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
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 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.
Schools starts and the city madness started officially!
