Seeking peace and quiet

… in the forest. And then all these joggers stream by. Should have chosen wilderness instead of an urban jogging trail to seek solitude.

The Hotel Entrance

Door to a hotel in Venice, where else? It was not for show, taxi boats came and went with hotel guests all the time.

Wordless Wednesday

 

The film got stuck

… resulting in chaos, but I like it anyway.

Wordless Wednesday

Pax Vobiscum

Still life

Last week-end I attended a wet plate collodion workshop in Slovenia and it was such great fun! It was run by Topshit Photography – and it was Topshit for sure. Wet plate photography is a far cry from ‘spray and pray’ digital photography. The result is also a far cry from digital images. It’s really magic to see the image appear on this large 10 by 12 inch glass plate. Still life framed by a window, simple and very different from digital imagery. Is it better than digital? Hardly, if you look for technical perfection. However, to me it is pretty pleasing.

Derelict dwelling’s door

The house has been abandoned for years and is rapidly falling to pieces. Such a pity, it was probably quite nice once upon a time. The area has been going downhill for decades, but houses have generally been cared for as summer houses. Not this one though, the owner lives too far away to have any interest in it and it’s really passed the point when someone would like to buy. It is in a remote area – in spite of having been empty for years there are no signs of break-ins.

Hi Norm – it’s a contribution to your Thursday Doors

Reality and a rendition of reality

But then, is not perception of reality merely a rendition rather than absolute?  In that sense, art and reality is not opposites but just different aspects of the same thing.

Thursday door

Just another workshop door in a yesteryear house in the countryside. This building has aged with grace, something which the run of the mill modern workshop will not do. In my opinion. My contribution to Norm’s Thursday Doors.