Escalator up

I seem to have a tendency to repeat titles lately.

Do not enter, again

I had a photo with the same title here more than a year ago and coincidentally it was also taken in Boston - even on the same day.

Yep, the first color picture in 2011. I had to work a bit on this one until it looked the way I wanted it to look and surprisingly that made me fancy color again. Don't be surprised if you see more of this soon. You already noticed that I'm currently in an experimental phase, didn't you?

Street level

Olaf tells me this blog is too heavily leaned towards the technical side and I generally agree with him. Nevertheless, this one's from the first roll of film I ever tried stand development with and so I thought I should at least mention that. I was quite pleased with the results and will very likely try this again.

Also the first blog entry as well as the first photo of 2011...

High noon

Taken on April 22, 2010 in Hamburg near the bunker where PPS is located - a company (founded by F.C. Gundlach) many people interested in photography will know. And, no, it was not 12 o'clock.

Taken with the M7 and the 35mm Summicron. Tri-X in Rodinal.

Holland Park

A Tube station in London (where else?) on March 28, 1996. This one belongs to the not too abstract category.

The old Leica with the 35mm lens and Tri-X souped in Rodinal.

Subway and bicycle

A view into a subway in New York. And someone is looking at me.

October 5, 1995. Taken with the Leica and the 50mm Summicron on Tri-X.

Addendum: This photo was shown n the Bronx Banter in April 2011.

The Tube

While entering a subway station in London I noticed many people dashing around a corner in a hurry. I decided to skip a couple of trains, trying to capture this movement instead. I opened the aperture to f/2, set the shutter speed to 1/8, and took a shot whenever someone passed by who was particularly fast.

In spite of the slow shutter speed, I managed to get a couple of photos where the background was as sharp as it would have been with 1/125. This ain't one of them, but still I think it's the best of the series. And it eventually ended up in the BMW spread.

March 27, 1996, Leica M4-P with 35mm Summicron, Tri-X.