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On the streets of London with an Olympus XA2

Posted on August 12, 2015August 13, 2015 by eddietay in Monochrome

An Olympus XA2 is light, small and discreet.

I’d raise it to my eye and no one would notice.

Even if they do notice, people would be less likely to react, compared to if you point at them with a gigantic Canon 5D Mark III.

You could capture people and their environment – the lens is wide enough.

There’s the interaction between person and space.

Its convenience cannot be overemphasized – a matter of pulling the camera out of your cargo pants pocket when the opportunity presents itself.

Camera: Olympus XA2

Film: Ilford XP2 400

Blindness to the Streets

Posted on August 8, 2015August 8, 2015 by eddietay in Uncategorized

There’s a blindness to the streets we need to learn to see.

There’s the individual, and there’s society.

The street looks back.

We negotiate the streets.

We work the streets.

We refresh the streets.

The street is at rest.

Thanks for reading!

Camera: Olympus XA2

Film: Ilford XP2 400

Camera: Olympus XA2

Film: Ilford XP2 400

Street Photography, Street Wisdom

Posted on August 5, 2015August 5, 2015 by eddietay in Monochrome

Never turn your back on the street.

Some streets are for sale.

Other streets are for friends.

Streets are for hanging around.

There’s a street attitude to tease out.

You’ll never know who is looking from the street.

Some streets are nicer.

Some streets are more equal than others.

Thanks for reading!

Camera: Olympus XA2

Film: Ilford XP2 400

Street Photography Ethos

Posted on August 1, 2015July 12, 2015 by eddietay in Monochrome

There’re no real aims to street photography.

You walk, you see, you shoot and hope it makes visual sense.

It gives one something to do – one could be a tourist in a way as to avoid a degree of manufactured experience.

Go to all the tourist spots – but go at it from a tangent.

Sometimes you wonder why there’s so much of sitting around.

At other times you see there’s another way of seeing – capturing the London Eye without capturing the London Eye.

One could pretend to be a tourist and not stand out from the crowd.

Perhaps there’s such a thing as visual addiction.

By doing street photography, one commits to a certain way of being in the world.

Thanks for reading!

Camera: Olympus XA2

Film: Ilford XP2 400

Street Photography: Film vs Digital

Posted on July 29, 2015July 12, 2015 by eddietay in Monochrome

In general, there’re two approaches available for the street photographer who uses both digital and film cameras.

With a digital camera, you could take multiple shots of the same scene.

You could take a shot that you think might not work but do it just to see what happens.

In other words, you could AFFORD to experiment with a digital camera.

With a film camera, you’d tend to be more circumspect.

This means that film photography reveals your competency.

After all, even if you could afford it, a wasted shot is wasted film.

Thanks for reading.

Camera: Olympus XA2

Film: Ilford XP2 400

Getting Out of a Creative Rut

Posted on May 19, 2015May 19, 2015 by eddietay in Monochrome

Some days, it seems like things just won’t come together.

You’re feeling blocked.

The framing is off.

You look up.

You look back at people.

You look up again.

You try again.

What else can one do, but try to fail better.

And then you get the feeling that things are coming together finally.

And you find something that makes sense, finally.

Camera: Leica M6

Lens: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 SC

Film: Ilford XP2 400

All that Labour

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 by eddietay in Monochrome

All that labour.

Those goods on display.

Yummy stuff.

Sometimes we don’t see all the work that goes into work.

We negotiate a life.

And a city emerges.

It’s bigger than us.

The labour of thinking.

Camera: Leica M6

Lens: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 SC

Film: Ilford XP2 400

From Place to Place It Must Mean Something

Posted on April 28, 2015April 28, 2015 by eddietay in Uncategorized

Today, we look at the act of pushing.

All that work, all day, must mean something.

This is us.

We sort things out.

We go from place to place.

From place to place it must mean something.

The pull of desire.

All that pushing…

Camera: Leica M6

Lens: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 SC

Film: Ilford XP2 400

Night Vision

Posted on March 16, 2015March 11, 2015 by eddietay in Monochrome

A vision of the night.

There’s usually nothing to see.

Still, we try.

It’s a time for reflection.

We try to think.

We sit.

And rest.

Camera: Leica M6

Lens: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 SC

Film: Ilford XP2 400

How We Live with Concrete

Posted on March 11, 2015March 11, 2015 by eddietay in Monochrome

I’m fascinated by what you could see when coming down the Mid-Levels Escalator at Central in Hong Kong.

You could see lots of small businesses, restaurants and shops.

You could also see unruly leaves and branches against grey concrete buildings.

They’re part of human activity.

Things happen, though they don’t always announce themselves.

Life is understated sometimes.

At other times, it is in your face.

This is how concrete lives.

How we live with concrete.

The unruly beauty of nature and concrete.

We can’t help but look again and again.

Camera: Leica M6

Lens: Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 SC

Film: Ilford XP2 400

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