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The last seaside trip

The last seaside trip always begins happy.












and ends melancholic.
until the next summer.

but alas!the kettle is whistlin' and in a minute tea leaves will start their dance in a transcluent, steaming glass.


This is also hapiness,but of another kind.

Pagliacci

this fellow asked me to take his picture around Karlibah street.

If you can trade your firstborn for a full dinner at Cordelia - do so.

who are you and what do you want from me?

unconditional affection

is much more important for the person who feels it then for the target.

to lazy to write a title

Been shooting quite a lot but developed none.patience.

Using the leica is inspiring.It has the best VF\RF possible and is very intuitive -it is much more intuitive to me then an automatic SLR(which I cant get used to) for example. I also found that different focal lenghts work better(for me)in different cities. Tel Aviv is a very 28-35 city while Haifa seemed more of a 50 - possibly even a short tele.

I just listened to a digitally remastered Brian Ferry "Boys and Girls" album after listening to a bad shape record - the record sounds way better with the crackle and occasional click.I am surprised every time anew. The Rega Planar was my best purchase after the leica in the last couple of years.

never develop film you arent familiar with sloppily

the girl with the cowboy hat stopped me half a mile down the street and asked the photo not to be printed in a newspaper(?)cause she doesnt want her parents to catch her smoking.


Or this is what you'll get! Delta 400(6 years expired in tetenal ultrafin)

intresting fact:

МАЛЕНЬКИЙ ВЕНСКИЙ ВАЛЬС - Федерико Гарсиа Лорка\Take This Waltz Leonard Cohen

Десять девушек едут Веной.
Плачет смерть на груди гуляки,
Есть там лес голубиных чучел
и заря в антикварном мраке.
Есть там залы, где сотни окон
и за ними деревьев купы...
О, возьми этот вальс,
этот вальс, закусивший губы.

Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women.
There's a shoulder where death comes to cry.
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows.
There's a tree where the doves go to die.
There's a piece that was torn from the morning,
and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost --
Ay, ay ay ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws.

Этот вальс, этот вальс,
полный смерти, мольбы и вина,
где шелками играет волна.

Я люблю, я люблю, я люблю,
я люблю тебя там, на луне,
и с увядшею книгой в окне,
и в укромном гнезде маргаритки,
и в том танце, что снится улитке...
Так порадуй теплом
этот вальс с перебитым крылом.

I want you, I want you, I want you
on a chair with a dead magazine.
In the cave at the tip of the lily,
in some hallway where love's never been.
On a bed where the moon has been sweating,
in a cry filled with footsteps and sand --
Ay, ay ay ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take its broken waist in your hand.

Есть три зеркала в венском зале,
где губам твоим вторят дали.
Смерть играет на клавесине
и танцующих красит синим
и на слезы наводит глянец.
А над городом - тени пьяниц...
О, возьми этот вальс,
на руках умирающий танец.


There's a concert hall in Vienna
where your mouth had a thousand reviews.
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking,
they've been sentenced to death by the blues.
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
with a garland of freshly cut tears?
Ay, ay ay ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take this waltz, it's been dying for years.

Я люблю, я люблю, мое чудо,
я люблю тебя вечно и всюду,
и на крыше, где детство мне снится,
и когда ты поднимешь ресницы,
а за ними, в серебряной стуже, -
старой Венгрии звезды пастушьи
и ягнята и лилии льда...
О, возьми этот вальс,
этот вальс "Я люблю навсегда".

There's an attic where children are playing,
where I've got to lie down with you soon,
in a dream of Hungarian lanterns,
in the mist of some sweet afternoon.
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow,
all your sheep and your lilies of snow --
Ay, ay ay ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
with its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

Я с тобой танцевать буду в Вене
в карнавальном наряде реки,
в домино из воды и тени.
Как темны мои тростники!..
А потом прощальною данью
я оставлю эхо дыханья
в фотографиях и флюгерах,
поцелуи сложу перед дверью -
и волнам твоей поступи вверю
ленты вальса, скрипку и прах.

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
to the pools that you lift on your wrist --
O my love, O my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
it's yours now. It's all that there is.

The Move is complete

I completed my move to Rishon Le Zion. I love it there. I should have internet access at home within a week and then I will post new stuff(and do it more regularly).

I love the move.I met some wonderfull,charming people (some old,some new,some borrowed,some blue),one of which is especially wonderfull,which will be proven by pictures when I have the time and energy.

I read some books,watched some films but all of that is nonimportant.
I am as close to happy as I ever was.

בוא למילואים יא בן זונה

This 19-20 year old girl is an officer in charge of reserve duty.

of religion and commerce

Oberon waits for Titania to call

very early in the morning tmax400@1600

3 for enstrangement 1 for longing

The Dresden Dolls - Sing

There is this thing that's like touching exept you dont touch
Back in the day it just went without saying at all
All the world's history gradually dying in shock
There is this thing it's like talking except you don't talk
You sing
You sing

Sing for the bartender sing for the janitor sing
Sing for the cameras sing for the animals sing
Sing for the children shooting the children sing
Sing for the teachers who told you that you couldn't sing
Just sing

There is thing keeping everyone's lungs and lips locked
It is called fear and it's seeing a great renaissance
After the show you can not sing wherever you want
But for now let's just pretend we're all gonna get bombed
So sing

Sing cause its obvious sing for the astronauts sing
Sing for the president sing for the terrorists sing
Sing for the soccer team sing for the janjaweed sing
Sing for the kid with the phone who refuses to sing
Just sing

Life is no cabaret
We don't care what you say
We're inviting you anyway
You motherfuckers you'll sing someday...
You motherfuckers you'll sing someday...
You motherfuckers you'll sing someday...

Canon 7 is here!

I got the Canon 7 from Peterc from RFF. He was kind and threw in a 1962 jupiter 8 with a japanese 1A filter and a roll of maco 64c film and thats after giving me a great deal on the camera itself.
Tom_F77 has sent me a canon 50/1.8 and I am in the market for a cheap 35(canon 35/2.8 or CV 35/2.5 - wanna sell me one?)

I am again - "with rangefinder".

Things that calm me down

My "Hemingway" tree. It is of african origins.
praktica mtl2+50/1.8pentacon auto.cheap color 100 or 200,horrible minilab scan
Sky from Demian Fitzig's appartment
canonet 17 QL GIII - fuji press 800 I think

Prague Vista from one of the churches.I don't remember which(st. Nicolas?st. Vitus?).

Nikon fm2n,sigma 28/1.8,fuji x-tra 400

El Commendante

Aprendimos a quererte

desde la histórica altura

donde el sol de tu bravura

le puso un cerco a la muerte.

Aquí se queda la clara,

la entrañable transparencia,

de tu querida presencia

Comandante Che Guevara.

Tu mano gloriosa y fuerte

sobre la historia dispara

cuando todo Santa Clara

se despierta para verte.

Aquí se queda la clara,

la entrañable transparencia,

de tu querida presencia

Comandante Che Guevara.

Vienes quemando la brisa

con soles de primavera

para plantar la bandera

con la luz de tu sonrisa.

Aquí se queda la clara,

la entrañable transparencia,

de tu querida presencia

Comandante Che Guevara.

Tu amor revolucionario

te conduce a nueva empresa

donde esperan la firmeza

de tu brazo libertario.

Aquí se queda la clara,

la entrañable transparencia,

de tu querida presencia

Comandante Che Guevara.

Seguiremos adelante

como junto a ti seguimos

y con Fidel te decimos:

hasta siempre Comandante.

Aquí se queda la clara,

la entrañable transparencia,

de tu querida presencia

Comandante Che Guevara.

(Carlos Puebla, 1965)

canonet 17 GL QIII,fuji (press?)800 - wide open and slow shutter speed - a year ago or so

A flyer stuck in the bushes near the university(BGU) in Beer Sheva, Israel - hardly political - more likely to promote a night club.