He just had to be in the picture (A major disappointment)

© Joselito Briones

So I was taking this small gate of one of my neighbors, and this kid just sped through, which is just as well, the version without him had absolutely nothing going for it.

You'll just have to get used to these pics. I haven't been doing anything else lately but take pictures and scanning them, so if I don't write to you about them, I've got nothing else to write about.


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Oh yeah, major disappointment yesterday. I did this competition piece for a furniture design. I finished it yesterday, after about two weeks on picking on the details. Surprise, surprise, when I went to the DHL center they told me they don't have overnight delivery. HA! I shoved my entry in the bottom drawer.


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The serial scanner

© Joselito Briones

I think I've become a serial scanner. Encouraged by yesterday's photo, I decided to dig up other films. This one is the film version of a digital image that you've seen before, from the Malt Whiskey Society of Edinburg, in Scottland.

I went coo coo when I discovered that the lab where I took the film (in London, close to where we used to live) messed up the whole roll. It had more speckles and scratches than a silent movie, and I had to spend so much time to repair it. In the end though, it was worth it. I'm thinking of having it printed poster size. The film is in medium format, there's enough detail in it.


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P.S.
This is what the Flickr people has to say about the photo.


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Cross processing

© Joselito Briones

Something new today. I decided to have a roll of film cross processed, one I took same day as the Erlangen canal ones. It came out very greenish, but there's something about this screwed up colors that I like a lot. I'd almost say it's got a retro feel to it, like those 70's photos, but in green instead of magenta. Anyway, it's the best image of Erlangen that I've taken so far.





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Cheap shot

© Joselito Briones

Just to show that I'm not above the occasional sky shot (esp. when I don't have anything else to show you), but then I'm sure you know that already.


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Yet another old building

© Joselito Briones

This one's right next to the Asian grocery where I buy Thai vegies.


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Beetle

© Joselito Briones

It's the color that caught my eye.


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An old building

© Joselito Briones

An old building by the city center, in Erlangen.


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Jens' Paintings on the wall

© Joselito Briones

I guess I'm just tired of having to lift them up whenever I vacuum the floor, else I've finally decided to end the procrastinating, I finally hang Jens' paintings on the wall, in the living room. Let's see if they stay there.

There's plenty more pictures and paintings to hang and place, you're welcome to do the hammering for us if you want.


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A reunion of some sort

©Eric Olivarez

Oi Jimbo, I thought I'd share this with you, an email from Eric, after he and Cyntch (also a dear old friend) visited my mom in Carmona:

"finally squeezed this one to my sked..and im glad i did it with cyntch around...it felt like we're back in lsei days when we used to hang out in ur crib, except this time it's a bigger, better and more modern haus u have i almost felt like im in a resort of sorts ...took us a while to pinpoint d precise location, haus # has changed from d original 049 to something like 111xx...

©Eric Olivarez

so many changes in the neighborhood and yet ur mom has managed to stay all the same, still very accomodating and nice to talk with, i dont remember talking to her with much substance as now it made me feel really mature (translation: matanda na) now...felt a lil disappointed that she turns out to be mildly allergic to photo shoot, hehehe! anyways, here are a few pics we took of her and ur haus...definitely not as good angles as u would have done but i hope u like it even just for the effort, lolz! pls say thanks to ur mom again next time u talk...."

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Isn't he just the greatest? He's the one in green polo shirt, Cyntch is the one in white t-shirt, and the one in "USA" t-shirt is my eldest brother, Kuya Toto, and that's our house in Carmona, in the bottom picture.





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More from the recent B/W batch

© Joselito Briones

I like the way that the tones came out on this one.


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