Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: ikoflex

Here's the same bush from my weird photo collages, but this is just a regular shot of it taken this March (2007), as it was first starting to bloom for the Spring.

Here's yet another shot of Sidliste Haje. This is the shopping area by the Metro station, but I'm absolutely addicted to that pair of buildings in the background with the bridge between them and the clock on the right building. I've always thought it was one of the coolest Communist-era buildings in the city, and probably among the most interesting Prague buildings of the second half of the 20th Century. Why? Look at it. :-)

I like this Karluv Most shot even better than the one above, I would venture that this is probably my best, second best, or third best Prague shot on Facebook, and now you can see it here. :-)

This is one my favorite all-time Prague shots, taken, of course, on the Karluv Most. That's St. Vitus Cathedral and the Hradcany in the distance, of course.

This is Misenska, a historic street in the Mala Strana, or Lesser Quarter, of Prague. At the other end of the street is a Soviet-era street sign in Russian, which gets vandalised whenever anybody tries to fix it from the previous attack. I was there to take a photo of it, but it didn't come out (some other time, I guess).

I rarely take car photos anymore, as I hate the car culture, but this is no ordinary automobile, comrade! This is a Lada 1500. :-) :-) :-) I don't know the year, but I know that these were introduced in 1966, and not significantly redesigned until the 1980s.

This is my first color photo of Nuselsky Most, the tallest bridge in Prague. It doesn't look it, but it's actually both a road and metro bridge, as that spine down the belly of it contains tracks for metro trains. Therefore...Graham! This one's for you. :-)

Here's DPP #8344 approaching Hradcanska in around Feburary or March of 2007. This shot was underexposed, but it was indeed a gloomy day.

Here's another underexposed winter shot, this one taken in Sidliste Haje.

I like to call this "dark blue winter." It originally wasn't supposed to look like this, but because my light meter gave me an incorrect exposure calculation, it came out underexposed and blue. It was taken near the Vojenska Nemocnice tram stop, not because I normally shoot up there (it's really desolate and I'm not convinced the Czech military want you up there taking photos) but because I was on the tram, saw this shot, and was certain to get off to take it.

This is a detail shot of my other DPP #8344 shot, showing the exceptional resolution you can get with medium format film (I used my Ikoflex for this one). It would be better if the scanner had been better, but it was a little bit cheesy.

I took this at the Hradcanska bus/tram/metro station in Prague. The bus is a Karosa, if I'm not mistaken, but instead of working for DPP it works for Kavka, an intercity carrier. I really like the sky in this shot, which is largely the result of a mistake, as I underexposed this shot pretty badly.

This was the most recent of several attempts to get this shot with my Ikoflex. It's obvious that there would be advantages to getting it in medium format, but I had trouble with winding the film too short a distance and overlapping shots, and even this negative isn't perfect since it's dirty and poorly developed. This latter problem is because the lab screwed it up. I hope that you like it, though. :-)

#5002 is the second-oldest Tatra tram still in the DPP fleet, and it is now only used on the historic tram service, #91 from Depo Stresovice-Vystaviste. Even on this service, it usually doesn't work except for on November 17th, the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which is also usually the last day of operations for #91 before the winter break. I was very, very lucky to be in the right place at the right time to get this, as I only have two other photos, both of them horrible, of this tram in service. This photo, also, was nearly a failure, as my Ikoflex was set wrong. I was in such a rush to get the shot that in my haste I pointed my light meter at the sky without even realising it, and as such I barely underexposed. I talked to a photo student, though, who was able to clean up the shot in the full version of Adobe Photoshop (on a high-end computer with a high-end 4000 dpi Nikon negative scanner), and I worked on it a little bit, too, and now I think it looks alright.

This old school has some spectacular artwork on it, and although the artwork is in color I think it looks even better in black and white. The medium format film also helps to bring out the detail on this shot, I think.

I shot this on the same day as my Lomo of the same scene, only this shot was taken with my Ikoflex.

The Berliner Dom (Dome) was built as a cathedral between 1895 and 1905 to replace an earlier cathedral constructed here in 1747, which in turn replaced a chapel constructed in 1465 for the Hohenzollem family. Heavily damaged in World War II, the current Berliner Dom is a simpler and less glamourous building than the original, although an extensive reconstruction was conducted during the period 1975-1993.

The Brandenberger Tor, or Brandenberg Gate, was constructed in 1788-1791 by the architect Carl Gotthard Langhans as an actual city gate, back in the days when Berlin was indeed a walled city with gates. It was the last, and most monumental of all the gates, and has long been one of the most recognizable landmarks of Berlin.