Two shots that I took in 2015 shortly after my returning from Berlin. I went to Bucharest to pick up my bachelor license from the University and while doing this I visited the city where I lived for 4 years.

It was May-June and I met Crina, an old friend and colleague from the University. She studied ceramics and had her atelier and home in this eastern neighborhood, close to the exit on the highway to the Black Sea. I really should visit Bucharest more often, I think to myself now when because of a virus outbreak that went pandemic I cannot even go out for a walk in the park.

I took these two shots at a wide aperture, one with the focus on the poppies, the other with the focus on the buildings from the background, just because I didn't knew exactly which one would I like better. So here is a GIF with both of them.

Kodak Ektar, Pentax Spotmatic F, Bucharest, 2015

A nice surprise with this film, it aged beautifully. Actually just these 3 frames from a Fuji Superia 800 that I shot in 2016 and re-scanned a few weeks ago, transformed into something unexpected. I don't know exactly why, but at this point it doesn't even really matter, only if I would like to try and replicate the effect. Which I might want.

What happened is that the colors metamorphosed and the emulsion looks like burned from place to place, so the images are becoming dreamy and fairy-like-milky. Which is even more surprising since the days when I shot these images were by themselves different, either covered in a thick fog or nicely contoured by the mellow sun of autumn, but anyway both wrapped in mystery. So it's all a nice big coincidence, but so is the Universe.

Shot on Fuji Superia 800, Olympus Mju

Călimănești, Căciulata & Viscri, Romania, 2016

Cluj-Napoca
February 2020

Portra 400
Olympus OM2n