Dollhouse II

September 2012, Patissia, Athens

If you find the time, please come and stay a while
In my beautiful neighbourhood

In a hundred and ten they haven't paid the rent
So there goes the TV with the repo men
In 999 they make a living from crime
The house is always empty 'cause they're all doing time

In number 18 there lives a big butch queen
He's bigger than Tyson and he's twice as mean
In 666 there lives a Mr. Miller
He's our local vicar and a serial killer

~ Space, "Neighbourhood"

Dollhouse I

September 2012, Patissia, Athens

Who lives in a house like this?

They want to knock us down 'cause they think we're scum
But we will all be waiting when the bulldozers come
In a neighbourhood like this you know it's hard to survive
So you'd better come prepared 'cause they won't take us alive

If you find the time, please come and stay a while
In my beautiful neighbourhood

~ Space, "Neighbourhood"

Existential

September 2012, Patissia, Athens

This is obviously an abstraction symbolizing mankind's eternal fear of the dark and the unknown, of what lies beyond the tunnel, with religious and metaphysical undertones in the subject matter, while the loose composition subtly reminds us of man's existential agony in the face of death.

OR, this is me taking pictures stone drunk in the wee hours of the morning, and neglecting to keep my fingers away from the lens. Take your pick.

Break of dawn

September 2012, Patissia, Athens

All About Eve III

August 2012, Exarcheia, Athens

All About Eve II

August 2012, Exarcheia, Athens

"Like some magic perfume!"

~ All About Eve, 1950

All About Eve I

August 2012, Exarcheia, Athens

Sponge

August 2012, Lisbon Aquarium

And that's why we're thinking
That's why we're drinking
In a bar under the sea

~ dEUS, "Disappointed in the sun"

Roman orgy

August 2012, Lisbon Aquarium

You're a liar, said the last whore
Mine's the biggest of all
A fleet sailed in on the first of June
And didn't come back till fall

~ "Baltimore Whores" (traditional)

Bioluminescence

August 2012, Lisbon Aquarium

MOBILIS IN MOBILI

~ Jules Verne, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"

Otters!

August 2012, Lisbon Aquarium

Now let ev'ry man drink off his full bumper,
And let ev'ry man drink off his full glass;
We'll drink and be jolly and drown melancholy,
And here's to the health of each true-hearted lass.

~ "Spanish ladies" (traditional)

Matte

August 2012, Lisbon

Leftover II: Puritan

August 2011, Boston

Leftover I: Manhattan

August 2011, New York

Camara

August 2012, Navy Museum, Lisbon

Kodak + Zeiss Tessar 1:6.3 / 13 cm

Red and black

August 2012, Navy Museum, Lisbon

Cutter

August 2012, Navy Museum, Lisbon

I rose to the smell of a wet desert hell
and I thought to myself, how'd I wind up in this jail?

Till a voice called to me from deep within the sea:

“Dry your eyes, my little fisherman, your ass belongs to me.”

The sea is a cruel mistress.

~ Flogging Molly, "Cruel mistress"

Starboard

August 2012, Navy Museum, Lisbon

Quisiera morir cantando sobre de un barco leñero
Y cultivar en sus aguas un libro mas justiciero
Con letras de oro que diga "No hay padre para el isleño"
Llorando estoy - Ni viento pa su leñero, me voy me voy

~ Violetta Parra, "Según el favor del viento"

Wax

August 2012, Navy Museum, Lisbon 

We wrapped them all in a mainsail tight
with twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved them over and out of sight
 

with a yo-heave-ho and a fare-ye-well
and a sudden plunge in the sullen swell,
ten fathoms deep on the road to hell
 

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum

  

~ Abney Park, "The Derelict"

Proibida

August 2012, Lisbon

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2012 ii

August 2012, Lisbon

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2012 i

August 2012, Lisbon

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Volt

August 2012, Lisbon

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Tile

August 2012, Sintra

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Mushroom

August 2012, Sintra

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Gate II: Sinister

August 2012, Sintra

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Gate I: Mellow

August 2012, Sintra

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Frugal

August 2012, Sintra

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Bent

August 2012, Sintra

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Balls

August 2012, Sintra

Unfamiliar with new blogger interface. Layout may be a mess for a while. Sigh.

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Aim

August 2012, Sintra

Descent

August 2012, Lisbon

Novice

August 2012, Lisbon

Death and music

August 2012, Lisbon

Bat

August 2012, Lisbon

...What?

August 2012, Lisbon

Brain

August 2012, Lisbon

Slide

August 2012, Lisbon

Bins

August 2012, Lisbon

Dispose

August 2012, Lisbon

Puzzle

August 2012, Lisbon

Manueline

August 2012, Lisbon

Trickle

August 2012, Lisbon

And now I feel like an idiot.

My default film mode when using the Lumix is "B&W Dynamic", which (I assume) is B&W with some contrast, which (I guess) emulates better the old film practice of printing on "hard" paper.

During this trip, I shot almost exclusively in colour, and thought "that's alright, if I want B&W pictures, I'll process them later - how hard can it be?"

Apparently, A LOT. I just can't get it right. So what do I do from now on? Do I practice, fumbling blindly, hoping the right method will spontaneously emerge at some point? Do I look up tutorials? For what exactly? "Convert colour to B&W in a Jenny-satisfying manner"?

Ughh!

Spider-man

August 2012, Lisbon

Tomb

August 2012, Lisbon

Globe

August 2012, Lisbon

Boat

August 2012, Lisbon

"Now, bring me that horizon."
~ Jack Sparrow
 

Target lock

August 2012, Lisbon

Sling

August 2012, Lisbon

Canopy

August 2012, Lagonisi