Two Sydney Ferries "First Fleet" catamarans waiting for a berth at Circular Quay

Here's my new old friend

Claudia Rose

dancing as friends jam on old

songs after her recent performance

at Kulak's Woodshed

in North Hollywood

with the Bilgewater Brothers.

She & I are kindred souls,

both drawn like Hollywood magnets

to the spirit of the jazz age. She's

a young woman

with an old soul

and an amazing singing voice-

haunting, enchanting.

I love this photo

because it captures her spirit -

the happy way she floats and

dances through life. She is

an exultant spirit.

Ran into a guy last night

at a club in Sierra Madre

where I was performing -

and i won't quote him exactly

as it's too vulgar even for me -

but he informed me that

these photos of

Claudia Rose

excited him in a big way.

Dedicada a raul gonza|ez, porque sé que le gustan tanto las vespas como las bicis. ¡A ver si vemos algo más de lo que le sacas a tu Rokkor! ;)

Dedicated to raul gonza|ez, because I know he likes both vespas and bicycles. How nice would it be to see more of the pictures you take out of your Rokkor! ;)

Praktica BMS

Prakticar 28mm 1:2.8

Fomapan Action 400, ISO 400/27º

[explored on Jun 8th 2012] Many thanks everyone! :)

Northbound train leaving Sheppard station in Toronto

When I have my Voigtländer Vito with me and I wear this T-shirt, the music in my head urges me to make self-portraits...

Happy weekend everyone! :)

Cuando llevo mi Voigtländer Vito conmigo y llevo puesta esta camiseta, la música que suena en mi cabeza me obliga a hacerme autoretratos...

¡Feliz fin de semana! :)

Voigtländer Vito I

Voigtländer Skopar 50mm 1:3.5

Kodak Portra 400, ISO 400/27º

Three windows, three reflections.

Arrrived into Birmingham early to be greeted by this fire near to the City Centre. No one hurt thankfully.

1983 Honda Civic 1300 w/stock 4speed

This car is so much more comfortable now with the '98 civic seats we swapped in.

Update 12/12: now has a 1500 engine and a 5 speed :D

painted by a local bicycle guru! very cool work, even cooler dude!

thanks Sulaiman!

Sulaiman owns and runs reboundcentre here in Singapore

Central Station Sydney

Not the fastest or most comfortable way to get around Hong Kong, but the historic trams are really cool

Taken from the car, with a cameraphone. The quality is poor, but that's not really the point.

The earrings shown in these 4 pics were made by the sweet, talented "Gita Rau"....this pair is called "Cone Spiral" & she makes them under the name ~Beguiled~...here is a link to her stream

www.flickr.com/photos/gitarau/

While everyone's rushing home on a Tuesday night, I'm here bs-ing around snapping pics of them mid-commute, I never really stopped to look around GCT and I must say it's really a marvel of modern construction.

Painted on my iPhone 3g using Vellum, SBM, TypeDrawing, NPtR, Brushes, Photo fx; Copyright © 2010 Matthew Seydel Connors.

Took this vertical perspective from the Chong Nonsi BTS station about a year ago. I've been going through all of my files and importing RAW images into Lightroom 3 and from time to time run across one that is interesting in some way. I thought this one had a nice perspective to it and figured I'd share.

I had often wondered why they, the government people, were building such a long catwalk down this stretch of road. I got the answer not too long ago. It was for that special bus line that gets its very own dedicated lane running down Thanon Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra. Jeez, that sure narrowed that big ass road down to traffic jam size. IMHO... what a screw up. I guess they couldn't add another train that direction, so the bus was the next logical choice. I hope it helps some commuters out who can't afford to take cars cause it will likely create a bunch of new ones who no longer want the hassle of added traffic down their old beat, or maybe that was the point.

Pear County Chopper Trike creeps into Henry Ford Goes Surfing, with Bounce For Glory,

(with orange pennant flag waving above) pausing behind, waiting to sprint past in the Ventura KSR road race segment. Bounce For Glory lapped the field again, repeating 2006's victorious road segment. Remember: These are people-powered machines!!

Photo by Barefootsnowgoddess

here's a closeup of how the front end is lowered.... nuts are covered with "nut caps" that i made on my home lathe.

Sometimes I get this situation when I need to decide if I get the crowded bus or I wait a bit more.

Lotta Whatta Notta: Best viewed LARGE Please do not copy, transmit or use this image without first obtaining express written permission from me.

Knowledge is power.

The Netherlands

I was in India for about 11 days in early July, and tried my best to capture the power of monsoons in India. Initially, I just wanted to take pictures of rain, but then I switched my gears, and took all kinds of pictures. What you will see is the effect of monsoon everywhere - the lush wild greenery, wet streets, and a sense of relief from Indian summer, and maybe, smile on everyone's face.

School kids on rickshaw early morning in July. Life of a rickshaw wallah is very tough, but hopefully, monsoons gives him some respite.

I will take months to build my series, mostly on flickr, and selected ones on my blog.

The nice thing about the Ideal 250/3 is that it can take pictures on medium format film (type 120) if you put a roll film back in place of the normal plate holders. Finding a roll film back that would fit was kind of a problem, though, since the Ideal uses a very non-standard snap-in system. I finally found one on our last visit to Vienna, but it needed some little modifications to make it really light-tight (after having ruined two rolls almost completely, by the way).

For the first roll (almost) without light leaks, I couldn't resist running a roll of my beloved Velvia 50, since I wanted to see how does holding a 6x9 color slide in your hands feel like...

Happy Fence Friday and happy weekend everyone! :)

~ ~ o ~ ~

Lo interesante de mi nueva cámara Ideal 250/3 es que también puede tomar fotos en película de formato medio si se utiliza un adaptador para película de tipo 120 en lugar de los soportes para placas fotográficas. Encontrar un adaptador compatible no fue nada fácil, porque la Ideal utiliza un sistema muy muy inusual. Finalmente encontré un adaptador durante nuestra última visita a Viena, pero tuve que hacerle unas cuantas chapuzasmodificaciones para que no entrara luz (después de haber echado a perder dos rollos de película casi por completo, por cierto).

Para mi primer rollo de película sin (apenas) entradas de luz no pude resistir la tentación de utilizar mi querida Velvia 50, porque quería ver qué se siente al tener en tus manos una diapositiva de 6x9...

¡Feliz Viernes Vallero y buen fin de semana! :)

(Ideal 250/3, Fujichrome Velvia 50, ISO 50/18°)

This photo won me first place in the University of Tampa International Photography Competition.

Esta foto me gano el primer lugar en el concurso de Fotografia Internacional de la Universidad de Tampa.

Clouds reflecting early morning sunlight

Jeepney in Manila

Dublin, Ireland.

In a passageway on the Underground.

This was on one of the coldest days of the 2008-2009 winter. No problem! I just took my normal "Winter Commute" clothes, and added an under-layer. Normal temps this time of year are just above freezing, so it's not too much of a stretch to dress for several degrees below freezing. (Temp was 23°F / -5°C.) Once out of our driveway and the residential street, the streets were mostly clear. Icy in patches, though!

A Ryanair Stansted - Connacht flight passes by.

View On Black

Title inspired by Adele's "Chasing Pavements"

choices, choices, Friday night at Mad Cafe