Another previous entrant redone. Comment, hate, love, do whatever you want.
Author: nataliar77
Blog Classic: Washington D.C. 2001
No news kids. Seriously slow news week. I went nowhere, don’t have any good pictures to reveal this week. Most people that would mean a break in their posting, but whatever, who said I’m most people. Anyway, this week, you my fans, get a treat:
OK, yeah, those of you who have voted on http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/index.php?offset=1&search=natalia%20radziejewska have seen this photo, but most of you don’t know the story behind it. It isn’t a crazy one, more like one I know will amuse and amaze the photo nerds out there who are my “fan(s).”
This is taken with color infrared film, the diva of the film world. In terms of movie stars, its the Joan Crawford of film mediums. You can only load it in total darkness, or else it gets fogged and only works when shooting in bright light with various filters attached to the camera. It also costs $20 for a roll. Did I mention that the light meter of your average manual SLR gets totally messed up when you bring filters into the game? I got to walk around the day I took these pictures with a light meter around my neck, in addition to the Canon AE-1. Joy.
Also, these pictures are of the annual blooming of the Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC. It happens for about 2 weeks a year and is quite stunning. At the time I took these, I was playing around a lot with infrared. Sure, it is expensive and a pain in ass, but the results, they, well, speak for themselves:
There was no editing here. This is exactly how the photos came out of my camera. Photography at its very best, in my humble opinion.
I am not an impressionist
Yes, its the Statue of Liberty. It looks like someone’s lost memory. The more I look at this photo, the more I love it.
I hate it when….
A photographer uses a megabucks camera to take a picture that looks like it was taken with a $15 Polaroid. Here’s my photos that look like that. What? I said I hated it. I didn’t say I didn’t do it:
I took this at an art fair in Boston. This little figurine was tucked off to the side. To take the photo, I had to block everyone’s way. The sacrifices I make for my art, I’ll tell you.
Glorious Gastronomical Gluttony
Look at this thing, just silently sitting there, waiting to be eaten:
This is a sticky bun from Flour Bakery, from Boston’s South End. It was amazing. Transcendent. 10+. Out of this world. The bun was sticky, but the glaze wasn’t too sweet. You could actually taste the egg in the dough and that made it better. It was very light and very, very good.
I also love meringues, a lot, so I had to try one:
I am really picky about my meringues. They are one of my favorite foods, and this one was OK. It was a little too crumbly and not sweet enough.
And I hope my audience notices that the half eaten food has disappeared from here, per the request of a small, but important part of my viewing audience. You win. No more half eaten food.
Man I want a sticky bun now.
A redux
This is an old shot I took of Stockholm during the undarkness part of the year. I redid it for another purpose (vote vote vote http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/index.php?offset=2&search=natalia%20radziejewska) and decided to repost it. I hope you like it.
Blog Classics: Washington DC, Fall 2001
Of all of the photos I have taken, this is one of my top favorites. It was a taken with a Canon AE-1 on slide film that was pushed two stops, hence the slight grain on it. It is a statue in my old neighborhood in Washington. The most interesting aspect about this photo is that this is a “one-shot.” I put the camera up, snapped the photo and that was it. No second views or takes. That was it. Also, no altering or anything. That’s how it looked when it wence done came from the camera, just as God intended, or in this case, Joseph Niepce intended.
I am kind of samey, but if you are a fan, you will put up with it
Still photographing the flowers, ad nauseum. I know, but this is my habit. Also, well, more houses, Walker Evans, I mean my style:
Blog Classics: Washington DC, Winter 2003
If one, why not two? What do I mean? Why not post two oldies, but goodies from the vault? I took like one with my Sigma SA-7, with a 28-80 lens. This was some slow film, probably 100. It was a lovely snowy day out, freezing cold of course, but I had to go out and shoot. What else is new. Behold:
Of course, I had to update it. This photo above, what you see if what you get. This one below, well, I tweaked, OK? Guilty as charged:
Blog Classics: Denmark Summer 2003
So, I am instituting a new feature to go along with the ugly art, half eaten food and obscure references that appear regularly on this blog. I am going to occasionally open the vault and take out a photo I took with this ancient technology known as film. These are my beauties, my favorite photos, the ones that make me the happiest. This first one is a swimming hole in Copenhagen harbor on a warm, sunny day.
Here goes:
This was a beautiful day and that picture just reminds me of it. I was going through my sepia phase, so it is shot in honest to goodness sepia film and developed sepia. Recently I decided to change it up a little:
Classic or version 2.0? Its up to you, my fans, to decide.
