Through

I think it might be a distant relative of this one.

Tokyo

Taken through a hotel window early in the morning on a dusky November day. The light (on which I admit I had to work a bit) gives the picture a somewhat forbidding atmosphere and at the same time makes the houses look like toys.

Given the recent events, this old photo seemed fitting. And it's from the Ricoh series.

Acela

In an effort to get rid of some of my cameras (not that I have that many, mind you), I sold the Ricoh some days ago. And in a subsequent bout of nostalgia I went through the photos I took with this camera to see if there had been some I didn't do justice to. Here's one I found and I'll probably add a few more in the next weeks.

This one was taken looking out of the window of the Acela somewhere between Boston and New York in 2009.

Another crosswalk

Do you remember the other one? This one is from Hamburg and was taken on November 26, 2008 (when it was almost dark) with the Ricoh.

Fake bricks

It's blurred, it has too much digital noise, the colors are off - and I like it nevertheless. With hindsight, I think it captures exactly what I "saw" when I took the shot.

A narrow side street in Asakusa, Tokyo on November 9, 2008. Taken with the Ricoh.

Plexiglas

A ship in Hamburg's harbor seen through a scratched plexiglas window on September 27, 2008.

Taken with the Ricoh at ISO 100, converted with Silver Efex Pro.

10,000 meters above the sea

Does this photo qualify for the "out of the window" series? It captures a view out of an airplane while we were over the Atlantic. One thing's for sure - these airplane windows have to endure a lot more than your typical window. I think it was pretty cold outside.

Taken with the Ricoh on December 7, 2008. I tried several ways of framing this view in different lighting situations and eventually settled on this one.

Drapes

Ten seconds after I pressed the shutter, the woman living in this very little flat (you already see her head behind the door) came out and asked me what I was doing. I tried to explain that I just liked the combination of the curtain and the light behind the window, but she seemed suspicious. At least she didn't object to me shooting the photo.

Taken in Hamburg on November 26, 2008 with the Ricoh.

Siesta, part 2

This one is from this year's summer holiday on the small island of Wangerooge. Both my wife and I noticed this couple sleeping in their beach chair and the only camera we had with us was her GX200. My wife took a photo but didn't dare to move close enough to them, so I borrowed the Ricoh, crawled closer (feeling a bit like Capa for a few seconds), and shot this picture. Not a great photo, but I think it's kind of funny. And it's already the second photo in this blog of a siesta at the beach.

(And, while we're at it, always be very careful with cameras on the beach! Sand is at least as dangerous as water and it turned out we had to send the GX200 to Ricoh after the holiday because there was sand in the lens.)

ISO 200, f/10, 1/1000, converted to black and white using Silver Efex Pro. The focal length was 7.3mm which would have been 35mm on a film camera.

Update: This photo was published by Spiegel Online on September 28, 2010. I guess I'll rarely have that many people watching one of my photos again.