Saturday, January 15, 2011

Going Loco with Lomo among Locomotives

 *Loco is a Spanish word for crazy.

One day,  for no logical reason, Shafiq wants to go to Gemas.

And for no rational reason, Fedos wants to follow him.

Shafiq, who was used to travel alone and wished for someone to talk to for 160km, took Fedos on the trip. Armed with a green Diana F+, those two amigos set out from the college with the dream of being the greatest lomographers on earth in mind.

To become the greatest lomographers in the world, they somehow deduced that they ought to lomonized the town at the end of the world: Gemas. They wanted to freeze the timeless town to eternity in expired 120mm film. Like Christian crusaders searching for their holy grail, their quest had, for one day, become their life's mission. 

After a diesel-fueled ( and much fat burned, thanks to walking) they reached Gemas. The town itself had already been freezed in time...Many of the old buildings from 1930s still stand strong and the town was populated mainly by Datsuns and Nissan Sunnys of the 70s.

And then they went to the old train station, a gateway to civilization and megapolis of the outside world.

Anyway, this post had became too wordy....Here are those pictures:

















Salam.