One way

One of the first photos taken back in Hamburg after the vacation.

Helicopter...

...over Berlin.

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...

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.

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.

In memoriam

We visited the World Trade Center in 1995 but stayed at the bottom because of very bad weather. In 1998, we tried again, and this time we made it to the top. Three years later, both towers were gone...

M4-P on Tri-X.

Do not enter

I took almost the same shot of this street in Boston about two months earlier, but as it was on one of the films that were X-rayed, I went back and tried again. In this case, I think the second attempt was better than the first one, so here you have the digital version of a photo that I originally shot on film.

Taken on December 13, 2008 with the M8.2 at ISO 160. Converted to black and white using TrueGrain.

Looking up

This is another one from New York City, but this time from 1995. I like the geometrical shapes created by the street lamp and the buildings. And I also like the creamy-dreamy background drawn by the lens from a foggy night and illuminated by a lonesome spotlight.

Taken on October 5 with the M4-P on Tri-X which was developed in Kodak's HC-110. The lens was a 50mm Summicron from 1973 - the only lens I had at that time.