Acid falls

 

I guess I just keep accidentally dropping my rolls of film into weird vats of toxic radioactive waste.

Why does this keep happening to me?

And my photographs are much too precious to simply throw away, so I fish out the roll of film, dry it off, and take it to the picture developers, the expensive professional ones who will take good care.

That's my story, and if that's my story then this is the first roll of film that I dropped in radioactive acid. You've seen other images, out of order, but here's the first ones, from our trip up to the waterfall above the city.

I am now of course tempted to go back and dip every picture I've ever taken into this fluid, but we'll just set these pictures out for you to look at now and take a break. I have to pack for a wild European apartment search. Trains! Exotic cities! Weird food! Sketchy airbnbs! Who knows what kind of pictures I'll be posting here next.

Well, it'll probably be more like this, but stranger things have happened here at clerkmanifesto.

(note that seems vaguely important to mention: these are real places, but the colors might be a bit... different than they at first appeared)

The fieldtrip

 

Here are some outtakes from my pictures of my clerkmanifesto field trip to the waterfall. I showed you the "normal" pictures of the outing up into the pretty hills around here, but I not only have these experimental shots lying around, but I am off traveling on short notice, so it might be a nice time to share a few of these with you.

My posts from on the road might be even less fancy than this.

Although these are kind of fancy.

Acid flowers

 

On short notice we are racing around the country looking at apartments to rent and trying to figure out where to live. So it's a bit chaotic here at clerkmanifesto. I have to throw things in my suitcase and be prepared to be gone for anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.

I guess it's a bit of a way to see this country. We may finally get out of the south. But to start with we'll be running along the bottom coast for a bit more still.

In the meantime I'll be cashing in on some of my massive photography work I've been spending most of my spare time on lately. We'll start today with a very short series of photos I took yesterday, or maybe even this morning, of some flowers in front of the organic food store.

I took these pictures, and I then dropped the camera in a mysterious radioactive puddle. When I got the photo roll back from the developers this is what came out:

Journey to the falls

We went to the falls the other day. 

At the end of the tram line one could technically take a mile or two walk up the winding road there, if one doesn't mind being killed by cars, or one could take the bus instead.

So we piled on the bus to go to the falls, and just like that we were in the beautiful countryside!

Weird.

What falls? You ask.

That's right, we have two here, the impressive falls in the sky, and the one we went to, which is at a sort of chalet and marks the end of a canal system built in the late 1800's. It is very pretty, and also, and I say this to emphasize its greatness, not to degrade it, it is a bit of Disney, with fake grottoes and scenic cave walkthroughs.

It is an awesome place.

Or at least, very charming. A real tourist hotspot circa 1910, but still charming people.

The falls were turned OFF when we were there, but I turned them on in this picture for you:

For a first set of pictures of this trip, I have just the pictures featuring the whole gang, headed out on a clerkmanifesto field trip. It was a lovely outing and I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time, although I worried a lot, and you can never tell with the fox.