Category: food

• are, bure, boke #2

  The Japanese Provoke photographers’ slogan “are, bure, boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus” applies to many of my images. Some of these effects are intentional, more are not. Many people would dismiss these simply as “bad pictures,” but another view is possible: Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors…

  dereksayer

  May 21, 2023

  adverts, Americana, artworks, cafés, cities, Ex Situ, exhibitions, food, graffiti, hotels, museums, night, people, photographers, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows, street photography

  Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Marathon, Mexico City, New York, Sabah, Texas

• Little Hanoi, Prague

  There are currently over 80,000 Vietnamese citizens and Czech citizens of Vietnamese origin living in the Czech Republic. They form the largest ethnic minority in the country (after Slovaks and Ukrainians) and the third-largest Vietnamese community in Europe. The Vietnamese are the only significant non-white community in Czechia other than the Roma. The Sapa Trade…

  dereksayer

  May 19, 2023

  adverts, cafés, cities, food, markets, people, restaurants, shop windows, street photography

  Prague

• window shopping #6 (New York)

  all images shot in New York City, January 2011

  dereksayer

  May 17, 2023

  adverts, Americana, cities, food, markets, people, posters, reflections, restaurants, sex, shop windows, street photography

• those awful toe rings (Americana #1)

  All images shot in Venice Beach, California, April 2002

  dereksayer

  May 16, 2023

  adverts, Americana, food, people, posters, sex, shop windows, street photography

  California, Los Angeles

• our excellent gastronomic journey in Singapore, Johor, Sabah, and Sarawak

  January 27 – February 21, 2023 Singapore: #1 roti canai at 3.00 a.m. at all-night diner on Bencoolen Street #2 Malay breakfast at Putra Minang restaurant, Bencoolen Street #3 wonton noodles at Tiong Bahru market #4 Chilli Padi Nonya Restaurant, Joo Chiat Place #5-6 white pepper crab at hawker center Singapore: #1-3 Hainanese chicken rice…

  dereksayer

  May 9, 2023

  cafés, cities, food, markets, museums, restaurants

  Borneo, Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore

• curves #2

  #1 Marfa, TX #2 Johor Bahru Feb 2016 #3 Calgary 2016 #1 -3 Clay Ellis exhibition, Third Stake Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, July 2016 #4 Sun Studio, Memphis, TN, September 2013 #1 Waxworks Museum, Melantrichova St #2 Rudolf Kremlička, mural in Fénix Palace arcade, Wenceslas Square #3 Prague Castle #4 Jan Štursa, statues…

  dereksayer

  May 4, 2023

  architecture, artworks, cities, exhibitions, food, geometries, monuments, murals, museums, restaurants, sculptures, shop windows

  Alberta, Calgary, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Marfa, Medicine Hat, Memphis, Mexico City, Prague, Texas

• greenery

  kauri forest, Northland, New Zealand November 2000 #1 Siena March 2001 #2 Tokyo fish market September 2010 #3 Philadelphia April 2008 #4 Houston July 2011 #5 Whangerei, December 2000 #2 Prague June 2004 Mariánské Lázně June 2004 Amsterdam July 2004 Singapore January 2006 #1-2 Garstang, Lancashire #3 Sissinghurst, Kent June-July 2013

  dereksayer

  April 26, 2023

  cafés, cemeteries, cities, colors, food, landscape, Luci, markets, people, rural, sculptures

  Amsterdam, Garstang, Houston, Lancashire, London, Mariánské Lázně, New Zealand, Philadelphia, Prague, Siena, Singapore, Texas, Tokyo

• window shopping #5 (Tokyo)

  all images from September 2010

  dereksayer

  April 24, 2023

  adverts, cities, food, people, posters, reflections, sex, shop windows, street photography

  Tokyo

• the color purple

  loosely interpreted, on a scale of pinkish mauve to mood indigo New Zealand, October-December 2000 (#1-2 Auckland #3 Devonport #4 Kaeo #5 Kaitaia) New Zealand, October-December 2000 (#1 Napier #2 Rawene #3 Wellington #4-6 Whangerei) #1 Florence #2-4 Rome January-March 2001 #5 San Francisco April 2002 San Francisco, April 2002 Los Angeles, April 2002 #1-2…

  dereksayer

  April 13, 2023

  adverts, cafés, cities, colors, food, museums, people, posters, reflections, rural, seas, sex, shop windows, street photography

  Auckland, California, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New Zealand, San Francisco, Wellington

• Pujol

  Pujol restaurant in Mexico City was ranked the #1 restaurant in North America (and #8 in the world) in 2021. We tried it on our visit in February 2019. Memorable. The dishes …

  dereksayer

  March 16, 2023

  cities, food, restaurants

  Mexico City