I have been asking Piotr ages for allowing us to show his works in F blog. Over a year of efforts in vain. Piotr, our old friend from Cracow loves to disapear and hide himself as well as his works.
after a while he told me: hmm, maybe say that what I like most is to smoke cigarets standing on my balcony, just in shorts... 
I am sure his pictures says more about him that he or me, or Joanna could say about.
Almost all of what´s left of the great shipyard at Eriksberg in Gothenburg, is the big old gantrycrane. The whole area where the shipyard once used to be, is undergoing a radical transformation: from heavy industry, too a kind of recreational-, and living area, with “City Golf”, health clubs, sushi bars, a “Science Park”, and designer apartments. About 70 000 people will live and work in this new community when all is done.
Here in “one of the most attractive residential areas in Gothenburg” there are some remains of older periods, picturesque monuments like a lighthouse, an anchor, an old boat, cranes, and that big old gantrycrane. These things that used to a have a real function are now merely decorations, or side scenes.
Text and photos: Jan Buse
Let me introduce you to a Polaroid Angel - photographer Elsa Dorfman. I hate to admit it, but I was not familiar with Elsa and her remarkable work until I came across her web site elsa.photo.net. To explore it was quite an adventure and pure joy. But before you go there, please stay for a while here at the F Blog. We will, with Mrs Dorfman´s kind permission, present some great and interesting pictures from her archives. All images are Copyright 1965-2008 Elsa Dorfman.
Elsa says: "My portraits are made with the Polaroid 20x24 camera. There are six of these cameras in the world; in Polaroid studios in New York City and Prague, in the Calument Photo Store, in Berkeley, CA, at the Rowland Foundation in Cambridge, MA., and my studio in Cambridge, MA. One camera rotates among several colleges as part of the Polaroid Corporation College Program. I love the camera and its history. I love the fact that so many people who worked camera are still devoted to it. I love the fact that it is quirky and unpredictable and seems to have its own soul. I use Polaroid Polacolor ER instant color film. ASA 80. There is another color film and black and white film, but I don't use either of them. I stick w/ the film I know!!!"
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1973
Allen Ginsberg
Peter Orlovsky and Alllen Ginsberg, 1980
Elaine Roundtree on Route 99, 1970
Elsa and Harvey, 2006
Photo: Alan Wilson
A pro-China demonstration - Date: 12 April - Place: Edinburgh, Scotland
my favourite place in Fundao - didn't change for almost 10 years, since I am going there. Well, what has changed is the currency - now Euro, before Escudos. Could be easily placed in Postcard from: project, as well.
This is a photo of a 60's building from my hometown, Gdynia - a large port city on the Baltic coast. One of the best places for kids, as this houses an aquarium.
Nitescapes, New York City
As the boiling summer explodes in New York City, downtown takes upon a grotesque dimension reminiscent of Dickensian world. At night syrupy air acts like a photo developer and makes a bizarre pattern of cracks that emerge amid melting asphalt. 
Piles of omnipresent garbage bags and other waste surround dingy buildings and welcome droves of rats. Eternal construction seems to bring even more confusion to the pattern of deterioration that prevails. In the light of murky lanterns sculptures made up of thrown out objects live a peculiar sort of life under graffiti covered walls.
Evgeni Neduv was born in Odessa, former Soviet Union, where he lived until he was 17 years old. He has been taking photos since childhood and learned to develop prints as a teenager. Based in New York City since 1992, Evgeni has also lived in Moscow, Chicago and Rio de Janeiro. He has traveled extensively throughout Italy, Spain, France and Germany. Evgeni photographs street life and is also interested in studio portraiture.
Evgeni Neduv
After many years in Sweden photographer Trinidad Carillo returned to her native country Peru in 1996. Opening on 17 May in Kulturhuset, Stockholm, her exhibition "Braiding" is a project that started in 1997 about her experiences in South America and Europe merging the fantastic with everyday life events.
Photo: Trinidad Carillo
Once again, it's Friday, and here's the Daily Print! I thank all the F Blog authors and readers who have been so supportive of this project. It's hard work and a lot of fun and so gratifying to see the prints going off to their homes around the world.
And also, this seems like an apt image to dedicate to our dear Urbano. He's large; he's got more energy and enthusiasm and more ideas that most of the rest of us put together. He'll say he isn't the F Blog, but he is. He keeps this place fueled, day in and day out -- and the F Blog isn't a 15 inch monitor, it's people. many many people, and he keeps us rollin rollin rollin -- amazing!
Thank you Ulf, and may you have the happiest birthday ever, and a year filled with gifts!
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