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The trip in NZ is over, and it's time to travel back to Raiatea. And as NZ and French Polynesia are almost on one side and another of the international time line, we also travelled back in time! We left Auckland the 5th of August at 11:00 AM and arrived in Papeete the 4th of August 11:55PM! And after a good sleep, we were again the 5th!! :)))
Those of you who have looked through my river_kings album will know I was waiting to develop two rolls of waterlogged 120 film from that same trip, and that most of the larger labs I know were refusing to process the negatives until I found a way to dry them out. Luckily, I came across a technician in a small lab in Collingwood who had no issue with the water, and ran the negs through for me straight away. These are the results.
I ran out of 120 film in Sydney just prior to catching the ferry back to Rose Bay. Determined not to miss what I figured would be a great photo opportunity, I found a crappy little imaging store and grabbed a roll of 35. I knew I had to cover the Holga's red plastic window, but there was no gaffer tape anywhere in the store, so I stuck a bit of cardboard over the back as best I could, figuring that that would be enough to stop too much light leaking through. Nope.
The obligatory self-portrait along the Newport, RI cliff walk.
Lomo 135 M camera with 35mm Kodachrome (K-14) film processed by Dwayne's Photo 1/25/2011. One of the last Kodochrome rolls EVER developed in history! Scanned with my Epson V700 and my new Digitaliza mask.
NO PHOTOSHOP - double exposed Kodak EIR (color infrared) Aerochrome film (E6 process) in a Holga 120 N camera with a Tiffen Red 25 filter - POTD 11/22/2010 - Thank you everyone for your likes and comments!
celebrating new years eve with friends... ive made lots of pictures, but i just picked my favorites for you!
it was a rowdy party under the motto fifties!
goodbye 2010, you was good to me!
Well, Samarkand is certainly one of the oldest cities, it just recently celebrated ist 2750 anniversary. This is already wicked enough and has mainly to do with the glorious history of the silk road and being in the middle of the trade route between Europe and Asia. The city has seen many rulers over the centuries and every empire set ist mark. There have been the Persians, who were defeated eventually by Alexander the Great. Western Turks and Arabs brought Islam to the area which remained the predominant religion and was only shortly disturbed by Mongolian rule and the soviets. Last named had of course a major impact on the whole region. The Russians sacked Samarkand in 1868 and eventually it became the capital of the new founded Uzbek SSR in 1925, which status it lost five years later. But lets quit the over all definition to a more personalized one. I was invited to work as a German teacher in a languagecamp in the south of Uzbekistan this very summer. I received actually some sort of a diplomatic status, because i was invited by the GTZ, which is dealing with practical support for the development of the region. During the camp i got to know this very special girl called lola. She was quite fit in languages and worked as a guide in her hometown Samarkand. And her heritage already tells a lot about the region. Her father is tadschik, which is the state surrounding the greater country of Uzbekistan. But before the Russians came there was nothing like states in the ares. People mainly lived like nomads and rather referred to their families and tribes than to ruling by a king or a president. The soviets created the first ever known borders and defined as well the languages of the regions. Of course this seems ridicolous, but it had some advantages as well. I hired lola as my guide in Samarkand and seeing old pictures in one medressa of old people wearing turbans I as
Well, Samarkand is certainly one of the oldest cities, it just recently celebrated ist 2750 anniversary. This is already wicked enough and has mainly to do with the glorious history of the silk road and being in the middle of the trade route between Europe and Asia. The city has seen many rulers over the centuries and every empire set ist mark. There have been the Persians, who were defeated eventually by Alexander the Great. Western Turks and Arabs brought Islam to the area which remained the predominant religion and was only shortly disturbed by Mongolian rule and the soviets. Last named had of course a major impact on the whole region. The Russians sacked Samarkand in 1868 and eventually it became the capital of the new founded Uzbek SSR in 1925, which status it lost five years later. But lets quit the over all definition to a more personalized one. I was invited to work as a German teacher in a languagecamp in the south of Uzbekistan this very summer. I received actually some sort of a diplomatic status, because i was invited by the GTZ, which is dealing with practical support for the development of the region. During the camp i got to know this very special girl called lola. She was quite fit in languages and worked as a guide in her hometown Samarkand. And her heritage already tells a lot about the region. Her father is tadschik, which is the state surrounding the greater country of Uzbekistan. But before the Russians came there was nothing like states in the ares. People mainly lived like nomads and rather referred to their families and tribes than to ruling by a king or a president. The soviets created the first ever known borders and defined as well the languages of the regions. Of course this seems ridicolous, but it had some advantages as well. I hired lola as my guide in Samarkand and seeing old pictures in one medressa of old people wearing turbans I as
