DRoll #1 : “Just Another Day in Rouen”

Remember what I said about plans and the blog ? That I couldn’t keep one. Well, once again, I prove myself right.

Pentax K10D ~ 17-70 @17 F/2,8 ~ISO 100

There’s one thing I love with wide angle (24mm on an SLR) : people who aren’t familiar with the gear won’t think for a second that I’m actually making a portrait of them.

And I love making a second shot just after I announce them they were on the first one.

Pentax K10D ~ 17-70 @17 F/2,8 ~ISO 100

There’s always the “you were taking a picture of me?!” face.

Fuck wordpress, the colors are all dull and boring and totally fuck up the time I spend on softwares to edit them correctly. What’s the purpose of the extended sRGB move if you can’t use it properly!

Pentax K10D ~ 50 F/1,4 @ F/2 ~ISO 100

So, once again, another set of shots at a café… except this time, there aren’t neither the coffee nor the big-headphones-slash-decoy on the picture.

The fucker decided to die a month ago or so.

Pentax K10D ~ 50 F/1,4 @ F/2 ~ISO 100

Another shy muse.

A real shy muse.

What the hell is happening with beautiful women, huh ? When have they all become shy – so shy I need to do some sneaky-tricky shots of them ?

Or maybe it’s the camera which is approximately as big as a F5 / D3. Or a 1D if you like Canon.

Quite heavy. It obstruct three quarter of my face … but I always try to have one eye on the subject.

The muse.

Because, I do take pictures to remember them, but I also like to see them with my own naked eye.

A picture is always subjective, whereas reality … well, you simply have to live la vida loca, right ?

Pentax K10D ~ 17-70 @ 17 F/2,8 ~ISO 100

Speaking of la vida loca, those guys weren’t French at all. I don’t think they even spoke a word of French.

Not the guys with the flags.

The musicians.

They were quite nice. They made this walkout interesting.

Pentax K10D ~ 17-70 @ 17 F/2,8 ~ISO 100

Yeah, I missed this one. The guys are all blurry and shit.

Should have focus on the persons … but, hey, I was on the ground and …

I didn’t have the reflex to change the AF.

Grave erreur

Unforgivable one, even.

Won’t happen again.

… finally, this dSLR can produce some good stuff.

More to come soon, I hope

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On a more personal note, I have to admit that restoring my faith in humanity was worth it. The above proves it, I hope with brio. But you’re the only judge, you, viewer.

I spent a rather pleasant afternoon with her and another girl.

I don’t think I can compare it with some I spent with BeN before he left for Oxford, but, of course, he doesn’t have this kind of beauty haha.

It was … different.

Pleasantly different.

I hope to do that again sometimes.

Even though I don’t know if this will happen again.

Who knows ?

The Logical Song

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well theyd be singing so happily,
Joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible,
Logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
Clinical, intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

Now watch what you say or theyll be calling you a radical,
Liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Wont you sign up your name, wed like to feel youre
Acceptable, respecable, presentable, a vegtable!

At night, when all the worlds asleep,
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man.
Wont you please, please tell me what weve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

— Supertramp

First time I smiled for no reason for MONTHS! And shed some tears.

I had a musigasm.

Homeworld

Nothing can take us far enough
Emotion… far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in

Nothing can bridge our souls
Devotion… fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin

So many displaced among the future dreamers
Realised their doubles
Took a new step
A question of origin

Only in the recent past
Seeking for to realise
Skyward shone
Like beacons
A question of origin

Ten thousand millions free
To the westward light
The dreamers represent
This arc of peace

As the poets entranced
The anchor redeemed
Secrets of science
The history of the future
Was surely made

Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realise
Our home
Is our world, our life
Home is our world

Nothing can take us far enough
Emotion… far enough together
As the light shines so bright
Bright enough to let us in

Nothing can bridge our souls
Devotion… fast enough together
As the power proves you right
Right enough to let you begin

Speak so fast to the prophets
Of the living
Looking for the signs
Spanning out the centuries
Search for truth

Ancient ones… they watch
And listen
Carry our wishes
Took upon themselves to guide us
Through the endless skies

Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realise
Our home
Is our world, our life
Our hope is our world, our life

I have seen the passion
Thats in the hope that everyone
Will find their way into
The secret of
The home of your heart

Living within the vision
Within the power, beyond belief
We see that hate destroys the soul
Of anyone who tries to teach it

I have seen the dream
Thats in your heart
Thats in your eyes
To bring you closer to the one

Its what keeps us so alive
Its what makes us realise
Our home is our world, our life
Just what keeps us so alive
Just what makes us realise
Our home
Is our world, our life
Home is our world, our life

Send, ascending to the secrets
All is pure and clear to resolve
Nothing can change us now
Send, ascending to the future
Nothing can ever change us now
We follow the sun
We follow the sun
We follow the sun

Truth is a simple place
Here for us all to see
Reach as it comes to you
As it comes to me
As I will always need you inside my heart

Peace is a word we teach
A place for us all to reach
Sing as it sings to you
As it sings to me
As I will always need you inside my heart

— Yes

feels good to be home.

#173

Yup, that’s one of those posts which have no proper title.

I have to admit my imagination is somewhat altered by the recent discovery that my brain and, more importantly, my heart, haven’t been working that well lately.

Or at least as well as they used to.

But, as the vast majority of things around us, both can be fixed. I never really ask myself how to do that though…

Maybe I should.

Maybe I do it unconcisously…

Maybe not.

Who knows ?

Besides, even if I had the method, would that mean I can apply it ?

Will the process work ?

Do I want to return in a previous state?

An “old yet younger” me ?

I’m not sure I want that.

Perhaps (not maybe) the real reason of all this is to melt the previous “dreamer” me with the more “pragmatic” one.

Perhaps everyone does that, and yet noone expresses all those feelings to anyone else but themselves.

Perhaps I’m letting the cat out of the bag here.

Dunno.

…but this time, I’d like to know.

Of course, it’s not like everyone will suddenly pop out of nowhere and tell me everything.

It’s not the purpose of all this.

The purpose was – and still is – to be interested in humanity.

I guess it’s time to renew my faith in it.

For everyone is not lost, and I sincerely hope they’re not.

Who knows … maybe it’s the way to feel good again.

who knows ?

No more rolls

I was supposed to get 2 new rolls today, and to scan them tomorrow … and probably edit them the same day.

Apparently, both of them were handed back to my father (whom I use as an agent when in my hometown) totally white …

I knew one of them was likely to be a failure, but both of them …

It can only mean two things : either my SLR is out of order, or – and I hope this is the real reason – I loaded the second one too quickly without paying much attention.

Quite frankly, there’s one being developped right now, so I hope it won’t be messed up…

Because I can’t afford a FF dSLR right now, and it’s not likely to happen until … probably a year or two …

I mean, I could buy a second hand 5D, but that would mean going into the Canon system … which I’d like to avoid as much as possible.

Nikon rox.

Canon makes good cameras, but they … always lack something. Except the pros, the 1D and 1Ds … but I will never have 4500€ to put in a camera. Except if I become a professional photographer, of course.

*RANDOM YELLS OF ANGER*

The Story

I don’t know how to begin
‘Cause the story has been told before
I will sing along I suppose
I guess it’s just how it goes

And now those sprangs in the air
I don’t go down anywhere
I guess it’s just how it goes
The stories have all been told before

But if you don’t try
The light won’t hit your eye
And the moon won’t rise
Before it’s time

But if you don’t try
The light won’t hit your eye
And the moon won’t rise
Before it’s time

But I don’t know how it will end
With all those records playin’
I guess it’s just how it goes
The stories have all been told before
I guess it’s just how it goes
The stories have all been told… before
I guess it’s just how it goes…

— Norah Jones

Describe yourself in three sentences #2

I’m a feeling catcher.

An emotion maker.

Your thoughts are my playground.