Window

I seem to have a penchant for flowers and plants lately.

Ave Maria

The first photo from Belgium in this blog.

Flower

It somehow looked lonely behind bars.

Fern

Another self portrait, if you look closely.

Window

Seen here in Hamburg two weeks ago.

Forest

More trees, although it doesn't look like a jungle this time. Taken at the A7.

Another tree

More than ten years go, I was presented with a Lomo LC-A. I think it was a joke at that time and I ran maybe one or two films through the camera and then put it away.

Last month, though, I pulled it out of the drawer for a change. Here's how it rendered a tree near our house.

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.

Lines

Overhead contact lines near Hamar's railway station, to be exact. And a bird - which made the shot for me.

February 13, 2010, M7, 35mm Nokton, Tri-X, Rodinal.

I'll be out of town again for a couple of days (and I'll hopefully take a bunch of photos while I'm away), so no new entries for about a week.

Coincidence

Sometimes you're waiting for someone to walk through your frame, sometimes it just happens. Here, I tried to shoot the shop window in the background when the man walked by. I instinctively pressed the shutter when I saw him. When he was gone, I took the photo I originally wanted to take, but now I like this one better.

February 2010 in Hamburg with the M7 and Tri-X developed in Rodinal.

The last color film

You're probably asking yourself if I posted this photo too early. Maybe. But even if it might not be a memorable picture, it is relevant because it marks the end of my very short color film period. I might have been a bit enthusiastic in the beginning, but I quickly found out that getting the colors of scans right is simply too much work (for me) - it ain't fun. If I'll do more color photography, it'll very likely be digital. Whether I'll shoot a lot of digital photos in the near future is another question, though, to be discussed on another day.

This window was photographed on October 31 this year not far away from where I live. I used Fuji Pro 160C in my M4-P.

Green bunker

This really isn't a remarkable photo, but it's here for two reasons:

One is that this is from the first roll of color film (Fuji Superia Reala 100, by the way) that I ever put through my M4-P. I don't know what its previous owner did, but - who knows - maybe it had never seen a color film in its almost 30 years of existence.

The second reason is that this is a picture of an old bunker only two blocks away from where we live which is demolished right now. Every photo captures a little bit of the past, but some more than others.

Taken on June 20 this year.

Simplicity

Like many Italian cities, Genoa has plenty of buildings that decay with a lot of style - something I've rarely seen in other countries. Add the beautiful colors on a sunny day, and there are lots of places you want to turn into photos.

This here is a wall next to a restaurant and I like the "classic" simplicity combined with how the living plant contrasts with the "dead" walls.

M8.2 with the old 50mm Summicron at ISO 160.

Just blue

This is lake Mjøsa as seen from the Hedmark museum in Hamar, Norway on May 1 this year.  I almost feel as if I have to apologize for the boring postcard motif with the horizon in the middle. But the reason I value this photo is that (except for a bit of foreground) it only consists of different shades of blue. And that due to the slight fog the horizon almost looks as if it was painted and not photographed.

Shot with the 35mm Summicron on the Leica M8.2 at ISO 160. Except for the removal of some sensor dust spots and a minimal white balance adjustment the photo wasn't modified in any way and it wasn't cropped either. Posted while I'm in Norway again - Volda this time.