Street portrait. Jerusalem, February 2019.
Hasidic jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Street Photo
Category Archives: Street Photography
The Changing Seasons: September 2017
September is here and brought autumn with her. This is the third consecutive year that I cover September in this challenge and after this (as you probably already know) there’s only 3 months left of the year.
Oslo Opera, Bjørvika.
Jerusalem | New Edits
During the spring I’ve re-edited some of my old material from Jerusalem and today I uploaded around 100 of those photos to Flickr.
Israel, Jerusalem, ירושלים, ישראל
Most of the photos haven’t been shared before. Naturally my photography skills have improved a lot since then, but some of the material is still good in my opinion. Here’s a few of the photos and you can find the rest on Flickr.
Chords Bridge, גשר המיתרים, Gesher HaMeitarim.
כיפת הסלע, Dome of the Rock
שוק מחנה יהודה, Mahane Yehuda Market
The Old City, העיר העתיקה
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjXVLEJD
JJ Green Night Market, Bangkok
JJ Green Night Market in Bangkok. A lively place.
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Mango Sticky Rice
Near the Wat Pho temple in Bangkok you can get some really good sticky rice. It’s a small, confined space – a tiny place where the only thing they serve is mango sticky rice.
Preparing mango sticky rice, Bangkok, Thailand.
It might look dangerous the way she’s chopping away at the mango, but the chef is in full control.
Bangkok Security
As you probably already know, I was in Bangkok not long ago. Let me tell you that they beefed up the security when I visited Bangkok. They even put handcuffs in my hotel room, just in case…
Outside the royal palace.
Chatuchak Park Gym
Office buildings nearby Chatuchak.
Bangkok, Thailand: In Chatuchak (Jatujak) Park, vis-a-vis the JJ Green Market, there’s an outdoor gym. As luck would have it, I passed by when I was on my way to see my friend Natcha in her shop Bubblebrain Tattoo’n’art that’s located in JJ Green.
The Changing Seasons: March 2017
«The Changing Seasons» is back once again…
Fuck Up Point in Oslo – my V2 this month
The Changing Seasons: January 2017
The Changing Seasons is here again. Like they say: “new year, new possibilities”, or perhaps you’re one of those people who don’t want to get out of your comfort zone? In that case: “New year, same, same”. Either way you’re welcome to join this challenge that will run throughout the year.
Havnelageret, Langkaia 1, Oslo.
How you interpret “the changing seasons” is all up to you: a painting or perhaps a digital manipulation? One photo, a gallery with plenty of photos? Photos of the same place each month or different spots? A recipe (with an illustration photo that you’ve shot), your aging face, your declining health? Street, flash or portrait photography?
Be creative or don’t.
A Walk Through Praha – Part 2
More shots from Praha: street photography, night shots, portraits… Random generic stuff.
Did you miss part one? That’s because it’s in my other blog (the one that you probably don’t know about):
https://artishorseshit.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/a-walk-through-praha-part-1/
After you’ve checked out my other blog, you can have a look at Jo’s blog:
https://restlessjo.me/2016/09/12/jos-monday-walk-rosedale-sheep-and-heather/
Oslo Pride Parade 2016
Here’s a gallery from Oslo Pride Parade 2016 that took place this weekend.
I think I know what the horse is thinking…
“Why couldn’t they take a fucking bike..?”
Check out more partner related posts over at WordPress: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/partners/
The Changing Seasons: June 2016
The summer has finally arrived. Here’s this month’s «The Changing Seasons».
I’ve been busy lately and still haven’t visited all your posts from last month. Basically it’s been a mix between a lot of work and a whole lot of nothing. Doing nothing in particular also takes a lot of time. The latest news is that a few days ago I got the following message in my inbox on Instagram: @cguzmanofficial
«Hi Cardinal!
We freaked out with your Instagram feed 🙂
Most probably you already know it, but let us tell you how fantastic is your sense of art. We see hundreds of accounts each month, and yours is something apart.
We can’t believe that you are not followed by thousands, but that’s one of the mysteries of social media…
Anyhow, we are here to back you :D. Honestly, we don’t follow many people, but we think you really deserve it»
Needless to say, but that was an awesome message to find in the inbox.
Anyway, enough blah, blah, blah. Here’s my V1 gallery for «The Changing Seasons». I might, or I might not, post V2 later…
June: the Barcode area.
Downhill in the Barcode
June 2016: Construction area
Sørengautstikkeren
Sørengautstikkeren, with Ekebergåsen in the background.
Sørenga – The city beach
Sørenga – The city beach
Sørengkaia – the city beach.
Sørenga with the Opera House in the background
Floating bridge between the Opera and Sørenga
Sukkerbiten
A crooked HDR panorama
Train tracks, Gamlebyen.
What are you up to tonight? Nothing, just hugging a huge penis.
June: Handheld night photo.
June: Night photo from Ekebergåsen
Ekeberg Restaurant
Water is like a magnet to kids.
What’s this «Changing Seasons» blogging challenge?
«The Changing Seasons 2016» is a blogging challenge with two versions: the original (V1) which is purely photographic and the new version (V2) where you can allow yourself to be more artistic and post a painting, a recipe, a digital manipulation, or simply just one photo that you think represents the month. Anyone with a blog can join this challenge and it’ll run throughout 2016. It doesn’t matter if you couldn’t join the first month(s), late-comers are welcomed. These are the rules, but they’re not written in stone – you can always improvise, mix & match to suit your own liking:
These are the rules for Version 1 (The Changing Seasons V1):
- Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons
- Each month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery.
- Don’t use photos from your archive. Only new shots.
These are the rules for Version 2 (The Changing Seasons V2):
- Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons
- Each month, post one photo (recipe, painting, drawing, whatever) that represents your interpretation of the month.
- Don’t use archive stuff. Only new material!
Links to participants:
- https://tishfarrell.com/2016/06/21/changing-seasons-june-on-windmill-hill/
- https://teepee12.com/2016/06/23/the-changing-seasons-june-2016-the-summer-solstice/
- http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.dk/2016/06/not-s-of-summer.html
- https://emiliopasquale.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/changing-seasons-june/
- https://artifactsandfictions.com/2016/06/24/nigretta-falls/
- https://michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/june-2016-the-changing-seasons/
- https://elizabethkrallphotos.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/the-changing-seasons-sydney-june/
- https://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/the-changing-seasons-june/
- https://cornwallincolours.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/monthly-photo-challenge-june/
- https://thebeespeak.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/june-the-changing-seasons-v2/
- https://mylifelivedfull.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/changing-seasons-time-to-wrap-up-june/
- https://maraeastern.com/2016/06/29/changing-seasons-612/
- https://mpozzanghera.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/changing-seasons-june-the-nature-show/
- https://patriciasplace.me/2016/06/29/june-in-my-neighborhood/
- https://tassitus.com/2016/06/30/the-changing-seasons-182365/
- https://elizabatz.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/changing-seasons-in-the-park-june-2016/
- https://thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/changing-season-2016-june/
- https://playingwithmyfirstdslrcamera.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/the-changing-seasons-2016-june/
- http://lisadorenfest.com/2016/06/25/passage-notes-the-whitsundays-to-cooktown/
- https://fstopmama.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/the-changing-seasons-june/
- https://lingeringvisions.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/the-changing-seasons-june-2016/
- I’ll add links to your posts here until the end of the month.
Also make sure to out my spreadshirt shop:
Norwegian shop (NOK):
https://shop.spreadshirt.no/1123203/
English (EURO):
http://shop.spreadshirt.no/100035802
Night Shots From Bangkok 2:4
The continuation of random night shots from Bangkok.
I think the curves in the red car looks nice in this night shot. Make sure to check out and follow my official Instagram for more photos: @cguzmanofficial
I participate in WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge 2016. (Click the image above to see more WPC posts in this blog).
Night Shots From Bangkok 1:4
Some night shots, street photography, a portrait of Rogue Seraphim, plus some photos from a shop in Bangkok. Random Bangkok stuff.
Model: Rogue Seraphim
Chinatown, Bangkok
It has been hectic lately, so I haven’t blogged much. Hope you’re all having a great time and that you enjoyed my little gallery from Bangkok.
I’m glad to say that I’ll be returning to Bangkok in 2017.
Check out Paula’s post too:
https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/thursdays-special-here-and-there/
Thursday’s Special
I’m not sure if that’s the best solution…
kill them all
On Friday I was thinking that I’d go out and take some new landscape photos this weekend, but the weekend has been grey, wet and cold, so an executive decision was made: stay at home. Binge watching won this round…
I didn’t want to post a standard landscape photo for WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge this week, so I chose this photo of the National Theatre building in Oslo. “Kill them all” was a play at the theatre.
The National Theatre in Oslo (Norwegian: Nationaltheatret) is one of Norway’s largest and most prominent venues for performance of dramatic arts. – Wikipedia
My entry for:
The Changing Seasons: March 2016
Time for another “Changing Seasons” post. If you don’t know this challenge, you can read more about it at the bottom of this post or in the introduction post. Those of you who follow the news and such, are probably aware that it’s March by now. This means brighter & warmer days here in this part of the world.
I haven’t taken a lot of photos in March – I’m still in this kind of hibernating winter mode, but I did manage to get enough photos for a gallery. No exceptional photos, but acceptable results from a photographer that’s been busy hibernating.
A slightly surrealistic hungover Nazi surprise
I was walking around in Prague, on my way to check out a famous tattoo shop, slightly hung over from the drinks that I had with my hosts the night before. Then all of a sudden I stumbled upon this film set where some Chinese film crew were making a movie. The film was about some Chinese guys (I’m assuming they were the heroes of the story) and it had something to do with Nazis, so there was all these swastikas, men in Nazi-uniforms, old cars and other Nazi effects scattered all around.
Self-portrait with swastika and two actors
Israel 4197
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
2-בהודו
Pushkar, पुष्कर, Rajasthan.
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
I met this woman in Pushkar, India and we hung out for a while. Captured on film and scanned.
Check out WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/vibrant/
1-בהודו
Pushkar, पुष्कर, Rajasthan.
“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”
― Shashi Tharoor
India is, without a doubt and without comparison, the noisiest and dirtiest country I’ve ever visited. Pushkar, were this photo was taken, was relatively quiet though.
My response to Paula’s Thursday’s Special post.
Thursday’s Special
Old Man With Cane (ירושלים)
“The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Street Portraits of Two Young Girls
I’ve posted a B&W portrait of these two young girls before, but I thought I’d share this colorful gallery too. Enjoy these street portraits:
Here’s the previously posted B&W portrait: https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/street-portrait-of-two-young-girls/
WPC: Weightless
Self-portrait on bike.
For the WPC Challenge: Weight(less).
Apropos bikes, here’s an old photo that I posted back in March 2013:
Funny Turkish guy I bumped into several years ago.
Monthly Photo Challenge: The Changing Seasons 10
October is here, but I’ll show you some photos from last month. For those of you who don’t keep up with such trivialities, I can reveal that we’re talking about September.
Nothing exciting happened in September, but I did manage to take a bunch of photos after all.
Another Priest, Bishop or Whatever…
In a previous post in this blog I mistook a Greek Orthodox Bishop for being an Armenian Priest. I don’t want to do the same mistake again, so this is just a photo of a priest, a bishop or whatever. He’s probably Greek… I’m not sure, but I can say for sure that he was in Jerusalem at the time that this photo was taken.
A Greek Orthodox priest, bishop or whatever..?
It’s a long time ago since I’ve visited Jerusalem, so you can consider this street portrait as an entry for «Paula’s Thursday’s Special: ‘traces of the past’».
Related Posts:
- https://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/the-armenian-priest/
- https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/thursdays-special-traces-of-the-past-03/
Cardinal Guzman 