Trapped In Transit

!ENTRIES!

  • Ski @ the Dolomites – Paradise on Earth

    I started skiing when I was a little punk. The truth is, my kind of youngest preserved good memories are from a ski vacation in Pamporovo, Bulgaria. They took us from zero to hero in a week. After that, I stopped skiing for 25 years.

    Years later, I found myself teaching a bunch of kids — including my own — how to ski.

    Last year, my 18-year-old suggested we go to Italy. One of his schoolmates was there at the time, so we packed up and went. It was absolutely incredible. I had never seen mountains like the Dolomites. They don’t just rise — they explode out of the earth.

    This year, we did it again. This time by car. Our good old BMW E90 isn’t exactly young anymore, so a 2,500 km round trip turned into its own kind of adventure.

    Sofia. Serbia. Croatia. OMFG Slovenia — and my new favorite city, Ljubljana. Then Italy, with the final destination: the beautiful Moena.

    Three people. One dog.
    A lot of mountains.

    In the middle of nowhere.

    Lybnljna

    Moena – breakfast view

    A happy Doug

    Thank you Moena!

  • January Film Dev

    It is the first time i’ve been using Kentemere film. I got to admit it is freaking nice for that price! It is great whole new lines of film gets released. The camera is Minolta SRT100X, camera exposure metering with my beloved Minolta Rokkor 55mm 1.7 or Rokkor 200mm f4. Developed on long expired, yellow like piss Ilford ID-11 😂 with the last breath of a Ilford fix. Some Sofia, Bulgaria street photography follows.

    Single film Kentemere 400 @ 400

    Kentemere 400

  • 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 gallery 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