Posts Tagged ‘canon ae-1’

May 11th, 2008 from a roll developed the other day

April 13th, 2008 bonus image

looking down from the steps in front of the ruins of st paul’s church. how many cameras can you count pointing upwards?

on other matters, reading this blog entry (’made in japan’) makes me shake my head. subtitled, ‘can digital photography be considered inherently japanese?’, gary mcleod’s line of reasoning is tenuous, beginning with cultural appropriation,where purchasing digital technology and producing it themselves will alone make it inherently japanese in the minds of the users. but no matter the badge on the camera, technology stands seperately. the user thinks, ‘my canon 400d is one in the long line of japanese designed cameras’; and not ‘ccd (charge coupled device) is a japanese technology!’

yugen and aware are cited as relevant japanese aesthetics in digital photography, taken to mean things that cannot be described and impermanence, respectively. if we accept that they do apply to aspects of digital photgraphy (inability to reproduce the three dimensional perspective of the viewer, data loss), why would they not apply similarly to film? this is not an argument along the lines of which is the most aesthetic form in the orientalist discussion of japanese aesthetics amongst western scholars. but if his conclusion is that we should use the japanese qualities of digital photography as a bridge to understanding japanese ways… i don’t know, he has completely lost me in his objectifying babble.

it then makes me think the article serves more to promote the author’s photography, a series of time lapsed photographs pasted together. perhaps we can accept impermanence here sas the pictures may be taken over several minutes or hours, but when the digital image is presented to me on the screen, i have a hard time contemplating ambiguity.

and now i’m going to sleep.

April 13th, 2008 macau

two ways to go to macau from hong kong: helicopter, no heavy luggage allowed; or via boat or hydrofoil. be prepared for the wobbles upon boarding and getting off. where’s that white bag…

my first real portuguese egg tart from macau. second best is the one i sampled in melbourne at the hopetoun tearooms. same flaky pastry and for some reason, liquid that comes out from under the burnt top…

58th floor of the macau tower. don’t look down at the glass floor, no really. if that doesn’t make you queasy, continue to the 61st and bungee jump.

i was intrigued by the lion statues.

i hadn’t shot walking around with my ae1 for ages. i had just but given up on using manual cameras…