Mar 13, 2008, 06:14
(not sure whether this post should go into "snapshots"..? feel free to move if you feel it would be appropriate)
Most of you will know how I am always trying to somehow capture what I see here in China, and I have probably
mentioned that I often find it excruciatingly difficult to reflect the reality. It is hard to capture in pictures or put into words.
Usually I go for lots of detail, and hope that alltogether they will come together like a jigsaw puzzle to form a picture of the environment in the viewers mind. Partially this strategy is due to my photographic preferences of course. I usually am a miserable failure at filling a wider frame and can't seem to compose my pictures.
Now I tried something different, shooting from the window of a tricycle ( a la Don S ) I was riding back home.
Our campus is located in a relatively new district of the city, we are surrounded by construction an grassland, and settling round here is mostly industry and several new campuses.
Residential buildings (condos) rise up all over the place, often decorated with pseudo-English advertisements and built in a funny mixture of styles.
I was just following an instantaneous idea when I was shooting these, so there can be no claim to quality,
but I would like to know what you see in them....
I really welcome any comments!
Greetins, Uli
1) window decoration in the tricycle
2) gate to a campus, street sweepers resting
3) vendors and students outside campus gate
4) common transportation: motorised tricycle. modern architecture under construction in the background
5) construction sites are always lined with walls, not with the fences we know.
6) modern building in middle of wasteland!
Most of you will know how I am always trying to somehow capture what I see here in China, and I have probably
mentioned that I often find it excruciatingly difficult to reflect the reality. It is hard to capture in pictures or put into words.
Usually I go for lots of detail, and hope that alltogether they will come together like a jigsaw puzzle to form a picture of the environment in the viewers mind. Partially this strategy is due to my photographic preferences of course. I usually am a miserable failure at filling a wider frame and can't seem to compose my pictures.
Now I tried something different, shooting from the window of a tricycle ( a la Don S ) I was riding back home.
Our campus is located in a relatively new district of the city, we are surrounded by construction an grassland, and settling round here is mostly industry and several new campuses.
Residential buildings (condos) rise up all over the place, often decorated with pseudo-English advertisements and built in a funny mixture of styles.
I was just following an instantaneous idea when I was shooting these, so there can be no claim to quality,
but I would like to know what you see in them....
I really welcome any comments!
Greetins, Uli
1) window decoration in the tricycle
2) gate to a campus, street sweepers resting
3) vendors and students outside campus gate
4) common transportation: motorised tricycle. modern architecture under construction in the background
5) construction sites are always lined with walls, not with the fences we know.
6) modern building in middle of wasteland!