Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: red

Given the long history of Greece, and the long history (contrary to public perception) of red brick construction, this fragment of brick could be 1 week old or 2800 years old (or whenever the Greek alphabet came into use). I'm assuming this brick isn't too old, since the lettering isn't really worn off of it too badly, but on the other hand, if it's so new how did it get onto the beach? It's an interesting mystery anyway.

I'm fairly sure that this is either a castle, school, barracks, or monastery in Liberec, but I have to do some more research. If anyone can help me, I would be grateful.

Husova is a long street that you can look down from one of the parks, and at the end you can see the so-called "Red Church." Better yet for railfans, you can watch the trams running up and down. :-)

Hrad Pecka is the castle for the small town of Pecka. Notice the red soil in the fields. That's typical for this region of Bohemia, Kralovehradeckem Kraj, and rarely found anywhere else in the world, at least according to my Czech travelling companions. The town dates back at least to 1322, although I was unable to locate much historical information except for here: www.obec-pecka.cz/page_uk.php?p=uvod

I had to ask a flatmate what this is, but I appears to be a species of clover called a "Jetel Plazivy" in Czech. The nearest thing I could find in Wikipedia in English seemed to be a "Red Clover," but I don't know if that's what this is. In any case, I was more taking the photo for the bees. :-)

Cesky Krumlov is great. :-) Although it's clearly a tourist town now, the medieval streets and buildings are absolute eye candy, and if there's anything to be criticized, it's that the city is too well-maintained and sanitized. This building was an exception, which is maybe bad for the city, but good for photographers. :-) I love the way the ancient details of this building are exposed by the flaking paint, which itself is still quite a brilliant reddish brown. The contrast is also good, although in honesty I Photoshopped it a bit. In general, this is one of my favorites.

I don't know much about the heritage of this building, other than that obviously it's now used for offices, as you can tell by the plaques by the door. It's probably Baroque at the newest, though, judging from the elaborate decorations and the uneven roof line.

Here's a more detailed shot of the decorations/carvings/sculptures on the red building. The woman in the bottom centre is supposed to be the Virgin Mary. For more information, see the comments on the larger version here: www.flickr.com/photos/14629221@N00/309738615/?#comment721...

This shot involves, of course, far more than cross processing. I started with expired Fujichrome Astia 100, shot it with my Lomo 135BC, and then had it cross processed before having it scanned cheaply, and inverting it in Photoshop. I also cranked up the contrast a bit. Normally, of course, cross processing doesn't have effects quite this extreme, though, so I'm assuming that this is a result of the film being expired. The camera also has some minor light leaks, but not as far as I know on this frame. Expired color film does, after all, usually produce pink or red images, regardless of the developer used. Any tips on how I can reproduce, or prevent, this effect in the future would of course be welcome.

Here's one of my most alternative rail shots of all time. I'm not sure if you'll like it, but I figured I'd give it a try. This is, of course, again from my cross-processed roll of Fujichrome, but this time with the reds cranked up so high in Photoshop that it resembles a painting.

This shot was one of the less wild ones from my first cross-processed Fujichrome. The original had a strong Magenta cast, just like the rest, but the more interesting feature was the way in which all electric lights (as on the whole roll), streaked to the right. Originally, I wasn't sure if this was the camera or the cross processing, but I'm now aware that this is the film transport being out of sync with the shutter. If anybody knows how to fix this please help!! It does create the feel of motion, though, even though it wasn't the motion of the tram which created the trails. Also, of course, I'll state the obvious and point out that I converted the photo to black and white.