Black and sad Burned Sataf forest photographed on 120 film.
Hello here. Before the start of my narration, a few personal thoughts about my blog – this exact place, where possible some of you stopped for a few minutes to read this post and possibly stopped as well some short or long time before to read my previous posts. A few weeks ago I had to renew my Domain Name with the goal to keep this site available online. After many years of maintaining it, for the first time I was in doubt to continue or I had enough of this adventure. This kind of personal blog is already lost the interest of the public. People massively moved to payable for the blogposts crypto platforms like Hive[.blog] Steemit, Noise[.cash], read[.cash], Blurt[.blog] and some others. (If you are still aware of these, write me and I will explain what these are about). After some hesitation, I renewed my domain name registration and ended these doubts for another few happy years. I’m still sure that the personal site and the blog site as well are more important than any IG or FB for every Artist.
Just one week before this visit the place was green, happy, and full of the natural energy of the forest growing on the hill. This hill, like many others, is part of the huge Jerusalem mountains area, located close to Jerusalem and spread to the south, west, and east of the city. The huge fires took us by surprise, as they do every single year and for a few days, firefighters worked very hard with the goal to stop the raging fire before entering the city and the numerous towns and villages, located everywhere. All entrances to this area were closed for the people not living there and not involved in extinguishing a fire.
When I went there, the area was open to all visitors. There were not many. I found myself walking alone and was happy not to see the onlookers. I felt the heat of the burned earth. It still was hot and the white ash-strewn. Yes, all this was too surrealistic – the high layer of the white ash. In some places already blown away by the strong wind. In other places like this – it still was here. I almost cried. The feeling of the massive loss was so strong and unbearable. These forests always were densely populated by wild animals. I have no idea where could they go, but I saw big flocks of black crows, who know better where to look for animals killed in the fire. I will work on the body of work with more images from the burned earth and will write and publish my “report” later this week. Just a few words about the technical part of this post. I used Fuji GA645 medium format camera, Rollei RPX400 film and Kodak d-76 developer diluted 1:1. Now the main part of this post – the photographs. Enjoy and please check my previous or the related posts.
Powerful, powerful photos that mean something serious and tell the story we try so often to ignore or feel so helpless about. Please keep you blog going, although I understand why you hesitate. Your blog, imo is very good, it visits something that needs to be seen. I admire your work so much.
Hi Paula ! Thank you for your always careful reading and for the kind words. I will continue with my posts and the stories about my local visits and the activity around me. Have a nice weekend !
It was earth day yesterday.. Victor thank you for these photographs which has so much meaning for it.. I would have cried if I was there.. Really something to think of it.
Thank you Naomi. Glad to see you always around. Yes the Earth day which people are celebrating but continue destroying it. ;-(
Sometimes new growth can only happen in the heat of fire. I don’t know why it took me so long to find your site but your work is beautiful.
Thank you for the kind words. im still visiting this forest with the goal to see the nature’s changes. Right now the mount os almost empty of the trees. My site is based on WordPress but managed differently by me. So better to see my posts there and not on WordPress application that is dont know to show the whole posts.
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