This is the cemetery of Monastir in Tunisia. I was there on a 1-week "sun and fun" vacation in 1998 and had a compact camera with me. Just in case, you know. Because you just don't go on a vacation without a camera. With some film in it obviously, I don't remember which, probably some Kodak 200.
The photo is a scan from a 4x6" (10x15cm) print and pretty ugly, it's one of the few photos that I scanned to have them in my library on the computer because I love it so much. It's also terribly flawed with lots of dust and spots and everything I didn't really care about when I scanned it many years ago. The photo is unaltered and just the way it was scanned.
It was evening, the sun was setting, we walked past that cemetery, and this peace, this silence, this holiness, the whole mood... I wanted to capture it. The photo probably isn't the greatest success in doing so for anyone else... but for me, it is.
I always liked making photos and capturing these beautiful moments. It just took me a very long time (until the advent of digital cameras, that is) to really begin and pursue it more thoroughly. Things started to take off late 2006 when I borrowed a DSLR to play with a little bit, but the real beginning is this photo - made out of the desire to capture something beautiful to keep it, just for myself. I made photos before and after that. Pointless polaroids and senseless snapshots. But this moment was special, and so is the photo.
This is a copy of my post on Google+.
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