Where’s Lepos?

Space explorer Pigeon space chase

I took these photos last summer while in Toronto on a graffiti walk with local flickrite Wacky Doodler. I didn’t realize at the time that this funny little character, named Lepos, is part of an international street art campaign. There have also been sightings of him in New York, Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Prague. There is an amusing article from the Wooster collective on How to plan a viral marketing campaign” using the Lepos street art as an example.

Spiral shadows on the tiles

Spiral shadows on the tiles

Taken in a doorway in Gastown with my super crappy Canon Powershot A200 digital camera. I was really surprised by how decent an image I was able to get from such a low quality piece of equipment. Go figure. I call it my digital trash cam…

A two dollar shot

A $2 shot

This is another example of a surprisingly sharp Holga photo. To explain the title of this photograph, in order to be allowed to take this picture I had to pay the gentleman playing the guitar. I suppose I could have gotten away with stealth shooting him, but I never feel good about doing that sort of thing. I really wanted this to turn out well, so I decided to pay the money. It was worth it.

From the shadows

From the shadows

In preparation of taking a break from Flickr for two weeks I had to select a series of images to pull from Flickr to post on my photoblog. (The break was at the suggestion of a friend, and it is a long overdue thing I’ve wanted to do. ) It was interesting having to choose eight or nine images at the same time, because I usually tend to do this spontaneously as I create an entry.

This image was created in Adobe Photoshop from three separate photos. It looks dramatically darker on the monitor I’m currently viewing it on, which gives it a completely different atmosphere than I’d intended – more menacing than mysterious and ethereal.