Two hot days, two mad markets, two beautiful cameras.

 

A few weeks ago I managed to take two relatively long trips during the same weekend, literally day after day. One day i visited Jerusalem, locating around 90 km to the South-east from my living place. And on the next day I headed to Haifa, which is just 80 km strictly to the North. Those were hot days with around 33C, but i felt completely different in both places. When the air of Jerusalem was hot, but dry, in Haifa it felt like breathing hot water. When in Jerusalem I didn’t feel the hot sun, in Haifa my skin was a little sunburned. But nothing can stop me watching around and taking images – finally, this it was the idea behind both trips, and these small inconveniences only add to the vibes of the street adventure.

The first market is the Mahane Yehuda in Jerusalem, as usual, very busy at Fridays. I walked with a bottle of the local IPA beer in one hand and my Canon P in other. In some moment i found the Argento Empanadas place and couldn’t stop myself from eating a couple of vegetarian pieces.

In Haifa it was more like a survival walk, without beer, but with very delicious portion of falafel in pita. My choice of walk was a Haifa’s flea market, open and filled with shoppers and onlookers even on Saturday. THe falafel ii got after the street walk in the Wadi Nisnas area, which was much less interesting to photograph that day. During this walk i used Ricoh FF-3 P&S camera, which got very negative review by my dear friend Sam from N-Y in his host “The Best Camera I Never Knew Part V: The Ricoh FF-3 AF SUPER”. I think that he just had a bad luck with 3 Ricoh FF-3 cameras. Luckily for me, mine still does its job perfectly…

During both walks i used Kentmere 100 film, but exposed it @200 and @400 according to the days. Today I’m publishing just a 6 images for every day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you haven’t done it yet – please check my recently made photo slide show. These photographs of my good friend Nomi i photographed with both Ricoh GRii and the 15 years old old work-horse Canon 5d mkii cameras during the night session in the white dunes. Naomi is amazing Fire Art artist. take a look and preferably on large monitors, please.

 

 

And, additionally, my last photozine “Isolated in 2020″” is still available on the Blurb store. I photographed the images in the far 2020, during the second (or third) massive isolation due to the only known by our government methods to combat the pandemic. It was a Holidays time and our offices were closed, so the only thing I had to do was staying at home and walking around my village and taking images.