lukemgraphy

lukemgraphy, 20 hours ago to photography

Nowa Huta in Kraków.

Built from the ground-up as a separate city to settle workers employed in the newly built steelworks (it's even in the name, which literally means 'the new steelworks'). Designed as a poster city for Soviet propagandists. Huge, industrial, pompous. These days it's one of the most populous parts of Kraków, even though it completely didn't feel that way during my long weekend visit.

I barely scratched the surface, as severe planning mistakes were made on my end. Plus I don't like taking cliche postcard photos in harsh light. But I managed to see three different faces of this place and that counts I guess.

We start with the socrealistic face. The one that dates back to 1950s and truly feels different than whatever my peanut Warsaw brain assumed Kraków to be.

#photography #cracow #poland #kraków #polska #architecture #travel

An apartment block next to a fancy lantern with two sources of light on separate legs.
Very old street name boards on a building wall.
A plan of Nowa Huta on the wall of Hotel Centrum.

NYSloth, 1 day ago to Dog

It's Jimmy's birthday today, so here's a flashback to the day he came home. #Dog #DogsOfPixelfed #DogsOfMastodon #Mondog

lukemgraphy, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to photography

Since reportage and documentary are among my strongest interests in photography, this deserves some of my attention as well.

So, for various reasons I happened to be awake as early as 4am on Sunday and I saw this huge smoke above the block of flats in my area. At first I thought it was a rain cloud, but I looked deeper and something was clearly off.

I decided to take an early morning stroll to see what was going on and saw this.

I thought it was something close to my area, but my senses couldn't stop second-guessing me. I hadn't heard any explosion. I couldn't smell anything or feel the heat. It was still damn cold minutes before sunrise.

Funny enough, a day earlier I installed Fallout Shelter on my tablet and I had a lot of apocalyptic thoughts looking at that.

What happened is that a huge shopping center in Warsaw caught massive fire. So massive it could be seen from literally anywhere in the city. No reports on injuries, but thousands of people lost their businesses, many of them family-run.

There's also a lot of political background as well as quite a sizable room for conspiracy theories, but that's for another time maybe.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #documentary

lukemgraphy, 5 days ago to photography

Banksy Museum in Kraków

("Commercial Success Is a Mark of Failure for a Graffiti Artist")

(the existence of folks like me who are in awe with his art after seeing it on a ticketed museum exhibition could be such mark too I think)

#photography #cracow #poland #krakow #polska #banksy #museum #streetart #grafitti

A riot policeman with angel's wings and a face replaced with a yellow smiley face. The work is visible from behind mesh fence.
A rat holding a camera looking at the viewer. Next to its head, an exclamation mark can be seen.
A wall with a painting of a rat. The rat is holding a red paint. Above it, the text 'Because I'm worthless' can be seen.

lukemgraphy, 6 days ago to photography

Visit Kraków. It will blow you off your shoes.

#photography #cracow #poland #kraków #polska #streetphotography

Another shoe, this time a small one, hanging on the barrier separating pedestrians from tram rails.

lukemgraphy, 9 days ago to photography

Geese Louise

(back from Kraków with geez-how-many-gigabytes of photos and 4k30 short videos. And downloading them from my iPhone took hours, with Airdrop simply noping out at 700+ files)

#photography #streetphotography #streetphoto #kraków #cracow #poland #polska

Bella, 15 days ago to random

Let's have some #PuzzleFunWithBella 😊
Do you know what this is? Have fun!
(Solution in the third image description)

Finest grey ‘straw’ that glistens in the sunlight.
A piece of wood sticks out of the straw. The solution: These are close-ups of the trunk of a palm tree.

lukemgraphy, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to photography

Signs, again.

(sighs, again)

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #trafficsigns

jeder, 16 days ago to random

more rally cars

white-blue liveried rally car with golden rims
rally car with white livery and some drawn tire marks on there
rally car in red-white-blue wave-ish thing livery

lukemgraphy, 17 days ago to photography

I see you baby.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska

lukemgraphy, 19 days ago to photography

Stroll.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphotography

lukemgraphy, 20 days ago to photography

Waiting.

(I have too many griefs around this photo, but it exists and I can't change it any more, so...)

#photography #streetphotography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska

lukemgraphy, 23 days ago to photography

In desperate search for colors in this cold and cloudy weather.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #bloomscrolling #petals

lukemgraphy, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to photography

Slow down, give way to pedestrians.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphotography

lukemgraphy, 25 days ago to photography

Signs.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska

lukemgraphy, 27 days ago to photography

Street performers have been a colorful part of Warsaw landscape since I remember. I sometimes photograph them, but I always have legal and ethical issues about publishing those photos.

This is one of super rare cases when a shy introvert like me had a chance to get it right.

And this fantastic gentleman was sitting in such a sweet spot of this new pedestrian bridge I just couldn’t resist. What I didn’t know at that time is that he’s a skilled guitarist, composer, and guitar instructor.

My friends - let me introduce you to the one and only John Neko.

And if you're still here (thank you btw!), go to his Instagram profile and read his pinned story of the Coldplay concert: https://www.instagram.com/p/CuiDxhaocdQ/?img_index=1

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphoto #streetphotography

lukemgraphy, 29 days ago to photography

Oookay, I think I'm done shooting random sunsets with focal lengths shorter than 75mm for the rest of this decade. I don't expect more luck like this any time soon.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #sunset

lukemgraphy, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to photography

I'd rather die living
than not live while alive

THE GOAL IS NONE

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska

lukemgraphy, 1 month ago to photography

"Have a nice revolution"

23rd March 2014 as stated in EXIF. The Bell Tower Of St Anne's Church on Krakowskie Przedmieście.

Months earlier before I snapped this, the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine was nearing its end, beginning the period of a huge transition in that country. They just forced their pro-Russian president off the office and started writing entirely new page of their history.

I’ll be honest though: even though I followed the news at the time, I had no goddamn clue how incredibly significant all of that was. I can’t say I was paying attention while Russia was annexing Crimea. Everyone is a genius in hindsight but I can't say I had foresight back then.

And the 2014 me wouldn’t believe the 2024 me if I had said to him about February 2022.

😔

🇺🇦 ❤️

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #ukraine #ukraina #slavaukraini #euromaidan

lukemgraphy, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to photography

William Eggleston said in the 2009 episode of BBC Arts' 'Imagine' that he has personal discipline of taking one picture of one thing. Otherwise he would have been confused about picking the better shot later.

Of course I never listen to the more experienced. I took two attempts at the same idea and now I don't know which one I should keep. I dunno, I'll toss a coin maybe.

I'll never learn. 😓

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphotography

lukemgraphy, 1 month ago to photography

Because who said street photography has to be about people or composition rules?

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphotography #dog