I was sitting in a small coffeeshop in Dali / China enjoying looking at passing people and this man turns up with some type of old looking scroll. (is it called that?!) Anyways, I’m not much for the tourist type of things so I declined buying although he insisted for a long time changing the price dramatically to make me buy it. He had this really nice way and we laughed together a lot. I didn’t want to buy and finally he continued his journey. I felt really bad about the whole thing, he was such a nice old man and he really just wanted a few coins to make this day work – he wasn’t a beggar and I’ve given them plenty of change but this guy who tried so hard I gave nothing but small talk.
I was hoping for him to return so I could give him something and to my great joy he did – about an hour or so later – and I gave him something similar to a dollar and his face shine like a small child’s. He said, Now I have dinner for tonight.
Picture taken using the wonderful little Sigma DP1. Full size image on flickr.
A house once belong to Surte glasbruk. Surte glasbruk is the glass factory famous for designing the very first Coca Cola bottle. But that’s another story. Now the house has since the last 13 years been the home for people with difficulties – in some cases drugs, some health others money etc. Now, a new road is under construction and within a month the house will be emptied – and luckily for the people inside most of them has a new place to go – probably a better place too – this one has really seen the best of days and were never meant to be lived in at all – as it was built and used as an office.
Now, I’ve been visiting them to help my way and I consider them all close friends. I hardly showed them a camera before mostly because I don’t want anyone to think that I’ve been there because of a shot – but today I just couldn’t hold myself and I went there and took a few pictures. No one had any objections..
I brought the SD14 coupled with the 12-24mm lens and I had my friend Bengt assisting me with my quadra. I tried hard to recreate the light that I felt was in the room to begin with – and often going above 2s exposures. tricky. :)
Also all shots has first been developed using Sigma Photo Pro and then post-processed in Lightroom 3 – mostly adding vignetting and some contrast adjustments.
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