Working the files

Mike Johnson in his Sunday Morning Photographer column suggests revisiting your old negative files to find images that have previously gone unnoticed or to reinterpret old favourites. What better way to spend a Sunday before the football starts on Sky TV? Here are a few from this morning...





Uigar Man, Kashgar

Kashgar street scene

Stupa, Sikkim





Hindu Festival, Darjeeling

Hotel Daze

Just updated this series...

Very often our experience of new places is mediated through imposed 'frames': aircraft, train, bus and in this case hotel windows.

The hotel view may be beautiful or banal. Either way it illuminates something about the place in which we are staying and for good or bad creates a residual image of place that stays in our memory

have a look...

Dalai Lama Personality Test

It does not sound very promising but I've just tried it - and well, the results made me reflect on stuff, so maybe its worth a try.

http://www.perbang.dk/perbang.com.cms?aid=66

Schipka Pass

Out on a cold Glasgow Sunday. Going to photograph fans heading for the Celtic v Rangers football match. But visually quite uninteresting. Came across Schipka Pass a small passage that once linked Gallowgate to London Road.

Schipka Pass is on the site of an older track claimed to go back to medieval times It is now named after a battle in Bulgaria during the 1877 Turko-Russsian war. In the late 19th early 20th century it was home to East European immigrants.

In April 2004 the ‘market’ that is now housed in the Pass was raided by the Police for £140,000 of counterfeit software




Schipka Pass in the 19th Century.
Picture by Robert Eadie






Schipka Pass in 2005




















Eldorado is tonic wine favoured by working class males. Best consumed in groups, on the street early in the morning.