Showing posts with label SriLanka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SriLanka. Show all posts
Galle Face Black and White
Remember those old rolls of film I found in a photo shop in Colpetty? I finally had them developed (thanks Rose!), and scanned in!
I shot one roll on galle face, here's the first few.
Clearly, the quality isn't phenomenal, but I'm really happy with them. They seem like pictures from ages ago, not 2010.
I shot one roll on galle face, here's the first few.
Clearly, the quality isn't phenomenal, but I'm really happy with them. They seem like pictures from ages ago, not 2010.
A year, almost.
So this is a little different to what I usually put on here. I've been recording little videos on my phone for a while now; usually little ambient clips that dont really mean much more than what you see. Maybe banal, maybe boring, definitely repetitive.
I've put a bunch of these clips together, giving attention to only the order in which they're arranged. I didnt change the sound, or change the colors at all (I actually have no idea how to do that). There's a good chance that it might not make sense or hold any meaning to anyone uninitiated to the content, so I guess I'm asking you to give it a go. I really feel the order these clips are in and I hope that the content in them could mean something to someone who doesnt know me at all but can maybe relate to whats in it.
It starts off in Sri Lanka and moves to the states. The juxtapositions are a kinda blatant and there's not a lot to interpret. Enough talk.
I've put a bunch of these clips together, giving attention to only the order in which they're arranged. I didnt change the sound, or change the colors at all (I actually have no idea how to do that). There's a good chance that it might not make sense or hold any meaning to anyone uninitiated to the content, so I guess I'm asking you to give it a go. I really feel the order these clips are in and I hope that the content in them could mean something to someone who doesnt know me at all but can maybe relate to whats in it.
It starts off in Sri Lanka and moves to the states. The juxtapositions are a kinda blatant and there's not a lot to interpret. Enough talk.
New Header
Like a friend said in the comments, I thought the old header was a bit jarring with its underlining. Instead of fixing it, I just though id make a new one.
Source Picture (from trincomalee, overlooking the ocean from Koneshwaran temple):
some photoshoppery later:
It's interesting that after switching the header to the right, I still kept the headers square or at least rectangular in shape. Dunno how it occurred to me that I could experiment with different shapes and forms and placement of text. This ones a bit safe but I like how it looks. Maybe ill do something more adventurous later on.
I think this header was partially inspired by penny shaped Daguerreotype photographs. I like how it was the style to set portraits in circular frames, I guess this is still seen as a natural fit considering how people vingette studio portraits in an ellipse around a portrait.
I've been watching this great show on BBC called genius of photography, and thats what got me into daguerreotype. I think you should check it out if you're even partially interested in photography, the production quality is fantastic.
The youtube channel contains all the episodes. I'm on episode 4 now. Episode 3 was really good, if you want to just get your feet wet.
Source Picture (from trincomalee, overlooking the ocean from Koneshwaran temple):
some photoshoppery later:
It's interesting that after switching the header to the right, I still kept the headers square or at least rectangular in shape. Dunno how it occurred to me that I could experiment with different shapes and forms and placement of text. This ones a bit safe but I like how it looks. Maybe ill do something more adventurous later on.
I think this header was partially inspired by penny shaped Daguerreotype photographs. I like how it was the style to set portraits in circular frames, I guess this is still seen as a natural fit considering how people vingette studio portraits in an ellipse around a portrait.
I've been watching this great show on BBC called genius of photography, and thats what got me into daguerreotype. I think you should check it out if you're even partially interested in photography, the production quality is fantastic.
The youtube channel contains all the episodes. I'm on episode 4 now. Episode 3 was really good, if you want to just get your feet wet.
Train ride
I took a train from Ragama to Pettah once and and had my camera with me. Pretty self explanatory.
Amputee
Amputee
For the lack of a better title
Call it random. These pictures are from the same roll, and some are from the general region of Pettah, but I like to think of them having separate themes/feeling to them.
I really like the focus in this picture, even though it's not 'correct'(the middle of the plant is not in focus, but the spiky branches closest to you are).
People roasting peanuts in a shop in Pettah somewhere
Strange roundabout monument
The state of the Millers building is a shame, but I think there are plans to refurbish it.
I really like the focus in this picture, even though it's not 'correct'(the middle of the plant is not in focus, but the spiky branches closest to you are).
People roasting peanuts in a shop in Pettah somewhere
Strange roundabout monument
The state of the Millers building is a shame, but I think there are plans to refurbish it.
New Header
It's been a while since I've had a new header, so I went ahead and made this one:
Using this source picture from the prayer tree in the Trinco
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How does it look?
Using this source picture from the prayer tree in the Trinco
.How does it look?
The details
When you live away from home for extended periods of time, the first things you start to forget are the little details: textures, the colors and how the little things are just slightly more different than anywhere else.
When you come back home after being gone for long, when you look out the the window from the plane and look down at the distant shapes of the paddy fields that grow bigger until you can start making out people and houses, it all starts flooding back.
By the time you're in a van on the way home from the airport, at Negombo street level, the sensory overload just starts overwhelming you- its like revenge for forgetting how things smell, and how personal space is scaled down relative to the country you're in, and how much out of sync you are with your surroundings.
These senses fill your jet-lagged, emotionally overworked brain and starts to fill you with worry: that things have changed and that everyone has left you behind.
And then you come home. Everything starts settling down and the familiar starts rushing back and you're rested enough to know where to file away the different sensations that are vying for your attention.
I go through the pictures I've taken during my time at home and I realize that half of them are wide aperture shots of little details. You always remember the shape of the house, nothing can make you forget that. But you start to forget the layout of the garden, the shape and the feel of the rock and how peaceful things are. I think I took these so I wouldnt forget those things.
When you come back home after being gone for long, when you look out the the window from the plane and look down at the distant shapes of the paddy fields that grow bigger until you can start making out people and houses, it all starts flooding back.
By the time you're in a van on the way home from the airport, at Negombo street level, the sensory overload just starts overwhelming you- its like revenge for forgetting how things smell, and how personal space is scaled down relative to the country you're in, and how much out of sync you are with your surroundings.
These senses fill your jet-lagged, emotionally overworked brain and starts to fill you with worry: that things have changed and that everyone has left you behind.
And then you come home. Everything starts settling down and the familiar starts rushing back and you're rested enough to know where to file away the different sensations that are vying for your attention.
I go through the pictures I've taken during my time at home and I realize that half of them are wide aperture shots of little details. You always remember the shape of the house, nothing can make you forget that. But you start to forget the layout of the garden, the shape and the feel of the rock and how peaceful things are. I think I took these so I wouldnt forget those things.
Kites
Kite season was in full swing when I was back home in August. It drives the kids nuts and I feel like someone was always trying untangle a kite stuck on a lamp post/tree/roof near where we live.
Paddy fields are naturally the best places to fly kites because none of the aforementioned structures obstruct the kite's path. So anyone looking for the smarter kids on the block should look no further than at those flying kites in paddy fields.
My logic is flawless.
The picture however, is not.
Paddy fields are naturally the best places to fly kites because none of the aforementioned structures obstruct the kite's path. So anyone looking for the smarter kids on the block should look no further than at those flying kites in paddy fields.
My logic is flawless.
The picture however, is not.
Galle Face
I had some time to kill while in Colombo once and I walked up to the galle face green and took a few pictures. I shot a roll of B&W film, but to get to that I had to finish off a roll of colour first. I haven't got the B&W developed yet, but I will post those when I get them.
These two shots are from these odd-looking coke vendors (ha), who deal (ha, again) out of giant coke bottle shaped stalls. Their stuff(on a roll now) is super expensive, and in the searing heat it is so tempting to splurge on some iced cream soda.
Hustler
Oh yeah, so it looks like my ME-1 has developed a consistent light leak. I am so pissed. It's left that on almost every picture.
These two shots are from these odd-looking coke vendors (ha), who deal (ha, again) out of giant coke bottle shaped stalls. Their stuff(on a roll now) is super expensive, and in the searing heat it is so tempting to splurge on some iced cream soda.
Hustler
Oh yeah, so it looks like my ME-1 has developed a consistent light leak. I am so pissed. It's left that on almost every picture.
Trinco
Strange bunker like thing, built on some rocks on the ocean. I bet when the tide is low this thing is less peculiar.
Koneswaram Temple
Koneswaram Temple was, and still is an incredibly fascinating place.
I love the intricacy of the design of Hindu temples, it's like layers and layers of detailed carving that is the antithesis to the extremely minimal Buddhist temple exterior. Even the relatively busy looking gothic churches have strongly defined vertical lines, while a hindu temple (I feel) is built upon the vertical stacking of horizontal elements (like plates). Does that make any sense?
And the colours! I mean where else do you get colours like this?!
I love the intricacy of the design of Hindu temples, it's like layers and layers of detailed carving that is the antithesis to the extremely minimal Buddhist temple exterior. Even the relatively busy looking gothic churches have strongly defined vertical lines, while a hindu temple (I feel) is built upon the vertical stacking of horizontal elements (like plates). Does that make any sense?
And the colours! I mean where else do you get colours like this?!
Trinco
A few shots from Trinco. It was in the mid thirty's and the sky as bright as ever, I cant believe the film didnt melt, let alone work.
Home
I got my film from Sri Lanka developed. Expect constant updating services to to resume starting now.
I miss you, home.
I miss you, home.
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