Monthly Archives: December 2010

Desk of doom

This is a desk. It isn’t an ordinary desk though. In this room, on either side sat either the conqueror or the conquered, on one side the weight of a crushing state machinery and on the other individuals caught up in its net. This is of course an interrogation room in the Stasi Prison in...

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Not A Black Swan

This is a tricky image. I had a clear idea of what I wanted and took 20 shots trying to get it to work. I was looking down on the canal from a bridge and liked the angle straight down, liked the dark waters against the white of the swans and the snow. I think...

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Görlitzer

Ventured out in the cold yday with the camera through Görlitzer park. It was so cold even the drug dealers took the day off. The animals were still there though, and mostly looked pretty happy in the snow (apart from the donkeys) This is the goat looking slightly demented although he has great teeth. He...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja

I forgot I took these tortoise photos. Such characterful faces and expressions, and damn do they like to bite. Not many new interesting photos to show. My focus recently has been on technical aspects of photography which is less interesting externally but fascinating in different ways. On the one hand it is worse as you...

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Agra

Well we are getting to the end of the photos I took in India. I have tried to avoid mentioning or showing the taj mahal. Too iconic, too … too seen. There is a certain wonder to it, but maybe I’m too jaded or carry too much expectation but like many places you look, you...

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Red Man

I have two versions of this photo, this one with bleach bypass the other without. Bleach bypass is not particularly flattering so I apologise to this gent but I wanted to match his expression. In addition I cropped his face somewhat on ond side, this I absolutely love doing. I play around with removing as...

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