100 things: 100 photos - photo 1
I am going to be contrary and start off as I DON'T plan to continue. I mainly photograph cityscapes, landscapes and buildings. On occasion I try my hand at portraits, but I'm not really a portrait photographer.
Also I am going to mainly post digital photos, and thus relatively recent ones. I used to be an ardent black white analogue photographer and I have a huge backlog of traditional photographs. Unfortunately I have hardly scanned any of them.
[Today's photo and story]
The following photo is one of a huge series I took of my friend Dimitris in his home in Athens. It is rare that I find a model as obliging or as photogenic as Dimitris. His only demand was that I also take a couple of semi-nude photos as well for him to use on gaydar. (Yeah, as if you can score guys using arty b&w photographs! He quickly replaced them.)
I used my father's Leica M6, which is an absolutely gorgeous camera. I used it for many many years and loved it to bits. If I remember correctly I had the 50mm lens on, which was my absolutely favourite lens. I will never enjoy photography again as much as I did with the Leica and b&w film... I even developed and printed my own photographs for a couple of years...
Also I am going to mainly post digital photos, and thus relatively recent ones. I used to be an ardent black white analogue photographer and I have a huge backlog of traditional photographs. Unfortunately I have hardly scanned any of them.
[Today's photo and story]
The following photo is one of a huge series I took of my friend Dimitris in his home in Athens. It is rare that I find a model as obliging or as photogenic as Dimitris. His only demand was that I also take a couple of semi-nude photos as well for him to use on gaydar. (Yeah, as if you can score guys using arty b&w photographs! He quickly replaced them.)
I used my father's Leica M6, which is an absolutely gorgeous camera. I used it for many many years and loved it to bits. If I remember correctly I had the 50mm lens on, which was my absolutely favourite lens. I will never enjoy photography again as much as I did with the Leica and b&w film... I even developed and printed my own photographs for a couple of years...
