Lost! The gestation of the lizard.

It's a new year! I've just got a job and I've moved from my rainy small lovely city to a dry small lovely city. I'll continue with my photographic project in the new place. I know I left the blog for months...that was terrible! But I'm here again. Ready for visiting new places and sharing my photos.

The first comment of the year is for saying I'm still waiting news about "The gestation of the lizard". I must say the photo was abandoned next to the sculpture "La lagartera". Actually, I'm spending some days in the city I left the photo months ago. So I wonder if there is someone there with my photo in a house of this city! So if you have the photo, leave a message please!

The gestation of the Lizard. 

Status: lost.

The Cyclist is lost!

The Cyclist, status: lost!

I "abandoned" the blog last month, but I'm back! Although the story is still the same, no news about the photos on the street. 

On the other hand, although I don't have comment from people finding the photos (supposing someone had found them), I realize I'm getting an interesting photographic series of the photos on the street. When I'm walking on the street for leaving a photo, I look for a special place to leave the photo and usually when a good place appears I have the feeling I have to leave the photo there. Of course, as I said on a previous comment, there are some places I think they're are perfect for my photos and sometimes, something suddenly happens to complete the picture. The place where I left "The Cyclist" months ago it's a good example of that.

I left the photo in a very nice city, a city with a colonial architecture style, with many beautifil buildings having a baroque style, a city I like very much because I lived there years ago. While walking on the sidewalk, I decided to abandon the photo in front of a builiding I liked very much, I liked the pink walls of the place, walls made of pink quarry, typical of the city. Becasue life has many suprising moments, at the time I was leaving "The Cyclist" and I was taking a photo for registering that, a cyclist passed and I got it in the photo! A cyclist in the photo of the cyclist! An nice image that was the result of a nice casualty!

Well, If someone have got "The Cyclist", here you're are another one! And please leave a comment on the blog! I promise I'll be here!

The lost eleventh abandoned photo

Men and Moon

Status: lost!

A new lost photo, ouch! I left the photo "Men and moon" in a circuit for jogging. Usually people go jogging there with their dogs and I was afraid one of those canines might piss on the photo, specially because the photo was resting against a post. Who knows, maybe a dog can feel attraction for pissing on a photo! 

Well, the photo was there and I'm here waiting news about the photo. If you got it, please leave a comment on the blog!

P.S. HBDD!

Two lost images: the 9th and 10th abandoned photos

 "The wave"

Status: lost!

I have a broken leg and it stops me to go out for leaving photos on the street. That's the result of playing indoor football, definetivelly doing sport is very dangerous for health! Now I'm spending the time reading or "watching" books of photography and also thinking about a photographic task for the blog. But before doing something new, my leg has to be totally recovered. While it happens, I'll continue working on the blog and with the photos abandoned in the past months.

A popular proverb says "No one is a prophet in their own land", certainly it maybe has many interpretations, but for me, it means that achieving an aim in your place is harder than doing that in a faraway land. Any way, sometimes I think I own to many lands and I don't know what's the effect of the proverb on such situation. For the case of the abandon of the "The wave" and the "Sea and rocks" photos, the popular wisdom could be true. Those photos were abandonded in one of "my" lands and I don't know nothing about them! I don't know if someone found them! Well, I'm positive, they should be at a good place but the owner of each photo doesn't want to tell me that.

"Sea and rocks"

Status: lost!

The two lost photos depict water, the sea...water. And the photos were abandoned in a city with much water. There isn't a beach in the place, no, no, no; but the rain usually falls on that city, it's a extremely rainy city. Actually, I took care of leaving the photos on the street on a sunny day to avoid  rain and a consequent damage of the printed photo or the frame because of the water. But the care was in vain, when I just left the photos the sky became cloudy and it started to rain! I thought it was part of the game and it's impossible to beat the Mother Earth. So, I covered the framed photo with a plastic bag and hoped someone took the photo soon. I must say the same story happended for the 2 photos! Did you save any photo from the rain? If you did, please leave a comment on the blog!

The eighth abandoned photo is...lost!

A burning plain and its metaphors.

Status: lost!

I told the story of this photo in a past comment; briefly, the photo is a personal tribute to Susan Sontag. Because of that, I abandoned the photo on the place where she lies. Even a note on the back of the framed photo invites to take it, I don't think people do it. On the gravestone, the photo isn't just a photo, it´s an offering, the photo is more than an artistic object, it's a symbolic and sacred object. On a gravestone the most simple and strange thing can be the most honorable object. People don't usuallly take an offering that has been made for someone. So, I must say I'm not surprised because I don't have news about "A burning plain and its methaphors" becasue I think that people have seen the photo think  it's an offering to Sontag. 

In the Parisian cementary where Sontag rest in peace there are many graves with offerings. Some tombstones look like an altar, that's the case of the Serge Gainsbourg's tombstone. Ok, that's a cult place! But there are some others graves with symbolic objects, graves of "no famous people". I was very surprised and charmed seeing those graves, I didn't expect that kind of cult to dead in a French cementery. In México, there is a especial festivity for leaving offering to dead people, it's called "The day of the dead". It happens every year on November 2nd, that day people offer everything you can imagine, for instance typical food, tequila, beer, cigarretes, personal stuff, photos, coins, everything! However the rest of the year there are only flowers on the tombs. I suppose that for many people, whatever time of the year or the place, is important to put something special on the gravestone of their beloved people. I hope someone will do that to me. By the way, if you have the eighth abandoned photo with you, will you tell me that? Will you do that for me?

A quiet fairly tale on a gravestone.

A Parisian Christmas tale on a gravestone.

Lost! The seventh abandoned photo!

I have to eat that prickly pear.

Status: lost!

"I have to eat that prickly pear" is a photo about crazy love. It's about a forbidden fruit, about a dangerous fruit! Whatever...it's a photo I like it. When I walked in front of that red wall, with that window with a heart drawn with a finger on the glass I knew that was the right place to abandon the photo. And next to the window, there were those photos showing actors, actresses, singers, musicians and dancers...it was perfect! That's love! That's a crazy love! Red as a heart, red as blood, and full of music and dance! So, let's go to look for that prickly pear! Who cares if it does hurt? Have you found it? Please, let me know it...

Lost! The sixth abandoned photo!

The Juggler. 

Status: lost!

I'm back! I´ve left the blog because I've been busy looking for a job and it takes time, that's the real life! Althought I prefer to see the life at a photography depicting the reality, my reality. Now, I'm having time to spent on my photographic work, even I don't find a job yet! So, to re-start with the comments, here is another one with a lost photo, the sixth photo, aka "The Juggler". This photo was abandoned on November 25th, it was 2 months ago! And I don't have news about it...Did somebody find it? Yes, no? I hope someone did it...I don't know, maybe the person who found the photo doesn't want to leave a comment, and that's all! If you, my dear reader, could give me advice about how to make people to write a comment, please let me know it! Ideas are welcome! I'm going to think about it too!

Wanted: Fifth abandoned photo

Fifth abandoned photo: Huichol woman carrying bags.

Status: lost!

The fifth abandoned photo is still lost! Have you seen it?

Fourth abandoned photo, third abandoned and lost photo!

Fourth abandoned photo: Jesús, Martha and the tesgüino.

Status: lost!

Another abandoned and lost photo...Maybe it's still very soon to get news about it and I'm so impatient! But well, I'm going outside, this time I'll take 3 photos with me and I'll see what will happen with them!

Third abandoned photo, a lost photo!

Third abandoned photo "Martha and the sacred drink"

Status: lost!

Bah oui! Here is another abandoned and lost photo! It's the third abandonded photo "Martha and the sacred drink". That's the story. Two weeks ago I was in a very nice city, a city of big palaces and classical café bars.  I liked the city because walking along the streets you see it´s a place plenty of music, sculptures, big museums and art galleries, you feel art is in the air. I thought the place was very ad hoc to leave a photo and I did it.

I left the "Martha and the sacred drink" photo because I wanted to leave an image uncommon for people there. Well, I think it's uncommon because huichol culture isn't well known around the world. Even in México people don't know about the huichol culture. For me, it's a way to show the richness of the indigenous Mexican culture. And it's an image to think about the importance of maternal cultures not only in México but also in all other countries.

Well, to date I don´t have news about "Martha and the sacred drink", but I know the photo moved of place. The explanation of that is here. I must say I have some rules to leave the photos, a rule is "Don't come back to the street I leave a photo". Although in the case of the third abandonded photo I broke this rule and I came back by chance to the street I left the photo. Everybody knows humain being has weakness and I had mine. So, I turned my head to the exact same place where the photo was last time I saw it...but the photo wasn't there! Of course I have so many questions about the chance of the photo! I mean, the photo wasn't there! Did someone take it? If someone did it, why them didn't write a comment in the blog?  Maybe the photo finder doesn't want to leave a comment, or maybe someone took it and threw it in the trash? But I know the photo moved! I know it! And that's the reason why I prefer don't go back to the place I left the photo. If I know the photo moved, I'll be desperataly waiting news about the photo! And that's a mental torture to me! Sometimes, doesn't know about something it's the best way to be calm. But I'm not calm and I want to know about the third photo!

First abandoned photo, the first lost photo!

First abandoned photo "Fighting and dancing".

Status: Lost!

Well, well, well, I left the first abandoned photo on the streets weeks ago and I don't have news about it! It seems the photo is a lost object! My head is full of questions about the end of the first abandoned photo story! Moreover, the first abandoned photo itsn't the only one lost photo! Other abandoned photos are a lost object too! Well, I think it's a good idea to show the place where I left the lost photos. I won't tell you the city I left them, but I´ll show an image with the photo such as left it on the street. To open the "Lost abandoned photos" label, here is the first image! If you have some information about the first abandoned photo, please let me know it!