Tree

A very simple picture that I took more than two years ago and almost forgot. It recently began to grow on me, though, if you allow the pun.

Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA.

Night

From the hotel window series. Maybe you'll recognize the curtain.

Staircase

A bit more than two weeks ago I was in Cambridge again. Probably for the last time, but who knows...

Yogurt

I'm unearthing a couple of older color photos quite some time after I stopped taking them. Maybe I'll try again one day.

2 liter bottles

One more from October.

INRI, 20% off

Seen in a shop window in Cambridge a few weeks ago.

Shadow

It's some time ago since I posted the last self portrait and I'm not doing many of them anyway. But this one I really like. And please note that the light was exactly like this on that day - no dodging and burning or anything like that.

The eye

Rhymes with this one in a way, although the former was taken in winter while this one I shot last Saturday when it was almost still summer.

And while about a year ago I thought I wouldn't return to the USA any time soon, I've been there three times already in 2010.

A few minutes after I took this picture, I had a very interesting meeting with Bill Franson who is a great photographer and now finally also has a nice website.

Pavement

January 31, 2009 in Cambridge.

M4-P, BW400CN.

By the way, I already mentioned Geoff Dyer who wrote a whole book about the idea that photos tend to "reappear" over and over again. I read a book last night and came across André Kertész' Lost Cloud photo which I had probably seen before several times. But yesterday was the first time I realized that I had aped this photo more than half a century later.

Office view

After a longer break, this is part no. 7 of the window mini series. The view (obviously in winter) out of an office I used to work in when I was in Cambridge in November 2009.

The M4-P with XP2.

Two joggers

Boston and the Charles river as seen from Cambridge, MA. On a sunny Sunday afternoon, this area is flooded with joggers.

Leica M4-P loaded with a roll of X-rayed Tri-X, October 2008.

Only

A very nice and sunny morning in Cambridge, MA, albeit very cold. In fact, it was so cold that I was happy to have my trusty M4-P with me. I doubt that the batteries of a digital camera would have lasted very long.

Taken on January 31, 2009 with Kodak BW400CN. And in case you think that I'm kind of "promiscuous" with films - I'm not. Except for my very first year of photography (and a few indoor shootings where I used Neopan 1600) I've always used Tri-X until my preferred lab stopped developing films in 2008. Only then did I start trying out various C41 black-and-white films as replacement candidates. I'm not even sure if I will stay with one of them. Maybe I'll eventually start doing my own development again and then I'll of course return to Tri-X. So, stay tuned...

Part 3

Yet another view out of a window - this time from a boring chain hotel in Cambridge, MA on December 8, 2008.  This seems to become a kind of a series.

Taken with the M8.2 at ISO 320, converted using Silver Efex Pro.

The familiar arrow

Due to my work, I've been in Cambridge, MA a lot in the last years. In January 2009, during what was probably my tenth stay there, I stood outside on a snowy and cold day to smoke a cigarette and suddenly decided to take this photo of a parking garage I had seen thousands of times already. I was pleasantly surprised when I eventually saw the developed picture with its nice tones and the arrow contrasting with the curved line of the lane.

I already had the M8.2 at that time but only had my M4-P with me. Film was Ilford XP2 which I had used for the first time in fifteen years.