Vincentli*'s photostream  

I mean not, or even never, to take gorgeous photos, but just the same which allows the reproduction of my thoughts and feeling.

The life in film is still yet eternal, which distracts us from the transiency of daily rugged life. There is no preview or re-take in film photography, which is inconvenient, a little bit troublesome and insecure, but nor we can’t retake every seconds ever happened, or existed, in our life span with unpredictability. We are too greedy to capture the flow of time by the tiny frame.

Wandering in the crowded city, congested world of us, photography offers me a humble illusion to escape from own involvement and cast my eyes over the happenings and cityscape. It is such a disguised and deliberate distance between I and socio-economic norms and phenomenon that hopefully entitle me to stay rational while observing the life of others, and to be relaxed and blessed while acknowledging the routines of destiny being bestowed by modernity and the ubiquitous grievances, and even the fragility of human life .

Obsessed with Henri Cartier Bresson’s philosophy of “decisive moments”, I remind myself to exhaust my energy to retain the timeless in time, to compensate my regretful negligence of her passed-away and the moments thereby lost.

Should our life hardly be dramatic, at least make it be in the images constructed, and hopefully render and restore the colours of life through the tiny lens, then educate ourselves to cherish it with humanity, with the indulgence of light and time.

Gears:
Hasselblad 503CX
Carl Zeiss Planar T* CF 80mm F2.8
Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* CF 180mm F4

Leica MP
Summicron 35mm F2 Version 4

Exakta VX
Jena 50mm F2.8
Sonnar 135mm F4
Angenieux 24mm F3.5

Rollei 35S

Nikon F
Nikon F3T
Nikkor AIS 50mm F1.2
Nikkor AIS 24mm F2
Nikkor Non-ai P.C. Auto 105mm