Not much to tell about these images, except that this was where the man in the previous post was looking at.

Compared to yesterday's post this image is closer to technical perfection. It also is transporting a moment of emotions and feelings.

...who cares about technical perfection? Photography sometimes is nothing more as transporting a moment of emotions and feelings.

Dreaming of the new collection for this autumn...

A wonderful graffiti on a corner in Barcelona...

... taken outside of Barcelona Airport

I am playing already a longer time to try some black and white film... in a dusty box I store my work from 25 years ago and this Sunday afternoon I installed the scanner and scanned some images from that time.

Found those negatives and scanned a few... to get from a technical point of view reasonable results out of them was so easy. I remember hours and hours in the dark room, now just some levels and curves that's it.

With this image as a young student, I won the first price in a competition, it still has some charm to me therefore worth to share some of my very old work here.

Today some images quite different from my usual style. It is good to experiment from time to time and leave the comfortable path where you know what you do. These have been made in the hospital were my wife had to stay a few days (she is fine again now). After long looking at the light I decided it was worth a try..

one more from Barcelona, some highly artistic gratify...

I have been traveling last days and just returned home... no exiting long trip far away... to compensate my silence a first impression from Barcelona Airport.

Originating in 1975, Paducah Photo has grown from a fledgling contest to the Mid-South's most prestigious annual photographic event.

This year's juror is Michael Johnson is a Professor of Art at Murray State University and Director of "Magic Silver", one of the largest international juried photography exhibitions. Johnson has been teaching photography at MSU for 37 years.

The Paducah Photo '10 Exhibition will be held at the Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway and will run from June 19 through July 24.

My contribution:

More information on: http://www.theyeiser.org/

... it took me some time to post this image. For me the image does transport a decisive moment there however is no motion, no person.

What makes it possible to feel a decisive moment without those elements?

One part can be found in the light... the light here is something like the saying that you can not step in the same river twice...

On the other hand we're left alone with the question if there is someone out there in the light. Will the person show up in the image in a moment or did someone just disappear... you never will know what I saw.

The decisive moment solely exist in our imagination, we see something what is not there: an imaginary decisive moment!

I was not 100% sure about showing this one, the distortion is a bit disturbing but after all it has some magic feeling I think...

Syria - Deir Samaan (Monastery of Simeon) - May 2009

We arrived in Sittwe in the west of Burma late afternoon. During the daytime there was an solar eclipse and the street was full of emotions and excitement. I took an incredible number of images of the people in the street, this girl has been following me and definitively wanted to pose as well.

This portrait definitively is more soft and less intense as the previous one.

The girl wears traditional Thanaka face paint which is worn as decoration and sun block.

.. one year ago in Aleppo, another moment, another street.

Enjoy!

Another decisive moment or 3 and a half.....

A decisive moment from Aleppo (Syria).

There still are images from Syria in the pipeline, this one is just a preview from the trip to Burma earlier this year.

I met this homeless boy on the fish market in Sittwe, it seems he was not really welcome there... He was shy, afraid of the adults, isolated. It took me some time to convince him to pose for a portrait at this unfriendly place. He was standing there with some dignity, showing a difficult life. Besides some friendliness he got some money, at least that morning he must have had a good start in the day.

I worked hard on my b&w technique, my target was to not have such a clean digital image with just good tones. The final image has some (digital) grain, toning and I am happy about the sharpening result.

Normally I am not the one to talk about technique but I found some great hints last days:

- The sharpening workflow is described at Earthbound Light.

- The (digital) grain was taken from Nikos Kantarakias.

- The concept for toning I found in the blog of George Barr.

Grain was applied after the sharpening, I think grain should not be sharpened.

Thanks for the inspiration!

During the Syria trip I visited a small village with Beehive houses (one on the background of the building), it was empty and nobody seems to be at home. Then the girl showed up and waved to come in for a tea.

Streets in Syria were too full for me, I did manage some portrait (see previous posts) but I just have a few shots from the streets. Today a first one:

maybe I am going to make a series of the "men at work"... at least I am going to post a bit more in the blog.

The images from Syria are quite different from the images from Cuba. Less street work but more portraits mainly from men at work.

I am back home now from our last trip to Burma. The images are stored on hard disk and look promising. Before showing work from Burma I first am going to continue with images from Syria.

Last days some work from Syria, we are leaving now for next trip. Today we're leaving for Myanmar.

unconventional composition in this photo...

Syria was different from Cuba and other places I visited before. In Mali I started with portraits, in Cuba besides the portraits street photography became the subject. In Syria for me the streets where too full, too crowded. When I look at first work from Syria I see more portraits, less decisive moments.

Today a first portrait from the Syria trip:

Two more portraits of the price winning photograph:

Together with Associació Demé there is an exhibition from December 12th till December 31st.

Read the announcement here!

1st price in photo competition by UNICEF Netherlands: