The Minolta Years - Weihnachten in Venedig, 1978 (Part Two)

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Observing these photographs that I made so long ago, longer than I can recall, I am afraid that any word that I might write down will be doomed to become a superfluous word.

What can my gossip add to these winter shades, to the cold and wetness (so much wet that you can nearly smell the mildew...) of these not far from surreal landscapes, these glimpses of ethereal life?

Aren't these photographs more alive than my vanishing memories?

All photographs made with Minolta cameras and Rokkor lenses

Minolta Autometer

Kodak Ektachrome Film

“Magic Carpet Ride”

I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine

On a cloud of sound I drift in the night

Any place it goes is right

Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

Well, you don't know what we can find

Why don't you come with me little girl

On a magic carpet ride

You don't know what we can see

Why don't you tell your dreams to me

Fantasy will set you free

Close your eyes girl

Look inside girl

Let the sound take you away

Last night I held Aladdin's lamp

And so I wished that I could stay

Before the thing could answer me

Well, someone came and took the lamp away

I looked around, a lousy candle's all I found

Well, you don't know what we can find

Why don't you come with me little girl

On a magic carpet ride

Well, you don't know what we can see

Why don't you tell your dreams to me

Fantasy will set you free

Close your eyes girl

Look inside girl

Let the sound take you away

(Words and music by John Kay and Rushton Moreve)

From the album “The Second” by STEPPENWOLF, 1968

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