Most-Industrial Intruders In a Post-Industrial Scene
Please, View it on black.
Mamiya C330, 80mm lens, f/11, 1/125, Kodak Ektar 100, no light metering (Sunny f/16).
Exposure number: 2.
Changes to the original: B/W treatment, picture straightening.
I fell in love with this old house at first sight but then my vision was disturbed by the shiny Porsche car and the Renault Scenic on the left. They just didn’t fit in the scene. I was about to push the shutter button when my eye caught sight of the bike coming from afar. Remember that the Mamiya’s viewfinder is horizontal and you look at it from above, without your eyes being “stuck” in it like in your typical SLR/DSLR that’s how I could see the bike coming. So I waited for it to be between the two cars and there you go!
While the Kodak Ektar 100 is color neg and I liked the way this picture looked with colors on, I think that B/W is better for this kind of scene.
I spotted this church entrance while strolling with my relatives in downtown Sables d’Olonne. Mostly aged persons went and came through this door. What drew my attention is of course the obvious association between the very old looking stones of this particular church’s walls (the Atlantic Ocean is probably 400 meters at most from this place) and the aged persons. So I decided to just stand there and wait. My back was on a closed shop’s window hence the rather tight framing and I was expecting someone like the woman featured on the picture. A few persons came out but though aged, they looked in a pretty good shape and then this woman came out and I closed the shutter and only then I realized that I had an Ektar 100 film loaded and not some nifty XP2 400 ;-).
While the picture doesn’t look particularly straight, that’s because the steps are a bit of a slope…
