Sofia III
Peep show, cats and cleaning in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sofia II
Leica M7, Zeiss ZM 2/35 and Ilford HP5+. And a very wet morning.
Sofia I
While running around to try to repair the camera, I have been catching up with the scanning and processing of some sets of photographs taken at the end of last year. This is the first of a short sequence of black-and-white film (HP5+) images, taken just before Christmas in Sofia, Bulgaria. This was a working trip, and something of a disaster photographically. One mis-loaded film meant loosing most of a day of images (grumble grumble superior Leica engineering…), while the second film was partly destroyed after opening the camera before rewinding the […]
Hotel Relicario
To finish off the sequence “Relics”, some photographs and information about the hotel and surrounding area where the pictures were taken. Unusually, we have a mix of colour, black-and-white, digital and film images all shown together – reflecting the diverse photographic subject matter in this area. The Hotel Relicário is a strange place. The lasting impression is of a mountain refuge crossed with an antiques museum. It is one of the most unique places that we have ever visited, and one of the few that we would without reservation (or possibly with) return […]
Relics XII: Exit
The last in the series. Leica M7 with Zeiss 2/35 and Ilford HP5+. For the terminally curious, the remainder of the series of candidate images for this sequence are here: Tomorrow, back to some colour photography…
Relics XI
Leica M7 with Zeiss 2/35 and Ilford HP5+.
Relics X
Old wooden desk. The building is in quite bad condition here, with sections of the roof having collapsed. Leica M7 with Zeiss 2/35 and Ilford HP5+.
Relics IX
Abandoned plough, small wooden cart and cachaça still.
Relics VIII
I have no idea what to make of this. It seems likely that the toothed wheel was at some point recycled as part of a table, before the building was abandoned.
Relics VII
A room with a view (and good ventilation).
Relics V
Abandoned house. I think that this was originally as part of a hotel expansion, but it is now gradually disintegrating.
Relics IV
Abandoned chair with writing desk and cabinet. Taken with the Lecia M7 with Zeiss 2/35 and Ilford HP5+. The light was very low and it was quite difficult to hold the camera steady while trying also to get the framing in a rather confined space.
Relics III
Abandoned wooden cart and cachaça still.
Relics I: Gateway
I am still catching up with the film processing and scanning. This is the first in a series of images all taken of or around abandoned buildings at the astonishing Hotel Relicário, in Minas Gerais. We will write more about the hotel specifically later on. All the photographs in this series were taken with the Leica M7, Zeiss ZM 2/35 and Ilford HP5+ (the last roll I had left on this trip).
Cachoeira
Brazil has quite a serious drought at the moment, but the cachoeiras are still running. And where there is a shortage of beaches, seemingly all the people run to the waterfalls… Composite of two images, taken with the Leica and Ilford HP5+ film.
Reliquías do Tempo
The Pousada Reliquías do Tempo, Diamantina.
Transient Eye 