Edinburgh diary

silver shoot

papajka — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:27:03 +0000

finally i have finished editing silver jeweleries for Dundee Silver, please have a look at results. around 100 photos edited manually in photoshop, whew..

light box from ebay just arrived, so second collection will be shot without my camera reflections on shiny surfaces :]

report from concert

papajka — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:52:23 +0000

Meursault, Conquering Animal Sound and Jonnie Common live at Limbo, Edinburgh
2nd April 2011, www.limbolive.co.uk

Jonnie Common
Mersault
Conquering Animal Sound
(bottom of the page)

bronica and current issues

papajka — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:01:08 +0000

Valentin from Moscow

and more photos

now I am thinking about one project I plan to make before my return to Riga, hope I’ll have enough time to finish it and maybe will try to sell prints on Edinburgh Fringe.
Semester ended great. I’ve got good feedback from photography tutors, both projects+workbooks are graded as A-, weeehaa :)
Film documentary module (“Representing the real”) – B- (I was hoping for C).
Grade still pending for Photography and Film Criticism.

Douglas

papajka — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:16:38 +0000

My first manual-developed black and white film, my first printing with enlarger and my first photograph with photogramm elements. Made for Portrait module for Uni.

Yami in Kama

papajka — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:11:06 +0000

Probaby the best picture taken during my second visit back in Latvia.

papajka.com/adream/

papajka — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:05:00 +0000

I haven’t wrote in this blog for months, actually there was not a lot of things to “declare”…
Recently I finished to work on a wee documentary project, which could grow in something bigger, and I hope it will, because I am (almost) absolutely happy with results and absolutely happy about people response to this project. I hope to proceed and collect as many stories as I can. So, if You are interested in participating in this documentary and to honestly share your life-story, please contact me.

papajka.com/adream/

investigating the territory

papajka — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:12:32 +0000

How many walking hours are needed to get know a city? probably eternity is somehow involved in that. It is like understanding a person – when You thing You start to know somebody, he does something absolutely unpredictable. (mental) constructions are always in progress. Like I read somewhere today, that human soul doesn’t have a bottom. Somewhere = Steven King’s “Morality”

bus nr23

papajka — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:41:40 +0000

Today I decided not to go home after shooting for Narrative module, I thought – why not to check where this bus is going, till the very end. At the end there were two-floor cute houses and classic Scottish hills. All these photos are made throught the glass of bus nr23. Will do this more and more, so I’ll better know the City and bus routes.

18 November – Latvian independence day

papajka — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:35:11 +0000

new places

papajka — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:47:57 +0000

Just recently I had a first visitor who came to see me from Latvia. Showing the city to my life partner took me away from everyday routine paths – finally I’ve visited places I wanted to and I’m starting to form my personal tourist’s plan – list of locations I particularly love. We’ve walked along the Water of Leith (I think now it’s my favorite place in town; with lush trees, river with waterfalls), we’ve visited Dean Village, Port of Leith and Newheaven Lighthouse, Royal Mile, Calton Hill, pubs, shops…Finally I’ve tasted traditional Scottish dish – haggis and various sorts of ales, beers, ciders and whiskeys. We’ve been to Yann Tiersen’s concert (well, that was too.. experimental), we’ve traveled to Glasgow in the first morning train and been at one of local electronic gigs. That was also too experimental. Are we getting older and/or just aching for harmony?