Alejandro Chaskielberg - The High Tide

I just came across another helpful website featuring the work of lots of different photographers and artists (www.yossimilo.com), and as I was looking through them all I saw Alejandro Chaskielberg's series The High Tide, and liked it so much I thought I'd post it here straight away.

Here is a quote from the press release, explaining the series:

Interested in the relationship between people and their environment, Alejandro Chaskielberg has lived in the Paraná River Delta region in Argentina periodically since 2007. While there, he observes the daily routines of the local islanders: fishing, boating, and farming. Drawing from his background in film, the artist carefully recreates scenes from his observations and photographs them at night. The light sources used to illuminate the images are moonlight, flashlights, strobes and lanterns, casting them in eerie and surreal light of unnatural colors.
Chaskielberg’s project, The High Tide, depicts life in the remote community of the Delta, where the river tides determine the activities and movements of its inhabitants. Chaskielberg breaks with the tradition of documentary photography by casting real people in imagined situations based on their own lives. In his photographs, everyday reality is transformed into a dreamlike world where perceptions of color, light and space are challenged.

Smacky Races - Birmingham Blitz Dames vs Hot Wheel Roller Derby

Here are the photos from the BBD vs HWRD bout. The Blitz Dames won and it was an awesome bout.

Smacky Races - B-Team Bout

The next load of photos I've had for a while but haven't posted is from another double roller derby bout. The first one was a mixed b-team bout in which my sister skated and the other one was between Birmingham Blitz Dames and Hot Wheel Roller Derby. I'll do a separate post for each bout.

The Bluetones at Napton Festival

So it seems that I haven't done a post in over a month which is crazy because I actually have lots to post, for a change. First I'll post photos I took when we went to Napton Festival to see The Bluetones on 9th July.

 

 

These are my favourites, but there are plenty more on my Flickr: click here

The Power of the Crop

Much earlier this year, before me and my BFF (my mom) went to the Chinese New Year festivities, I took this photo of The Electric cinema because I was using up the rest of a 400 ISO film and I liked the look of the street.

Now I do quite like this photo but after all this time I just decided to edit it and I figured I'd make the most of those people walking along the bottom:

And I like this version much more. I also decided to do the same with the top of the photo, like so:

So not a particularly interesting post but I just wanted to put these photos on my blog because I rather like them.