(If you are impatient, scroll down for pictures :)
As
many of my friends know, I have a great passion for film photography,
which is what I started with back in my university. I had fantastic
photography teachers who encouraged / kicked us into the darkroom to
experiment, try out different things, and I truly miss that.
I
only shot a few filmrolls when I lived in Israel - mainly because my
camera is an old, highly unreliable Cosina, and it destroyed at least
one or two films by jamming them - but I think some of these pictures
that survived are worth putting out here into the interwebs. This is all
on 35 mm b&w film (Kodak T-Max, of course).
And mind you, I want to build my own darkroom, just because of the prices of developing film in the shops...
These
pictures feature the old city of Akko, Akka or the Acre, depending on
whether you speak Arabic, Hebrew or English. The city operated as a
notorious prison city back in the 19th century, and a lot of the city
walls are from that era. Now it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site! Back in
the days you could enter the city either via the seagate or the
landgate; the landgate is still the main entrance to this walled,
secluded, curious old part of Akko. The wall also separates the old city
from the sea of Akko which you can see in the first picture. I swear,
the sea changed colour every time I travelled to Akko. You can see a few
digital pictures of Akko (and the sea is featured) in my
web-portfolio:
Anyway, enjoy these pictures, if you please. Hopefully I can travel to Israel soon and take a lot of film with me...
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| The shoreline; this view is familiar to anyone who travels to Akko, as it's the first thing you see by the landgate to the city. |
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| In the basar alley |
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| When you enter this coffeeshop, you tend to focus first
on how much stuff there is. Then you notice that the owner is
sitting somewhere in the back, ready to make you some freshly brewed
coffee. I found him very different in character to most basar shop owners. |
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| Boys playing football |
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| Elderly gentlemen sitting and talking... and also, for some reason, a motorcycle. |
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| A boy crossed my path. |
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| A boy with a spook mask also crossed my path. |
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| And finally, a fountain in the Garden of Ridvan, near Akko. |
