Vintage Postcard Series - San Francisco

The images on the left are the photos I recently took in San Francisco. The images on the right, are the fronts of the vintage postcards on which my photos are printed. Notice that there is a one-cent stamp on the top-left card. I'm searching out frames which are viewed from both sides, so cards can be visible with past and present shown.

I'm back

Okay, that was a long summer away, but I'm back with lots of new photos. My new series is printed on the back of vintage postcards (thank you Annie for the latest batch from France). When possible, I match the country of the card and my image; and on rare occasions, I have even taken a photo in the same area (Golden Gate Bridge as example). What I find intriguing are the hand-written messages from the past. I purposely let portions of those show through my work so the two stories, decades apart, can intermingle with the viewer being the interpreter. I found this red bike while walking in Zagreb, Croatia.

Prayer rugs

 Prayer rugs stacked in the Dervish House at Duna, Herzegovinia

Two layers of Kim Klassen's 'dream it' applied.

breakfast

textures

A few of the varied textures found on the island of Veli Drvenik, Croatia

red bike

Walking along the streets in Zagreb, Croatia, I spotted this charming red bike in front of a shop. I wish now that I would have gone in to learn the significance of those miniature clothes hanging on the wall (if there was any).

Mostar, Herzegovina

The medieval town of Mostar developed along the Neretva River in 1474. The men that guarded the suspension bridge over the river were called mostari (bridge keepers). The new stone bridge (Stari Most) was completed in 1566. In November of 1993, the bridge that had united Mostar for over 400 years was destroyed by dozens of tank rounds from the Croatian side. The bridge you see here was reconstructed in 2004.