Autres directions

Another one from the signs and symbols category.

Summer

Autumn has begun and the last nights were quite cold already, so here's one from when it was still hot.

Crucifix

There are lots of them in Brittany and this will certainly not be the last one I'll show here.

Thunderstorm

I rarely look at the weather forecast, so when I drove home on my bike I got soaking wet - probably serves me right. The only good thing is that I took this photo before the whole mess started.

Ave Maria

The first photo from Belgium in this blog.

Coq gaulois

This is to give you a hint where I spent the last three weeks.

Roof

Picking up some common themes like birds and looking up.

Manhattan Bridge

Let's loosen up the sequence of color photos with an image from last year. See also here.

Helicopter...

...over Berlin.

Forest

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

Escalator up

I seem to have a tendency to repeat titles lately.

Merry-go-round

This is more about what I wanted to see than what I actually photographed, so some post-processing was needed.

The hole

By now, you can probably guess where this is.

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.

Working the situation some more

As promised. A few days later, but still the same building. Now with more birds, though, and without a street lamp.

And this was the first time ever I've used Rollei RPX 400. I'm not sure yet if I like it or not. (As far as I understand, someone bought the rights to use the name. The film is not manufactured by the famous German camera maker.)

The photo was slightly cropped and I worked quite a bit on the tonal values of the sky.

Working the situation

I have an ongoing debate with Olaf about working the situation during which I quite vigorously took up a position against chimping and argued that you can't take the same photo twice anyway.

Of course, I went over the top a bit for the sake of "philosophical clarity." While I generally like Eggleston's attitude of shooting each subject only once, I certainly sometimes try different viewpoints, angles, f-stops, or distances. And there are even cases where I return to the scene of the crime later and pick up where I left.

This is one such example that I already worked on about three weeks ago. It's the same building and I used the same camera, the same lens, and the same film to take a photo from almost the same place. But enough things have changed (including the house itself) to definitely make this a very different picture. Whether that makes it a new one or only a variation of the old one, I'll let you decide.

I'll likely work this "situation" even more...

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.

Frappant revisited

The Frappant building again, about a year later. This is also from the first roll of film I shot with my new (used) M6 TTL which I mainly bought for its 0.58 viewfinder. The M7 will have to go eventually...

And, yes, in case you've been following this blog you will have noticed that I've switched back to the old format only a few weeks after I made the big change. Turns out several people convinced me that they liked it better this way, so there you have it again, with only very minor changes.

Pole

Same place, same day.

Traces

Near the Baltic Sea in Northern Germany.