A in the Cities

An unexpected turn of events: this blog will now join the great portion of our blogosphere dedicated to daily musings and diary dealings. The photos on this blog will soon move to a "proper" website as soon as I find time to tackle Dreamweaver CS5. Speaking of time and dreams, there's a very high chance that this blog, shortly after ceasing to be a storage room for animal photography, will also stop storing thoughts. Unless there's a way to bend time? (Apparently, there is: http://www.mindpowernews.com/BendTime.htm)

So anyway. In preparation for a new photo site, I've been looking through a series of images taken on the beaches of Athens circa 2007...

This guy was all smiles –flattered to model his ginger looks for the camera. His friend, in contrast, frowned upon realising that no photo was to be taken of him, and quickly worked out it was because he did not have a magic mustache.

These women were winding down for the day (hence the golden rays of light). I remember Greece introducing me to a more relaxed and humble approach to the practical act of dressing/undressing –in front of friends, but also in public.

The magnificent Bruce Gilden, without a doubt, was the one who moved me to these beaches. His shots of Coney Island, taken during the late 1960s, sum up the joy of taking someone's picture: pulling qualities to the surface and marking the moment you identified them. Here's a great slideshow essay in which Gilden's voiceover tells of his Coney Island adventures.