Sea is the key

... to scatter my thoughts, to fool away my dreams, to collect some freedom...

Πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει

I haven't learned how to live in the present. What happens to me all the time is getting stuck between the past and the future which results in experiencing the same emotions over and over. I wish this distracting repeating could stop at least in my dreams.

One day

I will write a book about the water with trillions of pictures included. Need a time to practice the writing part, look the pictures aren't such a big issue :)

Elements

From the water I come and blues and greens are my main consistencies

 John at Svala beach, Samos 2011

Summer cliches II

Also check my etsy store, I added some new items there :)

http://alexmalexdesigns.etsy.com/

Summer cliches

Prints for sale

This two pictures are printed for sale, if anybody is interested please contact me

My granny as a photographer

Found this old dress with clovers pattern in my granny's wardrobe. I really liked the vintage look, but the dress was too big for me, so I asked granny to be a model for me. Surprisingly she accepted with a smile. Surprisingly because the last time I took pictures of her she said that for the selfportraits I am doing my best to look beautiful, but when taking pictures of others I don't care about if they look good or not hahaha Which is probably true (evil laugh) ;)

 

My first band shoot

Ok, I know the pics are cliche and so on, but I find it difficult even thinking in this heat :D So those boys are friends of mine, who are making grindcore music (I hope I wrote the style right). They needed pictures for one event and kindly asked me to help them. And I gotta say they were acting like gentlemen, I almost felt like a real photographer with them :D Here is a link to their myspace page.

When flickr connects me with interesting people

"there will be no taste
in sweet fruit, or
light tea cup clicks
on kissing old china, and especially
no bluebird Japanese
embroidery on the
napkins"

from Poem of loss by Kimberly Pierson

  
Here is her tumblr where among the rest you can find her poetry and music

Unfortunately I can't breath under water

water element

A shadowless future pouring out of my mouth. I've been there where existance is an empty staring through a window where the sadness isn't acceptable and forgivable.

Surprise surprise

Last weekend I took some pictures of my mother, while visiting my granny. Yesterday following my huge curiosity I developed the film and barely waited for it to dry so I can scan the pictures. Luckily it is summer and it doesn't take a long time for a film to dry in this heat. When I started scanning and editing the images a conversation, I had with John just a week or two ago, came to the surface of my mind. We were talking about photography, nature and inspiration. Of course about some things we agreed about other - disagreed. But John said that it would be good if I reconnect with my pictures and feelings from the time when we met - me, Alek and John. My instinctive answer to him was, that I don't know how to do that and I am not anymore what I was before. Well yesterday while I was looking at my last pictures I had the feeling of "SurpRisE SurpRisE" and may be I am wrong, may be I just wished I can take a picture the way I was doing it back in 2010, but when I look at the follwoing ones, I just can't stop this "surprise, surprise" flickering in me. 

It all started

So I have a new blog connected to my first Etsy shop :)))) I am very excited about it and I will be very happy if you take a minute to visit it.
Blog: http://alex-malex2.blogspot.com/
ETSY shop : http://www.etsy.com/shop/alexmalexdesigns?ref=pr_shop_more

And my most recent pictures of my friends Fox and Kris :) Love you, girls <3

Wild wheat