Eat Pray Snap

Bali is a touristy place. You experience it everywhere. Westerners on scooters, poo coffee served all over the place. Yet there is something there that is impossible to fend off.

As you drive along, there is the usual south-east Asian chaos along the road. Unfinished buildings, signs everywhere, footpaths crumbled to bits, and a great deal of yesterday's rubbish. But then there is a gap in the buildings and you get the most beautiful view you have ever seen. Terraced rice fields where distant figures bend down to tend to their tiny plants. At the end magnificent temples set against the lush tropical forest. Simply magic. At that point it is all that you possibly could imagine.

Here are some snaps.

Stockholm revisited

I have an old Soviet camera that is a small miracle of engineering. The lens rotates around to capture a 120 degree panorama. Ode to the engineers who came up with this. However, the miracle stops there. The thing lets in light through other parts than just the lens. Lots of light. It is also insanely unsharp. Add to that my kitchen sink film development and a bad scanner and we have a nice recipie for something "different".

I like to think of Stockholm as a "Golden" city. There is something with it's buildings and aura that makes it very beautiful. That makes it glow. These images, however does not really capture that. They show something else. The golden aura is missing. Yet...there is still a certain beauty to the city. Not even a bad camera can disguise it.

Shot on Kodak Tri-X, developed in Rodinal R09 for 60 minutes.