Luica’s Blog

It must be my lucky week! My ‘Brauhof Guy’ photo was chosen by FILE Magazine 24 hours ago and I realised that my ‘Shanghai Traffic’ photo was used by SciDev.Net for their China & Climate Change article.

It was great to see my photo on both websites and my credit next to it. Brad said he now understood why the traffic to my website had increased extensively in the last couple of days and I was so excited about it.

I can’t wait until we get to Berlin by the end of July when I can take some photos of a foreign country again. I wish I could take some nice images of London but it’s always more difficult to feel inspired by the city one lives in. I never used to find Hong Kong an exciting to take photo when I was living there but once I moved away from it, I found the city so compelling and full of interesting subjects.

Taking photos of the modern 40-floor building is interesting, but capturing the disappearing old and traditional industries is something completely addictive.

I am so excited about my photo being chosen by FILE Magazine, as part of ‘the collection’. I discovered this website a couple of weeks ago while looking at other people’s photostreams on flickr. It has become part of my everyday online routine - check my emails and messages on flickr.

Back to the original topic of File Magazine. They publish images that treat subjects in unexpected ways, which pretty much sums up what a lomo camera does. This is why it remains my favourite camera of all time and I still take it everywhere I go. I sent a couple of images I took while we were in Munich and they picked one to be featured as one of their headline images.

I can’t wait to take some photos in Berlin at the end of next month. In my mind, it should be quite different from Munich and I am expecting some old buildings, perhaps a little run-down but dignified.