Wine is fine but whiskey is quicker!

Pressure. Falling temperatures, train delays, gangsta wannabe’s in the subway, broken mp3 player. News in the Tv. That weird smell in the morning air when you leave for school and you know that you showered. Chinese people from 8th avenue station invading the train like it’s the only train that day and again chinese people on the phone talking next to your ear in a way you talk to somebody meters away in the kitchen while being in the toilet. Of course, I’m a tolerant guy, who isn’t tolerant nowadays.

Projects, papers, research essays, assignements, usually due last week, because so. Crazy, but well everyone around is too. That very specific moment when you realize that Fight for Your Right to Party ain’t the best song to listen to at 8 AM in the subway. Hot coffee in a cold windy day. Manhattan skyline. People on the streets rushing in every possible direction with their newspapers and blueberries. Great cold distance. Crystal clear air. Razor sharp stripes of light fighting the stripes of shadows. Loud noise and music from the nearby cars. Performing artists in the subway. Cops and their use of light signals. Red lights, green lights. New York minute.

It’s one thing to be a part of it and just not realise the dynamics behind it, being a prey, and its another thing to get a thrill of being a hunter while you try to capture that desired frame. I think it’s that thrill.

Gee I think I suck at photography
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So yea…I really hate when cameras stand in my way to take some pictures. I like it comfy, I press the button and I got a picture, pretty simple… Since I couldn’t stand the “waiting and not shooting” state of mind, I borrowed a little something from Tom and first thing in the morning was to hit the city and see what it’s made of. I was pretty in “need”.

You can call me spoiled, but I like good cameras and this one was supposed to be a revolution back then in the old days of 2002-3, unfortunately this camera is hell of a different story. Simple stuff first, where do I turn the camera on, oh here it is, in the bottom, ( like it’s so obvious that the most convienient place to put the switch to turn on the camera is on the bottom in the back of it, pure man of genius designed this, I salute you!) ok so I click, 1 second, camera is on, what a ferrari that camera is, I almost thought it’s broken.

Let’s head on, where do I turn the aperture mode, ok two buttons at the same time!! (thanks tom for tutoring), scroll the wheel, gee, change the iso, same story, change the af mode, same story. Of course you need to stop and concentrate to do this. What a pain. I will not talk about the menu system because, well it’s a joke, it looks just like a dos system, it operates like one and it truly sucks ass. Since I don’t like to be bothered by things like that I decided to just turn the mode called “shoot and forget” and head to the city.

And I gotta say I really like the files from it, saturated, pretty much detailed like I want them to be even though the weather was almost black n white. What else, I like the shutter sound a lot, totally way much more cooler than the one made by 20-30-5ds to name a few. This one actually brings you back to 1966 Antonioni’s Blow Up and it really sounds like you got film inside. What a neat feature. Anyway, too bad the battery died so fast, one battery died after exactly 122 raw shots, the second one after another 120something. Don’t bother taking more than 4 gb of card space, you won’t be able to use it anyway. Such a shame.

I don’t usually do that but there is an awesome movie playing right now, total must see piece, just came back from it and it is one of the best movies that I’ve seen this year.

It’s kinda hard to live without a camera, suddenly you got that urge to shoot, you know what I mean, like when you cross the street and you pin point frames around you, all tend to happen in the same time and in slow mo, exactly like TV commercials.

Especially now, when it’s getting darker every day and light gives you those awesome long shadows. It’s crazy cause when it’s a sunny day, I usually wear my -2EV black glasses, so that, not only the image is polarized already, but also looks like a live preview of my lightroom postprocess and it’s like wooooow, I stop and stare. I probably look like i’m high on lsd or something. Too bad I can’t see myself.

Anyway, why in the name of God, when I’ve had my camera in sight, always ready, I didn’t use it that often? and why now, when I dont have it you punish me with creativity? what’s that all about?

It’s not to say that I’ve gone epileptic or something, it’s not THAT bad, however it’s bad enough for me to write about this, AND it’s bad enough to search for old images.