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April 9, 2013
LA CIENEGA / Daily Photograph # 1,899
iPhone4s / PhotoForge2
Street photography and the iPhone, to me, seem made for each other. It can be nerve wracking to try framing a scene quickly and accurately without a viewfinder, yet shooting from the hip compensates by providing the thrill of the added need for coordination between eye and hand. Besides, I like cropping after the fact, and see it as an important tool in my arsenal.
There are so many ways to make a photograph. The validity of any approach is to be found in the finished image, not in the method used to produce it.
The only “right” camera is the camera that is right for the user. The iPhone is just one of the phones that is right for me. But, because it's virtually always at hand, it is most often the right camera for me.
Coincidentally, it is also a darkroom, a library, a dictionary…
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April 9, 2013
Golden River Treasure
The Golden River (Kali Mas in Javanese) is a traditional seaport located at Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. During the times of the Dutch East Indies, this river was heavily utilized as a goods transport route. Pacing canoes and small boats transporting goods and commodities fish catch of fishermen and large trade ships unload commodity goods at the port of Tanjung Perak, where smaller ships take over and distribute the trade goods to inland.
Until now catching and fish processing activities still can be seen in the area along the river although on a small scale. Whereas institution related to Kalimas public Port management, seems to no longer care at continuity that have age traditional port life hundreds of this year. The many dirt cause water quality and environmental along the length of Kalimas is not balmy like formerly.
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