Revisiting the Past: Havana at 300mm (2018) For the #monomad challenge
I’ve been digging through old files.
Photos I never edited, shots forgotten among thousands.
Now, with limited storage and the need to clean up, it’s time to decide which ones stay… and which ones disappear forever.
Among those files, I found these images.
From 2018.
Back then, I walked the streets of Havana with a Nikon camera (I can’t even remember if it was the D80 or the D300s), and a lens that wasn’t mine: an old Nikon 300mm f/2.8 manual, heavy, challenging, and full of character. I used it to practice. To see what I could capture from a distance, unnoticed, uninvited, uninvolved.
I’ve shared work like this before, street, shadows, architecture, detail…
but this time the lens changed everything. It compressed the world, isolated moments, and demanded anticipation. I had to fail often before I could succeed.
Looking at these images now… it aches a little.
Not because of what I captured or missed;
but because of the context in which they were taken.
That Havana was alive.
There was movement, expression, rhythm.
Today, all that’s left are empty streets, silence, and a fading echo of who we once were.
I’m sharing these frames to hear from you.
To know if, despite the years and the imperfections, there’s still something in them that speaks.
What do these images say to you?
Are they worth keeping? Or just technical exercises from another time?
Thank you, as always, for looking with honesty.
For reading between the shadows.
For still being here.
See you in the next one.
Great find digging through those old Havana shots! 300mm manual sounds like a beast. 💪 #monomad
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