Photography by David Raphael Biren: 2016

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Monaco 1985 Perrier ad poster

Monaco 1985 Perrier ad poster
Leica M Kodachrome film
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Friday, November 4, 2016

What's Wrong With This picture?? E.P.

What's Wrong With This picture?? E.P.
1985 All rights reserved albeit no one would want this particular image because it is interesting only in being messed up ;)

End of day...not paying attention with scan of Kodachrome transparency which is obviously suffering from vibration of camera. It takes a relatively long time to scan the full resolution of a Nikon 2000ED scanner so I said to myself; what the heck, play with it.

What city is this, in what country?

Well it looks like the traffic is flowing on the right hand side of the street so that leaves many places BUT, wait....the vehicle looks like a double Decker from England, greatly found in London....lets enlarge the photo and now we get why it is not on the left side...this lazy photographer inserted the transparency incorrectly into the scanner as its writing cannot be read albeit English...

My neighbor and good acquaintance Nancy Rexroth world famous photogrpher known as the author of IOWA, a photo book from the 70s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Rexroth tells me to NEVER show, put up a bad photo,only the good ones, which are known by many famous photographers to be a small fraction of their total output. However this is my photo diary, I am not trying to win awards or contests...this diary is MY STORY...far from all of it as some of my story would have some very disturbing images. More so than even the Nepal bus victims photo of those who plummeted hundreds of feet to their deaths. ( I tend to exaggerate, but not by much)

My favorite model, the red double Decker of London...oops,...not a good day.....actually it is the one with the red leggings. E.P.; Elana Polin-Glassman....can't wait to go home to sleep ;)

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Times Square 1984

Times Square 1984
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Full Frame
Kodachrome
Nikon F2
Likely on a tripod or mono-pod

Monday, October 24, 2016

More of Bali Dance Class c. 2000

More of Bali Dance Class c. 2000
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Another example of the students learning from the many dedicated adults who perform the required moves on all sides of the students so the students can accurately and confidently learn the moves over time.

Full image frame from Nikon F2 with Nikkor 24 mm 2.5 lens.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

http://lens-image.blogspot.com/search?q=boys+and+dogs

Monday, July 4, 2016

Paris in September 1989

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Beach scene Nice, France 1985; E.P.'s Gund stuffed bear etc.

Beach scene
Nice, France 1985
Leica M + Kodachrome
Stuffed bear by Gund

So many beaches, so easy to forget this one had rocks and pebbles instead of sand.
Back story of E.P.'s Gund bear will remain untold.

E.P. and bear on train from Nice, France 1985
There's that bear again...hate that bear!

Paris 1985 Bridge over Seine - pont-au-change-paris-bridge

Paris 1985
pont-au-change-paris-bridge
Bridge over Seine
In the evening light.

Pont au Change spanning the Seine
http://www.travelfranceonline.com/pont-au-change-paris-bridge-facts/
From link; " As you can imagine, looking at its location, the Pont au Change is one of the most photographed bridges in Paris!"

I had no idea until today that is was one the most photographed bridges in Paris but one can see why.