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@yungcanoeist those are quaint as hell. Were they taken with your phone? esp. like the one with the moped on it.

I've been playing around w/ focusing on geometric form but i'm kind of finding myself shooting photos w/o subjects and that's a problem I need to solve going forward, if I want to stop taking compositionally OK but boring pics.

Thinking about putting the first two into diptych form but they're alright on their own.

@zevolution
!!!! those are so beautiful!! i'm so into the compositions of 2, 3, and 4 especially. i feel you - i used to shoot primarily geometric composition (see below) but started doing portraits and otherwise incorporating people about two years ago after feeling like i wanted more a more emotive quality in my photos. still, abstractions from reality are dope and i continue to shoot them. check out the miksang approach, especially if you're into buddhist meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqGNb5MSOqA

are your shots film? i shot film again for the first time in a year recently but they look so bad -- either the film or the developer need to be replaced. i might post a couple good ones soon.

yeah, the ones from china are just from an iphone 5.

these are older, geometric film shots though.

couple of shots i finally got developed recently

i picked up a k1000 this spring and decided to shoot some things as a first experience with a camera
here are some of my favorites (smiling)
hi new england

Really liked this surrealist series of by .

interesting, to me that just looks like a random photoshop cut and paste
edit: sorry that perhaps sounds a bit high-handed and dismissive, but it really seems sort of pointless to me on both conceptual and pure form level? if it was painted it might look like one of those 70s sci fi novel covers, which could be likeable in its own way. even if he cut it up with scissors and juxtaposed it might have a certain interest. but the ubiquity and frictionlessness of photoshop take away even that

few photos taken this summer:


Capitola Beach


Classroom resource room, Fresno


Downtown Fresno


Montaña de Oro


San Luis Obispo

huh, so david quentin is actually throwing rocks in front of the camera, using very fast film. guess that gives it a sort of... lo-fi charm

what are teen thoughts on andreas gursky?

sam gets invite to the opening, bela has to queue in the rain with the other provincials for trying to be 'cool'

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/ ... rd-gallery

end of summer.











I've been taking pics all summer with the end goal to print them in a book. I'm thinking about going with Artifact Uprising, but it seems like its gonna be p expensive to make multiple copies.
Any other recommendations for photo books?

Don't really do a ton of photos, but here's a couple that I liked

Got back 7 rolls of film spanning the whole summer and back into the summer before (didn't really do much colour stuff during the last year at 6th form bc of access to a b&w darkroom). Finally got the opportunity to scan some of them so thought I'd share them B^)









long post!

it's sort of a laziness thing for me - I got bored on digital how you have to manually adjust ISO, white balance etc. in order to get the photo you want whereas with film that's not so much a consideration - the ISO is mostly dependent on film, as is the colour cast. The grain also really appeals to me, but that's mostly an added bonus, not primarily why

I got to see my friend this weekend and I was able to get some cool shots in. As always I appreciate criticism, I don't often shoot portraits.

@oaked using a VSCO Lightroom preset I modified, a scan of Kodak Portrait 160. Made it really flat

Also thanks for opinions but I'm not gonna do a zine

My favourite shots from a recent Barcelona trip










*edit* fixed the colours and added one i missed. originals in the spoiler

Some film from Nov-Dec

first roll on my new mamiya rb67

random things

went shooting in london with @sam

trying to transfer into photography, n working on my portfolio. here's some stuff I'm considering





shot a lot more b&w in the past few months than I had previously, I like it a lot

recently got a Canon 6D, enjoying the full frame after 6 years of crop sensor

anyone go to the gursky? i thought it was ok. tillmans too, meh (i quite liked the granularity of the lobster). i still don't really see the point of photography-as-art 99% of the time tbh.

i think so much comes down to whether you buy into the whole photography schtick and i'm (perhaps too?) resistant. someone like alec soth's work- based on the little i know- appears to rely on easy aestheticism, cliched ideas of kerouac-ian americana, dumb sense of 'authentic' etc. to say nothing of the whole queasy subject-object relation, economic inequality/exploitation thing. that seems more or less the case for most of those old magnum guys tho?

went with friends to SF yesterday

I went to the Gursky too and also found it ok. I liked his earlier stuff the most as it actually did feel quite ambiguous and I guess mysterious and the later stuff not so much. Some of the later stuff felt a little bit gimmicky to me, I guess it's interesting how photomanipulation just creates images that look different from photography even if its subtle. When I think of photomanips I think of adverts or gimmicky manips where there's a woman, but her hair is made of leaves now. And actually I feel like a lot of the ways Gursky manipped his photos was also pretty gimmicky, even stuff like the reconstruction of the tokyo cityscape where some buildings are blurred and others are focused felt gimmicky. I guess some of the images felt like they had a complex and interesting thing going on and some really really didn't ().

pretty much all photography is gimmick/schtick tbh, its only meaningful/ culturally relevant form at this point is the teen selfie.