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.

Night

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

Backyard ritual

After quite some time, a view out of a hotel window again. This time, it's the Ace hotel in New York, and the photo was taken exactly nine years after 9/11.

The title is the name of a song from Miles Davis' "Tutu" album, BTW.

Part four

I only had the idea of a series of views out of windows after working on this blog, but it seems I started pretty early to shoot out of hotel windows. This is a view of the Old City of Jerusalem on August 18, 1995. Those obviously were the good old days when you could still smoke in hotels.

The Nikon with the 50mm lens on Tri-X.

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.

Another window, same hotel

This is another view out of a window, but obviously a very different landscape and a very different mood. Incidentally, this is the same hotel you already saw about a month ago. And it's the same day, the same camera, the same lens, the same film, so I won't repeat that here.

Just a chair, a door, and a staircase

This might be a good example of a photo that seems totally boring and pointless unless you've been there. It was taken during a holiday in the summer of 1995 in the South of France. The scene is located in the Hotel de la Poste in St. Vallier (Ardèche) where my girlfriend and I stayed that night. For me the photo perfectly captures the atmosphere of that place and the light of that afternoon.  For you, this likely doesn't mean anything at all - my apologies...

That was on July 8 and the camera was the Nikon FM2 with the 50/1.8 Nikkor, film was Tri-X.

Update: On July 19, 2011 this picture was published here.