january 1976.
By the end of semester I didn't have a room. Beštara lost his nerve with the old man and just had a shouting match with him (partly to shake it off, partly because the guy was deaf) and he brought me my stuff and retold the whole story. I forgot the details, but it included a petty revenge, like stealing a couple of books and four coat hangers.
Of course he cancelled the room, so now I have no idea where I'll live next semester. I've let a flea out, if anyone needs a roommate or knows someone who does...
More photos, this time experimenting with long exposures, sometimes combined with side flash.
The snow was deep in january, we either left the škodilak in the street, or in the garage, as it was impossible to shovel the path between. Not that we weren't capable, it's that there was nowhere to put all that snow, we'd have to carry it too far. I think the car was in use, both dad and I knew how to drive on snow.
Specially this dry, crystal sugar snow, that you can't quite pile up, as the first wind evens the heaps.
This was shot from the hand, I just leaned on the wall for stability. Or maybe not - seeing where I stand, this was rather just legs well spread. The snow reflected enough light from those three bulbs (one was above my head, at the rear entrance).
(... 121 word...)
Not quite sure this was january, there should have been leaves on the trees in the main street. The shot is dirty because it was protected by glass. These tiny glass sheets are a miracle, they aren't much thicker than those for microscopes, and still I never saw one cracked. They were allegedly preserving the slides from dirt, and to flatten them, because the emulsion would shrink of grow with the humidity, it being gelatinous and hygroscopic. Too humid, it bulges, too dry, it bends inward. Now during a projection a somewhat humid slide may get warmed up and may budge the other way, and of course it will happen immediately after you refocused against its initial position, so you'd have to focus again.
The flattening betwen the glass worked fine, you focus one and they all come sharp, but it had another side effect - if, for whichever reason, the film was bent or curved, there would be Newton's rings - the interference lines in the places where light refracts through a thin layer of air between the glass and the film. In the club we called those „engagement shots“. Can happen with a negative, too - wherever emulsion is supposed to be flat against the glass, but isn't quite so.
Long term, the filth protection was countereffective. When I reshot these, I cleaned them with a simple aquarel brush, and those without glass came out much cleaner.
This shot I think I made from hand - I wasn't visiting the club much, so surely wouldn't go there just to borrow a tripod, and then this is korzo, there are no poles in the middle of it. An advertisement would have to be stood to the left or right, not in the middle, where I stood then.
Mentions: korzo, Milovan Sebešćen (Beštara), škodilak, in serbian
6-VIII-2022 - 31-X-2025