When I went to Israel in January, I was overdue for a vacation, an escape, a rejuvenation, a time out, an adventure, a break. I took no computers. and no cameras. OK – I did take a camera – my Black and White “film” camera – I explained about it
here ( in short – I took my old,
Canon 5D, set it to Manual, B&W, JPG Large,
28 mm lens with a
polarizing filter – and used black gaffer’s tape to hide the screen on the back of the camera so I couldn’t see the result…) it’s my vacation camera- and it brings me back to the way I used to take pictures – not knowing what they’d look like until i developed them. It makes me slow down, and it makes me take one photo instead of 5 that look exactly the same. Anyways… while I was there – I met with
my friend Lilac who was curating an art show titled “Abroad” or in hebrew-
חוצלארץ. And she saw one of my images from here and asked if it could participate. I tried to be cool about it but inside I was YES, THEY LIKE ME, THEY REALLY LIKE ME! so I participated in an art show – my first one since graduating
Art School. I had the best time visiting home – and I spent a few days as a tourist in my own town. I didn’t get the camera out much – but ion a couple of mornings I took a bicycle along the boardwalk and stopped to snap some shots. And even though I was Home, it made me feel like I was Abroad. Here’s the result.
and here’s an online blurb that used my image– yup – that’s my name down there on the bottom right.