The endless summer

Even though summer is pretty much over for another year, I’m going to try to keep the spirit alive by posting a few ’summery’ images; ones that typify that carefree summertime vibe to me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against autumn (in fact I usually quite enjoy it) I’m just not too sure I’m ready for it yet.

A while ago my brother showed me an old surf film called ‘The Endless Summer’, where a few surfers travel the globe following the sun. They spent summer up in the northern hemisphere and winter down in the southern hemisphere, and so they essentially lived in an endless summer for a year. It was a cool film and a cool idea, it’d be nice to try something like that one day.

So I’m taking a leaf out of their book; here is my own attempt at keeping the summer alive a little longer. These frames were shot a month or two ago when I was chilling in the park with my mate Adam, enjoying some beer and sunshine:

So… lets try to keep the spirit of summer alive for as long as we can, but when autumn does eventually come, don’t be sad, embrace it. Autumn can be a pretty magical time of year, so cheer up everyone, I can see some real good times ahead.

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On a side note, to speed things up a bit and break the posts down into more digestible chunks, I’ve now limited the amount of posts on each page to 5. This means my earlier posts can now be found either by clicking on the ‘archives’ section on the top right of the blog or the ‘next page’ link at the very bottom of the blog. Hope that makes sense.

peace,

Andras.

shot of the day…

Hello, I’ve been a bit busy recently so only a short post today, in fact it’s not even so much a ’shot of the day’ as an update to the hungarian holiday post. There was one rogue roll of 120 film that I forgot to send to the lab for developing with the other rolls from hungary, it only turned up some time later, and due to my laziness and current financial state I’ve only just gotten round to developing it.

Anyway, there were a couple of shots of my grandma that I am pretty happy with, and here is one of them. Unposed, as she was, whilst we were chatting away and I shot off a few frames:

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On a completely different note, I’d like to say a big thanks to Jamie Stoker for giving me a shout-out on his blog, he’s a real cool dude and a great photographer so make sure you check out his stuff: http://jamiestoker.wordpress.com .

Tis all for today I’m afraid, but do not despair (as if you would!) I shall be back soon.

peace,

Andras

And now for a little music…

A while ago I went down to Bristol to visit some friends of mine who were still living there. I used to live in Bristol for three years and since moving back the big old London, I’ve really missed the place so it was great to be back for a weekend. I stayed at my mate Mostafa’s house who happens to be a musician, and a pretty good one at that. At one point when we were chilling trying to decide what to do with the day, he picked up his guitar and started playing, so I picked up my bronica and started snapping; turned into a bit of an impromptu shoot.

focus is over-rated

a little out of date, but organised

^ that’s where the magic happens

You can check out Mostafa’s music at http://www.myspace.com/skalectricity .

That’s all for now, I’m off to make myself a real strong coffee and get down to some work.

peace out,

Andras

A week in Hungary…

A couple of weeks ago I went on holiday to Hungary. It was baking hot most days and i sat about chating, chilling, eating and drinking with my grandparents and cousins, having a great time. It was great just to get out of London for a bit and do things differently for a few days. I spent a couple of days in Budapest catching up with my cousins, and then i spent most of my time in the countryside just north of Budapest on an really long island in the Danube where my granparents and a lot of my family have wooden cabins where they spend some of their summer. The cabins are surrounded by loose woodland and it was great to be somewhere so different to the hustle and bustle of the city for a bit.

I didn’t end up taking as many photo’s as I thought I would; I went prepared with 12 rolls of 120 film, 5 rolls of 35mm film and lots of memory for my digital. But most of the time i was happy to just chill and put the camera down.

A lot of the shots I took were just little studies of the space/place i was in, i was trying to capture the impressions that i felt:

         

at my grandparents flat in Budapest

out in the countryside

grandparents cabin

decided to go for a bike ride one day

       

I miss being out there already!

recently I’ve been doing quite a bit of scanning of a lot of my fairly recent work so hopefully I should start getting some of that stuff up here soonish. Until then, take care, I’m off

peace,

Andras

Shot of the day… power (title)

power is a strange thing:

thats all for today folks, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.

peace,

Andras

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