191/365: Zalew Sulejowski

191/365: Zalew Sulejowski, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

July 10th

The Zalew Sulejowski is an artificial lake which formed after a dam was built on the Pilica river in 1969. Its purpose is to be a potable water reservoir for the nearby town of Tomaszów Mazowiecki and also further north, Łódź, where I live. Nowadays Łódź has its own deep water wells, but the Zalew still supplies other towns. The lake covers over 6600 acres and is also used for water sports and blissful summertime recreation. :) Which is what we did this weekend, camping on the banks, far away from resorts and rental places so that for most of the time, we had the whole beach to ourselves.

The lake is also shallow at that point, so I could wade out waist deep to take this picture.

158/365: A Weekend in Amsterdam

158/365: A Weekend in Amsterdam, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

June 7th

Shooting Amsterdam on expired film in a dirty camera results in pictures that make me very sentimental- they resemble the bad quality prints on puzzle boxes, postcards and youth magazines from the eighties. They seem to recall a time when there was no geotagging, no free sharing of terabites of images across the globe- you may have had the one high-contrast, off-colour photograph in your sparsely illustrated encyclopaedia, and that was all you knew. You had to imagine the rest.