Amsterdam, Netherlands

TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY

The series Travel Photography was shot with Ihagee 6x9cm camera from 1920s. The camera has a simple frame viewfinder (broken and useless), focusing by distance meter, shutter speeds of 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100 only. All photos were taken without a tripod (mostly handheld, but sometimes I used garbage bins for the support). Most pictures were taken on Scala film before it was discontinued, other - on TMax 400. The camera leaks light like hell; sometimes I do not fight it and leave image defects as part of the composition.
i love this series but this is my favorite of the group because of its simplicity and the way the light hits the bicycle chrome and the railing behind....i also love the textural quality of the background......beautiful shot..
~~marianne
 
This is a really interesting image made even more so by the inherent softness and flare of the lens particularily on this and the Petergof image. They almost look like zone plate images to me.
 

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