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atelier ying, hk
The stacked, terraced dilapidated flats of Mongkok are beautiful. I'm vaguely reminded of Gustav Mahler, who I am told composed his music in slabs, although compared to old houses in China these Mongkok apartment buildings have an excess of glass (but too little lighting that's visible from the street) that's part of what makes them so wonderful. I prefer the older 3-4 story buildings with fluorescent lighting. The visual stacked effect of the building allows for this camera design to be made up of many cameras in a similar stacked disorganized fashion.
Camera features:
- exterior modeled on a building on Shanghai Street.
- rooftop haiku-styled camera sight (versus a vf) made with bamboo, netting, and cellphone towers.
- a central haiku-styled gap viewfinder
- levels for SLR, rangefinder and pinhole units which offset the lightweight plastic housing materials used. Windows open for the lens. Paper fragments and tape is used for filters and hoods.
- strap and carrying handle made of telephone cable wire and bamboo-simulated scaffolding.
- hvac units contain focusing mechanisms for the cameras as well as internal viewfinders to selected floors where one can peer inside to see various single-room occupancy units.
- clotheslines, garments, plants are provided with rubber cement to decorate the exterior as you please.
- both incandescent and fluorescent units for lighting the ground floor bakeries and upper tenement housing floors.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
Captured with: Fujifilm X-T3 + Canon 50/1.4 LTM
Why another Canon 50mm LTM lens? Of course, I always find justifications for GAS. For one, a chromed brass built Serenar 50/1.9 is a perfect match for a chromed brass built VI-L. Canon switched to aluminum builds for later "black and white" LTM lenses in mid 1950s. The second reason is I would love to have a collapsible lens on this camera - just imagine how it looks when collapsed. However, this was where I failed big time - the lens WILL NOT fully collapse on VI, while it will on older Canon rangefinders such as IV. The lens works perfectly fine and it is just such a pity that I can't collapse it LOL.
One learns quite quickly which subjects are amenable to a more direct approach when doing street photography. Sometimes the signs are subtle, and you have a "hunch" of whom to approach, and who is best photographed more surrepticiously, but ethically and legally.
When one sees a woman sporting a rainbow Mohawk, bubbling exuberance like a volcano, and unabashed confidence like a Navy Seal, it doesn't take much sophisticated analysis to know you got a "live one".
This young woman was a hoot. When she saw me with the camera she started "performing". This was one of the poses she struck amldst lots of laughter and checking in with me as to whether this or that pose was "hot".
Events like Pride and protests are fast paced photograph rich environments. In a way that is good, but upon meeting someone like this marvelous young woman, I would have appreciated the option of slowing down and just speaking with her and basking in her radiant disposition.
I do give out my cards, and invite folks to contact me and I will send them the image files. I'm running about 30% requests, which I think is pretty good.
Went for a stroll with the kids today, and this friendly calf decided to give us a slobbery kiss. It obviously has good taste - it seems to like Canon cameras ;-)