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[nikos79]

NYC streets.

Shot with the Contax G2 & the 28mm lens on Adox HR-50 & Rollei Superpan 200. I like contrast.

You can have a look at all the images here. I selected ~40 frames from a total of 9 rolls shot through 9 days.

I like a lot the last photo

 

[koraks]

Oh, that's really nice @nikos79 , I love that. Very well done indeed!

 

[nikos79]

Oh, that's really nice @nikos79 , I love that. Very well done indeed!

Thank you! Appreciate it!

 

[frost242]

Rosalie playing

• frost242
• Nov 13, 2025

Not really sure it's street photo, as it's my daughter playing in Lyon/France. Taken with my trusty Rolleiflex 2.8D on Kodak Tri-X.

 

[Eric Klingberg]

Rosalie playing

• frost242
• Nov 13, 2025

Not really sure it's street photo, as it's my daughter playing in Lyon/France. Taken with my trusty Rolleiflex 2.8D on Kodak Tri-X.

Yes it is! It was taken in an urban setting and it's a candid moment. It doesn't have to be stranger to be street photography. Awesome frame, I find quality, artistic candids of family to be pretty uncommon.

 

[frost242]

Yes it is! It was taken in an urban setting and it's a candid moment. It doesn't have to be stranger to be street photography. Awesome frame, I find quality, artistic candids of family to be pretty uncommon.

Thank you for your kind comment, it's much appreciated. I don't have much free time, so my family is my main subject. I try to make shots that I like with them. Thanks a lot, again.

 

[nikos79]

Nice photo. No one knows the truth of the photo, it can be your family, an unknown child playing on the street, or a refugee child begging for money, who cares. By giving more information to the context of the photography you only weaken it.
This photo is very good because it has a nice formalistic environment and an abstract subject and it says nothing at all. No titles, nothing about the poor child falling, no slogan or message. It "speaks" only with photographic terms to whom they can appreciate the photographic language which in this photo is used solidly.
Disclaimer: My opinion (as always )

 

[thicktheo]

Japan stills.

Shot with the Leica M7 (Summicron 35mm/2, Voigtlander 28mm/2.8) and the Contax G2 (Carl Zeiss 21mm/2.8) on Kentmere 400.

You can have a look at all the images here. I selected 44 frames from a total of 9 rolls shot through 10 days.

 

[nikos79]

Japan stills.

Shot with the Leica M7 (Summicron 35mm/2, Voigtlander 28mm/2.8) and the Contax G2 (Carl Zeiss 21mm/2.8) on Kentmere 400.

You can have a look at all the images here. I selected 44 frames from a total of 9 rolls shot through 10 days.

Hey are you Greek?

 

[thicktheo]

Hey are you Greek?

Yeap. Currently in Athens, the capital of Greece.

 

[nikos79]

Yeap. Currently in Athens, the capital of Greece.

Me too greetings!

 

[thicktheo]

Me too greetings!

Greetings indeed!

 

[nikos79]

Greetings indeed!

Nice photos too!
I am also into photography but mostly digital.
I am a student of Plato Rivellis, you know him?

 

[CMoore]

Japan stills.

Shot with the Leica M7 (Summicron 35mm/2, Voigtlander 28mm/2.8) and the Contax G2 (Carl Zeiss 21mm/2.8) on Kentmere 400.

You can have a look at all the images here. I selected 44 frames from a total of 9 rolls shot through 10 days.

I guess i failed to hit "Post Reply"

That first pic...... a deer.?
If that is a statue, real deer are in trouble

 

[koraks]

That first pic...... a deer.?

I guess that would be in Nara. https://fstoppers.com/animal/theres-japanese-city-where-deer-roam-streets-freely-359261
The deer on the city streets are a thing there.

 

[Elmarc]

Scan of darkroom print.

 

[thicktheo]

Nice photos too!
I am also into photography but mostly digital.
I am a student of Plato Rivellis, you know him?

I know of Plato Rivellis, a photographic figurehead in Greece since the '80s. Not really a fan of his photographic and teaching style, but he did wonders back then, in a time when getting properly exposed to good photography was extremely difficult. I think he got a bit left behind after the turn of the century, kinda languishing in the enterprise he created and the fame he acquired. Just my 2 cents, no disrespect meant.

I guess i failed to hit "Post Reply"

That first pic...... a deer.?
If that is a statue, real deer are in trouble

I guess that would be in Nara. https://fstoppers.com/animal/theres-japanese-city-where-deer-roam-streets-freely-359261
The deer on the city streets are a thing there.

Yes, this is Nara, near Osaka. Full of deer everywhere, asking for and getting fed with crackers from humans (99% tourists, obviously).

 

[nikos79]

I know of Plato Rivellis, a photographic figurehead in Greece since the '80s. Not really a fan of his photographic and teaching style, but he did wonders back then, in a time when getting properly exposed to good photography was extremely difficult. I think he got a bit left behind after the turn of the century, kinda languishing in the enterprise he created and the fame he acquired. Just my 2 cents, no disrespect meant.

I’ve been a student of his for the past two years, and he’s been a tremendous influence on my work. While his approach may not resonate with everyone, I think that’s true of most strong teaching positions ( like Karolos Koun in Greece or Sid Grossman in US).

Regarding the idea that he’s been left behind, to his credit he has recently been questioning many of his earlier views and engaging with new ideas and artists.

 

[CMoore]

I guess that would be in Nara. https://fstoppers.com/animal/theres-japanese-city-where-deer-roam-streets-freely-359261
The deer on the city streets are a thing there.

I know of Plato Rivellis, a photographic figurehead in Greece since the '80s. Not really a fan of his photographic and teaching style, but he did wonders back then, in a time when getting properly exposed to good photography was extremely difficult. I think he got a bit left behind after the turn of the century, kinda languishing in the enterprise he created and the fame he acquired. Just my 2 cents, no disrespect meant.






Yes, this is Nara, near Osaka. Full of deer everywhere, asking for and getting fed with crackers from humans (99% tourists, obviously).

Oh Wow.!
I had no idea.
Lord knows stranger things happen, but still.
Kind of a wonderful thing to live with.

I suppose this is better than a few other alternatives.?
Pardon my philosophy, but.......... as soon as "Man" stopped living as part of nature, like our (usa) North American Indian for example.
We now lived outside of nature, so to speak.
We made way more food than we could eat, made stuff to beat disease and illness (often not always) and our numbers grew past what we were meant to be.

The deer have run out of room and have acclimated to urban life.
I hope they do not become a "Problem, Nuisance, Safety Concern" Etc etc etc
Not sure if deer have natural predators in japan.
Of course, if they do....... restaurants attract hungry eaters,
I wonder how all this will play out.
Has it been going smoothly for quite some time.?

My parents lived at the very perimeter of The Santa Cruz Mountains (usa) and they would get 3-Point bucks and family roaming their streets at last to first light.
I remember one year, i guess it was the bicentennial in 1976, my Dad and Mom grew a bunch of red white and blue flowers (usa flag colors)
A few days before hand, July 2 i think, the deer came by at night and chopped down every flower.
Seems there was a non-patriotic herd in the hills

 

[thicktheo]

I’ve been a student of his for the past two years, and he’s been a tremendous influence on my work. While his approach may not resonate with everyone, I think that’s true of most strong teaching positions ( like Karolos Koun in Greece or Sid Grossman in US).

Regarding the idea that he’s been left behind, to his credit he has recently been questioning many of his earlier views and engaging with new ideas and artists.

I suggest we take this conversation in private, so as not to hijack the main topic of the thread. Street photography should thrive more in a film forum.

The deer have run out of room and have acclimated to urban life.
I hope they do not become a "Problem, Nuisance, Safety Concern" Etc etc etc
Not sure if deer have natural predators in japan.
Of course, if they do....... restaurants attract hungry eaters,
I wonder how all this will play out.
Has it been going smoothly for quite some time.?

The deer in Nara are a quite different story than the 3-Point bucks in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I guess it is normal for wild animals to roam the outskirts of human civilization. In Nara, though, the deer are considered sacred (from the 8th century AD when a thunder god arrived riding a white deer), there are hundreds of them, and by now they have learned to bob their heads (in a bowing gesture) to every human they see as a way of asking for food. If they do this because of exposure to the Japanese culture of bowing as a greeting, then natural evolution can indeed be very fast.

 

[koraks]

It's offtopic, but the whole dichotomy of man vs. nature is something we constructed. It doesn't really exist. Deer overall don't care whether it's a town or woods they live in; as long as they can eat, breed and don't die off at a more rapid rate than they procreate, the population will thrive.

We have a habit of overlaying all kinds of romantic ideas and conceptions on the world around us. The world and biological life as such are mindless about such conceptions.

At a philosophical level we have somehow managed to place ourselves outside of the world around us ('nature' or whatever you might call it), but it's just a collective delusion. Everything's connected.

Deer don't distinguish between "flower bed" and "fodder". If they can eat it, it's food. Likewise, there's no real difference between "crop" and "weed". The distinction is the utility and desirability we attach to the plant.

Man never 'stopped living as part of nature'. We still do. What we eat is 'nature'. What we poop is 'nature'. The materials we use and surround ourselves with are 'nature'. And for as long as we've done this (which is our entire history), we have influenced the world around us - as every other species does. We just happen to be around in gigantic numbers, we have a habit of going pretty darn far in influencing our environs, and we tend to sort materials with extreme levels of OCD. It's inconsequential; physics and chemistry will de-sort it sooner or later again.

 

[CMoore]

I suggest we take this conversation in private, so as not to hijack the main topic of the thread. Street photography should thrive more in a film forum.



The deer in Nara are a quite different story than the 3-Point bucks in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I guess it is normal for wild animals to roam the outskirts of human civilization. In Nara, though, the deer are considered sacred (from the 8th century AD when a thunder god arrived riding a white deer), there are hundreds of them, and by now they have learned to bob their heads (in a bowing gesture) to every human they see as a way of asking for food. If they do this because of exposure to the Japanese culture of bowing as a greeting, then natural evolution can indeed be very fast.

That is a great story.!
1400 years.
May the Gods bless us with these sacred beasts for another 1400.
In a manner of speaking, they are feeding us as much as we are feeding them.

The photos of the deer in that website link are fantastic.
They really captured the deer as co-conspirators in our daily life
Color photography really hits the spot sometimes.!

 

[snusmumriken]

It's offtopic, but the whole dichotomy of man vs. nature is something we constructed. It doesn't really exist. Deer overall don't care whether it's a town or woods they live in; as long as they can eat, breed and don't die off at a more rapid rate than they procreate, the population will thrive.

We have a habit of overlaying all kinds of romantic ideas and conceptions on the world around us. The world and biological life as such are mindless about such conceptions.

At a philosophical level we have somehow managed to place ourselves outside of the world around us ('nature' or whatever you might call it), but it's just a collective delusion. Everything's connected.

Deer don't distinguish between "flower bed" and "fodder". If they can eat it, it's food. Likewise, there's no real difference between "crop" and "weed". The distinction is the utility and desirability we attach to the plant.

Man never 'stopped living as part of nature'. We still do. What we eat is 'nature'. What we poop is 'nature'. The materials we use and surround ourselves with are 'nature'. And for as long as we've done this (which is our entire history), we have influenced the world around us - as every other species does. We just happen to be around in gigantic numbers, we have a habit of going pretty darn far in influencing our environs, and we tend to sort materials with extreme levels of OCD. It's inconsequential; physics and chemistry will de-sort it sooner or later again.

Well yes and no. While I subscribe to that unified view of nature and the world, there is a distinction between man and the rest of nature, in that only man cares about human interests. The rest of nature is wrapped up in its own species-specific interests, and will variously destroy domestic livestock, crops or canal banks according to need. That does tend to create a sense of division!