Trapped In Transit

Author: Trappo

  • Photography as a business

    I ditched my wedding photography business in 2020; it was simply not worth it anymore for me. It became too mainstream, and something the average NPC will do as soon as they’re handed an expensive camera. I cared too much, and it cost me dearly in terms of stress and health, while it was being done recklessly by everyone else.

    Just a note here — I was among the first wedding photographers in Bulgaria to have a wedding-photography-themed website back in 2004, and to this very day, I’m maybe the only one who still has the RAW files of all his weddings for archival purposes for all of his clients, and due to the mere realization that the “negative” of that 2004 wedding can be remastered by someone better in the future. And by that — I really fuckin’ mean it!

    However, this November a friend asked me to take their shots, as he wanted me specifically to do it. And boy, did I still have it! The photos turned out great! (Not publishing due to privacy.)

    I spent some more time checking how my fellow wedding photographers are doing, and I continue to see the same boring stuff. Hell, even WPJA photos are now total posing crap, and that used to be my gold standard for journalistic wedding photography. I made the right choice, but still when I have to I can still deliver for the next 50 years!
    Still curious? Some years back I made this virtual galley for my first 10 years of wedding photography, take a look.

  • December blues

    Its been a while since I didn’t post, so I literally screwed my own diary thing. It is what it is. December stuff.

  • Saturday walks

  • November Camera Roll

  • October on film

    It is a busy month, but I found some time to develop film. Ilford HP4, Yashica Mat 635

  • October

  • Summer photoshoots in Sofia

    It’s been a busy month, however apart from my street side quests, It was good photoshoots summer season.

    The locations were nothing fancy: patches of green you’d normally pass without noticing. That’s what I like—making something out of what’s already there.

    The families came with different energy. Some stiff at first, others already performing. At the end everyone relaxes, and that’s when it works.

    I don’t try to over-stage these shoots. It’s more about catching smiles and moments, not staging.

  • September 2025 – Volume 2

    Volume 2 of the September Street Photography sights

    The times moves quite fast this week, so below are some nice snaps with the Rayban Meta glasses. in the meantime, they dropped a new version (not, I’m not talking about the display bullshit ones)

    The snot Dropper

  • A street reportage

    “The biggest problems in your life will come in an idle, eventless afternoon”

    So I’m walking the dogs in that evening.

    Those Rayban meta glasses are really something that I didn’t expect. To be honest, I’ve expected them to be an utter crap – and in fact anything “AI” and “Meta” in them really is. The AI model feels like a clunky mix of an early 2000s chatbot and a dated GPT-3 — essentially useless. However they have something that I hoped for and it delivered – photographers ultimate, stealth tool, border on the creep zone. And it was the second day that this happened:

    An old lady lost her balance and fell quite bad on the floor. The teen was frantically trying to explain to 112 what happened, so they send an ambulance.

    I rushed to see how can I help, the bad part was that the lady has lost consciousness and was suffocating due to wound from the fell, leaving her husband frozen, unsure what to do.
    The only ever really valuable training that I have ever received from employer at work is the “First response” course @ work from Bulgarian Red cross. This is really invaluable training on what to do in these situations. So as the steps for securing the scene were performed, I’ve decided to act by turning her gently sideways, so her throat is clear and she can breathe better.

    Luckily a family of real doctors also came to save the day, they were really top notch to further save the situation, so they are the real heroes here, as it was a real luck to have them there.

    They quickly took over the situation to exclude that it is something more serious like a stroke.

    So eventually, we helped the lady to stand and sit on the bench. A no comment photos will follow, to happy end the story – the bottomline is – sign up for a first aid course, as it can save someone’s life. Leave it to professionals, be a human, act as a team with total strangers… and sometimes be a creep to document the story with them stupid meta AI glasses. Street/reportage is about interruptions, about things snapping into frame with no warning – embrace them.


    Only photo I took with a real camera (Ricoh GR IIIx)

  • Today is the day 😆

    Schools starts and the city madness started officially!