OLD stone cafe Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is a café known as the " Stone " café, probably built at the end of the 19th century by the greeks who populated this place called at Cunda island off Ayvalik, a small town othe Aegean. Perhaps all of it's glass windows used to be tinted, and when they broke they were replaced with ordinary glass. Of course the plastic chairs are not very elegant, and perhaps one day some new owner will have more taste, and replace the windows end the chairs. But in the meanwhile it still attracts many photographers, and this does not please the owner of the cafe. Especially when we display our tripods among the chairs, he believes that the customers will leave his shop, and makes problems.

Nowadays Cunda island ( Also known as Ali Bey island ) is united with the main land. I believe that the café, although it probably lost it's original appeal, still retains some nostalgy.

bantonbuju, MKING, sarpedon, egemenyilmaz has marked this note useful

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bantonbuju (49014) 2005-09-05 4:32

merhaba izzet, a beautiful study of shapes, shadows, light play, plus the cafe looks to be a cute place itself; very nice work;
best wishes, jerzy

MKING (3050) 2005-09-05 7:07

Pleasant atmosphere, nice and bright against those windows. I suppose it would be nice if there was one specific subject to lock onto but the scattering of tables and the colourful glass make for interesting places for the eye to roam amongst.

You might want to double check the scan, the post processing or the colour space conversion on this one-- I'm seeing a lot of banding in the darker shadows and the ceiling where there should just be smooth transition from midtone to shadow. It looks electronic rather than something on the film itself.

sarpedon (352) 2005-09-08 12:12

Tas kahvenin cok guzel bir resmini cekmissiniz. Renkler ve golgelerin uyumu harika. Elinize saglik.

recepyuksel (17786) 2005-09-09 6:05

Ne kadar ferah bir fotoğraf.. Renkler müthiş. Grafik çizgiler estetik. Hele yerdeki renkli yansımalar. Hepsi çok çok iyi. Gözünüze sağlık.
Selam ve sevgiler

mitternacht (1836) 2005-09-12 3:47

I really like how the light falls with all the different shadows, the mirrors and the colored windows. Plastic chairs can have their charm too. Maybe I would also be disturbed if someone walked in with a tripod into a café where I was sitting :).

egemenyilmaz (464) 2005-10-07 7:07

Vallaha oyle guzel ki isik, plastik sandalyeler bile seramik gibi cikmis... Duvardaki aynadaki yansima, renkli camlarin yere vuran desenli golgeleri, hersey cok guzel...

Saygilar sunarim... :-)

Kurtkan (35) 2005-10-10 11:21