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Courtyard, Sofia, Bulgaria: Two Views, New Viewpoint
Two views of a courtyard set between 1930s apartment houses, Sofia, Bulgaria, August, 2014. The photo above was taken through the partially open sliding glass windows of a small balcony; the one...
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Colorful Interlude: Tarlebaşi Quarter, Istanbul
Street scene, Tarlebaşi Quarter, Istanbul. 2012. Fuji X100. Click on image to enlarge.
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Reflective Interlude: A Saturday Afternoon, Beşiktaş, Istanbul
Saturday afternoon activities, ethereal and mundane, side street, Beşiktaş quarter, Istanbul, 2011. Fuji X100. Click on image to enlarge.
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Monochrome Interlude: Night, Side Street, Şişhane Quarter, Istanbul
Mosque of Şaban Kaptan, side street, Şişhane quarter, Istanbul, 2012. Fuji X100. Click on image to enlarge.
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Literary Interlude: Graffito, Sofia, Bulgaria
Graffito on telephone junction box, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2014. Fuji X100. Click on image to enlarge.
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Corn Stalks, a Plateau, the Black Sea, and the Horizon
Corn stalks, plateau, Black Sea, and horizon; village of Kamen Bryag, Bulgaria; 2014. Fuji X100 with +1.4 tele-adaptor. Click on image to enlarge Fertile soil, a flat plateau, and a shoreline of steep...
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Relics of an Agricultural Village: Abandoned Bench and Collapsed Shed
Roadside bench, village of Kamen Bryag, Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, 2014. Fuji X100 with +1.4 tele adapter. Click on image to enlarge. Decades ago, when the village of Kamen Bryag was still an...
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Autumn Blossoms, Rural Roads, Shallow Focus
Kamen Bryag, Bulgarian Black Sea coast, 2014. Fuji X100 with +1.4 tele-adapter. Click on image to enlarge. A road left unpaved in a village in the process of gentrification … The photo above is one of...
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Shabla, Bulgaria: Seawards and Kitchenwards
The infrastructure of local, coastal fisheries: Boats, boat-launching rails, and fishermen’s shanties, Shabla Lighthouse, Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, 2014. Fuji X100, +1.4x, “50mm” tele-converter. Click...
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The Golden Horn: Shifting Axes of Urban Trajectories and Intentionality, and...
The Golden Horn from the boat dock at Kasımpaşa. In the background, the Mosque of Sultan Selim Yavuz, 2012. Fuji X100. Click on image to enlarge. The Golden Horn: (Halıç in Turkish), a long, narrow...
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A Tentative Return, A Long-Vanished Night-Spot, and Monuments Spatial Rather...
The probable site of a 1930s nightspot, Cafe Keva, owned and run by a popular Romani singer of the time, Sofia, Bularia, 2014. Fuji X100. Click on image to enlarge. A Tentative Return After a six-month...
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Balat, Golden Horn, Istanbul: Urban Details, Changing Populations, Afternoon...
Late afternoon light. Balat, Istanbul, December, 2011. Fuji X100. Click on image to enlarge. The birthday last month of a friend with a sharp and compassionate eye for the poignancy and ironies of...
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Or Ahayim Hospital, Balat, Istanbul: A Shining Light, Discretion/Anonymity,...
Main entrance section of the original building of Or Ahayim Hastanesi, the Balat Jewish Hospital, Balat, Istanbul, 2011. Inscriptions — both extent and obliterated — on its facade give insight into...
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Istanbul Architectural Miscellany: One Ridge, Two Valleys, Three Geographic...
Street View, Kurtuluş, Istanbul, 2012. Fuji X100. Click to enlarge Three photos of three structures linked by geography and revealing facets of the dynamics that have shaped Istanbul: The row of...
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Multiple Faces of Istanbul: Mannequins, Metaphor, and Saturday’s Bomb Attack
Mannequins in Black and White, Istanbul, 2013. Fuji X100. The image above is from a series of photos treating mannequins in Istanbul, their manufacture and display, part of an in-depth look into the...
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“Psych-o-delic!:” Better Late than Never (I guess)
Mural, warehouse, Poduyane quarter, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2016. FujiX100 w/1.4x tele converter. Click on image to enlarge. I have no nostalgia for the 1960’s. I was not a hippy. I liked jazz and R&B;...
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Sofia, Bulgaria: Urban Insights, Decorative and Sobering
Mural, housing block, Hadji Dimitar quarter, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2016. Fuji X100 with +1.4 lens adaptor. Click on image to enlarge. Further to a previous entry on the presence (and, to me, mystery) of a...
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Sofia, Bulgaria: More Accidental Aesthetics of Apartment Insulation +...
Hadji Dimitar quarter, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2016. Fuji X100 w/-1.4 lens converter. Click on image to enlarge. More Accidental Aesthetics of Insulation Above and below: Further to my last post, three more...
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Mondrian Meets Dorian Gray: Patterns of Neoliberal Disregard + Thoughts on...
Hadji Dimitar quarter, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2016. Fuji X100 w/+1.4 lens converter. Click to enlarge. Mondrian meets Dorian Gray: Patterns of neo-liberal disregard The photos above and below not only...
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Springtimes Past: Istanbul, From Dolapdere to Kurtuluş
Kurtuluş, Istanbul, 2013. Fuji X100. Click to enlarge. In the midst of unseasonably cold and gray weather, an image from a springtime past: greenery bursting forth from concrete, and laundry emerging...
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