Piccadilly Circus

A bus in London. While almost all photos I posted in the last months were very recent, this is a pretty old picture.

Stepladder

This one is from 2009 already, but it somehow fits with what I'm currently shooting.

Grocery

An old one.

Bag

No comment.

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.

Park

One of the pictures that are more about what you can't see than what's on the photo.

White line

Of course, there's always Robert Frank's magnificent white line which makes all others look like cheap rip-offs.

Raindrops

In the loggia behind our kitchen on a dark and rainy day last year.

Miss

There you have it again. Every now and then a photo which technically is a failure ends up as one that I like because it manages to capture something the "correct" ones don't. This also happens to me with other photographer's pictures and I guess they feel the same because otherwise they wouldn't have published their "misses" in the first place. At the Fotobuchtage 2010 here in Hamburg I had the chance to ask Paolo Pellegrin how he deals with this and my understanding is that his views are the same: if a photo "feels" right then take it, no matter how blurry, skewed, underexposed, or grainy it might be.

As one might have guessed, you can't really fake this. You can of course go out and deliberately use wrong shutter speeds or aim your lens into the wrong direction - but that alone doesn't make a good shot.

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In 1996, a lot of the telephone kiosks in London looked liked this from the inside. That's probably different today - if they still exist at all.

But I'm not sure if currently I'd like to return to the UK and check myself. It seems the authorities over there are now extremely hostile towards photography and treat every photographer as a potential felon. Definitely not something a democratic country should be proud of.

Bruce Schneier wrote a good article about this topic.

Landing

Another one from the dove day.

October 4

Seemed like the perfect picture for today.

Skewed dog

Let me throw in another dog, somewhat similar to this one.

Fire lane

I love this one for its tonal values although otherwise there probably isn't much to write home about.

An old favorite

This one has been hanging on my wall as a real (i.e. "wet") print for years and moved with us to three different flats. I'm not sure why it took me so long to show it here.

This is a streetcar you've already seen.

Partly shorn

I always thought that I didn't know about Shaun the Sheep before 2007, but this photo proves that we briefly met in 1998 already.

CE-50-54

They have pretty narrow streets here, I thought when I took this photo. I probably wouldn't park my Taunus there if I had one.

Siesta #3

One of the first photos in this blog showed a sleeping dog. Here's another canine siesta.

(Hey, and I just realized this was picture #100 with the good old M4-P.)

No diving

I wouldn't have thought of doing it anyway. (You know where this is, don't you?)

Liberty again

Yet another way to photograph the Statue of Liberty. A picture I'm publishing now because it is related to the one of from last Monday in several ways. And it's also one I like in spite of its obvious technical flaws.

M4-P, Tri-X, 1998.