When the slow photographic season gives its fruits

This is the one I saw coming...and I like it. I think I could end this project gracefully.

And I just realised that I didn't put up the version that I (think) I like most. So, this is the other one

Photographic nonsense

It is said that Mark Twain met a man better dressed and paid than him, who made a living lecturing about him. Ironic, isn't it?

Cross my heart and kiss my elbow

I'm writing right now with a hint of salt in my hair, relaxed and mostly sane. The days that are coming are crucial. Tomorrow and, even more, the day after tomorrow. Please, don't let me be ashamed of my hometown...

Y u no shoot?

Regardless of the stupid (inspired by 9gag) title, this is a question that I've been asking myself a lot lately. You who have watched my blog for some time now have probably noticed that you haven't seen any real photo lately. I'm not hiding them. It's just that those last months have been long. I've recently finished the film I started just after the holidays and I have yet to develop it. I am in the middle of my beloved "roommates" project and the streets are full of delightful atrocities. My visual life isn't boring at all. So, the question should have a more complicated answer. I thought about bying a hand strap but that's no solution. The problem isn't of a material order, obviously.
If I have to answer it though, it would probably be this.
a) lately, I've become kind of a gear-freak. Not about my own gear, but since I've been seriously thinking of upgrading my digital camera, I've been spending gazillion hours gear-watching. And that leaves no time for serious photography. Not time exactly. It's more about the mood. The solution to this would be to buy the damn thing and go on with my life.
b) I'm in a peculiar kind of mood. I don't value anything that comes out of my own hands much. So, if you think that, even if you shoot, your photos are going to be crap, you aren't in the mood to shoot. Which brigs us to
c) I haven't been consistently shooting for quite some time now. Believe it or not, shooting and seing the results consistently helps you getting better without lazying out. It will be hard to get into this rythm with the upcoming exams. But I'll definitely get myself one or two summer projects.

So, I have to develop this damn film. I know there are one or two good photos in it. Because, even though I've had all this negative background, I've also learnt something in the meantime. In this film, there are some good photos I've seen coming...

The silver screen

My relationship with cinema has always been ambiguous. I mean, I love watching movies, but I prefer them in the comfort of my couch/bed/tv/laptop. I rarely go to cinemas and when I do, I'm crying for the money I spend for the ticket (cause they're not cheap). But there is an exception. Summer cinemas. The ones outdoors, where you can gaze the stars and light a smoke. And for the last weeks I'm doing this a lot, since the University's cinema team is showing movies outdoors every weekend. We sit on the biggest stairs in town (it's a challenge to arrive to the point where the screen is) and watch the selection the team has made for us. It's been nice until now. And here's a song from one of my favorite movies that I watched there recently.

Smoothly

I'm posting one of my last pictures with my digital camera (while it's mine, anyway). It's my first table lamp. A simple design that I like really much but would like to improve. Some things come to my house and others leave it. It's all about the summer...

Foul Mood

The weather's been shitty for the last 4 days. I am moving slowly with both current photographic projects (slow as a snail, actually). Sun, where are you? How could we ever have the annual party in Kalogria without you?

Nonsense post again. I hope the next one will have a photo in it.

High heels

She was wearing a polka dot dress. a grey one. and plastic high heels. She was the heroine of a movie. It was raining. She was kissing with the man she loved and everything seemed to move around them

And then it was gone. Just like any other moment. The special ones don't get special privileges

Great

...the parrot from across the street has learned the word "malaka"

Summer looks like...

laying around (convincing yourself that you have nothing to do)
sitting on bar stools barefoot
wearing that oh-so-shiny lipstick
drinking cold and imaginative sips
seing the stars while laying on rocks
noticing how your cousin's feet look like food under the sea
reading the same litterature you've read since you were 8
dreaming about tommorow's exit and leaving the bigger dreams for when the weather worsens
feeling beautiful and overweening

I might continue this list sometime