And here’s episode 2 of my catching up with my summer travels.

For his 60th birthday, my dad invited all of his descendants to Sicily, and we all boarded (except my brother who thought taking the train to Marseilles and then boarding a plane to Palermo was a reasonable thing to do) an overnight ferry from Genoa. 

We boarded it was getting dark, and it was confusing, and the kids were hyper, so I photographed on the next day. I woke up at dawn, watched the sunrise (I know shocking!), took a few pictures, and went back to sleep, and then went for it all day…

Let me tell you, the Ferry is such a beautiful place to watch people, there was no internet, and no phone connectivity (I mean there is, but it’s really expensive, make-your-heart-faint expensive) so people get bored, but they don’t scroll, they don’t email, they don’t text, they don’t work, they just lean into the boredom, read a book, do crosswords, play cards, run with their dog on the top deck, etc.

You get the picture, it’s a pre-internet, pre-smartphone world out there, and for a street photographer that’s candyland – from where I stand, digital devices are a nuisance, they have isolated people and they made us boredom intolerant and it shows in pictures…

So enjoy, I’ll do a second part soon…

These are a mix of Holga (with Fuji400, Acros100) Kentmere, Olumpus OM2 (with Gold200) and digital Olympus OMD-EM10 images. I’ll let you figure out which is which…