my big passion and gives me satisfaction. I bought my own camera about three years ago and have been taking photographs ever since. Sony cameras are my favorite because of easy technology and rich colors they produce."
Kalainan; I like projects like these, they force you to be disciplened and secure. Very nice results!
Taran; wonderfull exotic explorations!
mcbroomf; I like industrial photography, good work!
Nex Barker; nice portraits!
Sebboh; interesting views as always.
Jim Schlemel; Always well thought and restraint! Great portrait!
And many others!
I was working on some older NEX files. We have no shortage of bycyclettes here in Amsterdam
Day 17 of 365 - Transference
"Aura has a sleeping cat, which we bought for her before she was born. We wanted it to be 'there for her from the beginning', so that she would later have something 'which has always been there'. While it is very dear to her now, it's has also been interesting to follow how her relationship to cat has developed during this time. While cat didn't receive much attention at the beginning, it seems that it now develops new skills on a daily basis. At first it just sat there with us once in awhile. Then we had to start changing diapers to it. Now it seems that the cat does all sort of things. It reads books, uses computer (to look pictures of other cats!) and if it wants it can fly in the sky."
most pictures of the night was taken with D600, not only because of superior handling and IQ of full frame DLSR, using still a little bit easier to frame and focus (with lens having focus scale).
Day 18 of 365 - Working with a film
"I have always been interested in visual things and consider myself a visually orientated person. As a kid I draw a lot and later on my path led me into graphics design, which I learned without formal education (I'm sure that's actually a pretty common in these days, but I highly respect those who have had some sort of formal education to it, because they learn their craft in a broader cultural and societal perspectives). I’ve played with painting, 3D-modelling and so on. Naturally one would think that I would have gone into photography pretty early. I was, but there were more than one false start before I got seriously started with it which was pretty late. Most of my false starts were related to using real film and analog cameras, but there were other reasons too."
