Snapshots from the car – my purposeless photography (part vii).
Just a reminder and an explanation for these who follow my on WordPress (Jetpack) application and due to the bad implementation of the WordPress[.]com and WordPress[.]org you have to click on the “VISIT Photographer’s log for more with the goal to see the whole post not only the featured image and a few words. Every my post is around 8-15 images and some bla-bla less or more connected to the theme of my post.
Believe your eyes—this time you aren’t mistaken. Yes, I’ve been posting day after day, and I plan to release another one tomorrow as well. If i have three days of holiday connected with the weekend, at least i will use this quality time creatively. Right now I’m sitting in my salon and fighting with a hungry mosquito or two, who came for a free food even all the windows are covered with the thin mosquito net. The last years i can name an international mosquito years. There are tons in my village (sure that not only in this specific one but also in the cities). When I go out in the morning to water the plants, they arrive in flocks, like never tried a human blood before. And the interesting detail, their life circle is very short and probably a sip of my blood was and will be the first and last of their lives. They know exactly what to do with me and my skin without and mosquito school or university. Call it whatever – the DNA or instinct – They know perfectly well that they need my blood to reproduce and nothing can stop them. Absolutely nothing. We’ll build stations on Mars faster than we find a way to get rid of these bloodsuckers.
Early this morning i drove my car to the old Jafa port to buy a freshly caught fish for the lunch or dinner with my family. As usual i bought Denis fish, which is absolutely tasty especially prepared with onion, garlic and lemon in aluminum foil. As one, who is having a camera wherever I am, i can describe myself as an “interested party” i spent a hour foe walking and photographing the morning life of the old port. Many fisherman with fishing rods – locals and Chinese foreigner workers. Yep, sounds strange – i saw many Indian workers coming on their electric bicycles to buy fish (the sellers – Arabs guys “originally” call them all by the same name — “India”) but all the fishermen were only Chinese guys. All this suitable (and was photographed) for my ongoing project The life of Foreigners – my photographic reflections. The first image is the moment when the seller cleaned my fishes from scales and other internal inedible parts 🙂
The whole series photographs of this post is my documentary snapshot aesthetic topic Snapshots from the car – my purposeless photography. I just hope that you understand – i wrote “purposeless” ironically – everything has it’s specific purpose, even street photography 🙂
So wonderful series 💯 loved 2, 5 beautiful shots . .. Speaking to mosquitoes i always got bitten no matter where i go 🙂 i think my blood type AB is probably yummy for them 😂 Enjoy your holiday with your photography posts !
Thank you for the kind words Naomi. Hava a great weekend as well !
I find it wild you have snow there… I never think: Lemme grab my skies and go to Jerusalem.
Haha good point Matt. It’s really not too frequent event but when this happens in Jerusalem police just close lhe main roads to the city from center of the country and not easy to get it but i always ready to drive when there is any hint that the road is open. Well, its far for any skies activity but very nice as a natural phenomena and im waiting for this every year. I hace a series of the posts about – just if you curious 😉
https://www.victorbezrukov.com/tag/snowfall/
Your photos are the reason I know it snows there at all. Until December of 2024, I lived in Colorado Springs. It snowed all the time there… but to see snow in what my mind tells me is essentially a desert is just wild.
I love that challenge to my preconceived idea of where you are.
I understand. Half of my life i lived in the south Kazahstan (i was born in Ukraine) and it was strange to many to hear that the summer temperature usually was more then 40° – with no any kind of conditioners. And at winter some days were cold like in Siberia – -20°. The climate there is continental so it was very difficult to get with the dry beain how its possible.
Btw 11 years ago i was stuck around 16 hours on my way to Jerusalem during the snowy storm. I was forced to leave my car there in the mountains for 2 more days with 250-300 other cars 😉
My observations of places that just don’t get a lot of it is there’s just no real infrastructure for getting rid of the stuff/keeping the roads clear/etc.
Yes. Exactly. The lack of suitable infrastructure. The cars are not ready for the -1° and icy road. And the people. Some will never get the concept of driving on snow or on the ice ;-)) But it was lot of fun to spend a stormy night in the snowy mountain. For my luck the tank of my car was full and i had my camera with me.. My best infrastructure 🙂
It’s pretty cool Victor, I love your snapshots from the car. Looks like moments captured well
thank you very much Milena ! If you connecting to this snapshot aesthetic concept – this one the 7th post of this series and you can find some more images in the previous posts with an explained “philosophy”
Cool, thank you
Dos it really exists; purposeless photography?
Hi Arjan. Now its a theme for another post 😉 Im thinking about. Will mention on your question if its ok 😉
Of course no problem. I believe the intention behind photography is the deciding factor. In my opinion, there is a fundamental difference between visual communication (storytelling) and taking beautiful photos. And even then…. Looking forward for your next or other post.
absolutely agree with your words 😉 thank you again !
Love your projects Victor, the ‘lives of foreigners’ sounds interesting. Some class shots here for the drive-by shootings. 🙂
Thank you for taking a look and reading Fraggle 😉
I love photo projects like this one. Well done.
Thank you very much Jeff. For sure im enjoying to see similar long term works of other photographers as well.
Motion blur. Such a wonderful way of capturing in an ethereal way. My favourite way? Moving the camera. Although elongated shutter speed at moving themes is good fun too. These are fantastic Victor. 🙏🏽🍁🍂
Thank you very much Gray. I love to move my pocket camera when the flash is acting and the shutter speed is slow 😉
There is yourself and Steven Lawrence who give me a yearning and inspiration to start photographing with black and white film again. Time however is my enemy with music taking precedence currently. Other stuff too.
Whilst deleting photographs off WordPress, there was a section of them containing photos of my negative developing screw top canisters, a darkroom ‘bag’ for loading film into the spirals in the canisters, a bulk film loader, timers and various other bits and pieces. I want to use the natural eco friendly coffee, washing soda, etc process for producing some images for a CD cover. I bought a cheap negative scanner from a charity shop for £10. Thought the naivety of results would be ideal. My Pentax LX SLR has been waiting patiently.
Holga type results, Out of Date film or double takes by rewinding film totally after 24 or 36 taken exposures and retaking other scenes on top of those first takes could be realised as a project.
We’ll see. In the meantime I shall look at your photos and Steven’s photos and enjoy both your amazing results.
Cheers Victor. 🙏🏽🍁🍂
here are your words my friend. Huge appreciation for your kindness !
Thank you.
Victor. I replied to a couple of your comments, but can’t see them. Weird. I was saying in a reply here that hasn’t gone, that you inspire me to start film again. But that time regarding music focus is a problem. A bit longer before. But the same ideal. 👍
Thank you Gray. I see all your comments and really appreciate your attention and kind words. It’s not easy to find time for different kinds of art. Everything needs a dedication. I’m trying to continue my photography practice and together with it plaay guitar, didjeridoo and the analog instruments and each one need a lot of time and i feel like them stole this time each from other ,;-)
Makes life interesting though. All your interests are good ones. And, like yourself it seems, I also tend to block focus if they involve lots of attention. And then, once achieved, move on to another interest that requires deep attention. Daily timetable slots of attending to a variety of attention spans for different subjects aren’t my thing.
Cheers Victor.