Having set up my Villo subscription (free in 2010 and totally awesome by the way), I decided to finally start uploading my abandoned bikes sideproject. It is exactly what it sounds like – a collection of photos of weird/cool bicycles left or forgotten to rust away in various city streets. Feel free to send me your own pictures in case you would like me to use them..
This is how they sell music at the local market in Eivissa. A stand displays CD’s containing mixes made by the world’s biggest DJ’s for the famous local clubs. You can listen to any CD using the high quality professional headphones provided of brands like WeSC, Bose, Plantronics and Sennheiser. The checkered ones you see in the photo were made by Skullcandy. Literally everything on the island is geared towards partying and enjoying the electro scene, so it is next to impossible not to be in the going out mood!
I took this one a while ago, in the summer of 2009 in a supermarket 10 or so kilometers outside of Moscow. It really surprised me to find salted fish just sitting on a counter top in a liqueur isle of an otherwise quite civil looking supermarket. I guess that’s just something they still do in Russia. Right after a took the flash picture, the sales lady you see behind the counter got uneasy and told me that I should have warned her before shooting to give to time to check her makeup and hair. I decided not to tell her that I was more interested in the fish.
A snapshot from the old citadel of Eivissa (Ibiza) town. The citadel built by a Roman architect Juan Bautista Calvi in the mid 16th century is actually a UNESCO world heritage site. It took a bit of time and endurance to climb all the way to the top of the Dalt Vila (the high town), but the Almudaina castle and the beautiful 13th century cathedral were worth the effort. When I finally got to the summit the sun was already setting and a stage was being set up for a jazz festival. The difficult shooting conditions as well as my unsteady hands after a night of clubbing did not do much to help, but after a few tries I managed to get a crisp shot with a decent exposure level.
I noticed this tomb on the way to the Yssyk-Kul lake in the highland region of Kyrgyzstan. Even though it is not very old, the dramatic clouds in the sky and the horizon line defined by the jagged mountain tops help give this photo a sense of intensity. The dried grass in the foreground also works well with the overall composition. The landscape we see here is a steppe, typical in this region of central Asia. For their burial ceremonies they often construct grand house-shaped memorials out of clay. With time, as the local weather takes its toll these monuments slowly decay under the influence of winds and rain. This symbolizes an ancient belief of unity with nature and the passage to the spirit world after we leave the material world.
A beautiful photo my wife took on our trip to Moscow. The russian dolls (matryoshki) were on display at a souvenir vendor’s stand on the Vorobyovy gory. Those hills are famous for their panoramic view of the Moscow city and are adjacent to the Moscow State University (MGU). It is not surprising that many commerces were installed around that area offering fast food and souvenirs at much heftier prices than can be found elsewhere.
Spring is upon us, so with the sun shining I am walking around the area with my camera again trying to snatch bright joyous photos of the surroundings. I took this picture of an old tree in the Tenbosch park on a beautiful cloudless Sunday morning. The blue sky is clearly visible because of the upward perspective which also makes us lost in the branches because no horizon is visible.
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