My friends at Vektorrausch have started to programm me a separate site for “A Stranger’s Wish” and first results were tested today. Apart from 1mio things still missing, I already find it quite impressive! The countries, which I have already visited, will be shown in cyan. Once you click on them you will see a zooming effect and the visited cities will appear. Going into those you will find the portraits. And the stories.
Still struggeling with some of the intendet additional information. I will be changing my plans because I now saw a site that unfortunately is quite similar … On top of it all from a pretty famous photographer … It is all similar on the net, if you use the same features. But … I will try to find another way nontheless. It really bothers me!
HELSINKI
Back from Helsinki with a bag full of impressions, postcards and portraits. It was absolutely amazing and I am looking forward to get everything ready to show. It will take me some time I fear, until I have it all ready, so I start with a little teaser and will come back from time to time to put more on here. My priority now lies in the portraits which I want to have ready soon so I can sent them back to my “collaborateurs”.
More about Finland / Helsinki …
There I was taking pictures at the railwaystation.
There it was, the wall of light.
I really did go crazy with my point&shoot – it did not manage to focus on the people quickly passing in front of the wall at different distances – so it mainly just went dead. I did try for quite some time and then decided to return the next day with my D200. I did. I was there. But the wall was gone. Another instance of the life lesson: do not rely on second chances – you might not get one.
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SLOVENIA
Just returned from Slovenia and had a quick glance at the portraits I did there with the help of Iztok Boncina. Not only did he do all of the translations but he also guided me around and was 100% there for every issue and at every time. As I am slowly beginning to understand the nature and subtle complexity of what is laying ahead of me I can truly say that I would not have gotten very far in the two days of shooting in Slovenia if it had not been for Iztok’s help. Great guy – thanks again Iztok!
Nonetheless, looking at what I have now, I see that the road ahead of me is a long one. A VERY long one. And that I might have to visit these people in Slovenia again to take another go at the portraits.
As I am still waiting for my new passport and thus confined to countries I can travel to with my simple ID-card, I see daylight getting dimmer and temperatures falling. We had actually snow in southern Germany over the weekend. A unusually early start of a winter that did not even show up last year. The hours in which the photos I want to take (outside) can actually be taken – and please withouth the very thick jackets that hide so much and lets everybody look alike – these hours are getting fewer and fewer.
So I am a little shaky about Helsinki, my next stop. Maybe I will not be bringing home anything suitable.
(By the way, even if I am giving an insight into the photos I took in Slovenia, it is not certain at all where the final edit will take me).
I encountered a number of issues along the path now. Issues that come up when one is on one’s way. And not before. So I will spent the winter pause trying to work them out. Maybe I will have to start all over again with the photos next year … maybe not. Maybe a little. We will see. It is organic, even being a conceptual work, because I have a number of parameters in, which are out of my reach (and it is supposed to be this way). I just feel I have to tighten things up on the parameters that are within my reach.
I will have to think about it. But first now: Helsinki!
