A la recherche du tramps perdu

[hirez]

Lomography.

(Contains shoddy negative cutting, poor-quality scans, persons who may recognise themselves and thus never speak to me again where that would be bad, socialist-unrealist landscapes, LC-A behaviour from the XA2, demonstrations of camera-lobbing, persons who may recognise themselves and thus never speak to me again where I would be quite relieved.)

On balance, though, I'll put the rest through DLab and hang the expense.

Comments

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

This is great stuff - somewhere, it's always 1950 in East Germany.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ta very kindly. It's odd how many of the Whitby ones came out. A couple manage to sort-of convey the noise and density of people. A couple almost work like still lives.

[reddragdiva]

Yes, those are fantastic.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

I like the Kodachrome colours. Very 1960s

[neilh.livejournal.com]

By some quirk of fate one of the smoothing caps on this lappy has died lending a stripy blue halo to everything...somehow those pictures have captured faraway destinations from my youth, the dream holidays I never had.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. Exactly so.

[hazeii.livejournal.com]

Woolacombe bay, seen from the hill above Mortehoe.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Oh, well spotted.

[kathbad]

Coo! A picture of me I really like (OK so it is not all of me, but nonetheless...)

Thank you.

(Mind if I try to icon-ise it?)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad you like it. I faffed with the original for Quite Some Time, convinced you'd hate it.

On one hand, it's objectifying someone. On the other, I think it's a strangely powerful and kinetic image.

Please, icon-furtle away

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Love the one at the vendor table where the woman with bright red hair (white corset and skirt) nonchalantly has her right bum on the table--it all works together and is quite cute (and, so is her bum, I suppose).

I really love the ones that are dream-scape type shots. Very surreal and interesting.

Do post more as you are able!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I guess it's a reaction to the majority of the Whitby photography that happens. A set of it is standard fetish/modelling - most people involved seem happy with that. Another set is flash-photographed drunk people having a red-eyed laugh - again, most people involved seem happy with that.

I've been at the photographed end of both types and it's not something I'm keen on. (I need to expand on this because it leads off in a direction that's not strictly true, and People Who Model may read this and begin to think I'm bagging on them, which would be a particularly incorrect conclusion to leap in a single bound.)

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

ARGH!

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I particularly like Testcard01.

And the Attack of the Walking Ribcage:
http://www.libeljournal.com/lomography/OddSods/images/Whitby15.jpg