Wandse

That's the name of a little river that runs through Hamburg. This is how it looked from a bridge last week when the mixture of reflections and shadows caught my eye.

Colors courtesy of Porta 160VC.

Coming home

My head is empty - no idea what to write about this one.

Projections

Another view out of a train window. What I like here is how the cabin's interior is "projected" onto the lake.

Tracks

Another one showing the Elbe. From the second roll with the Holga, taken on Good Friday.

Harbor

A part of Hamburg's harbor as seen through the window of a bus on a foggy morning a few days ago.

Unrelated to this picture, I'd like to recommend two small photo books that I recently bought: One is Tangente by Laurent Chardon and the other one is Elsewhere by Øyvind Hjelmen. Both show only photos in square format which is something I didn't like very much for years. But it seems I changed my mind recently.

Frozen

The Elbe again, about a week ago when it was still mostly frozen.

This is the second photo in this blog that has different curves applied to different parts of the image.

2 liter bottles

One more from October.

The Sea of Galilee

As seen from the Golan Heights - if I remember correctly. The guy with the megaphone is a professor of mathematics who gave us a tour while we attended a conference on logic and set theory in Haifa.

The hand on the right side of the photo of course wasn't intended to be there, but immediately when I saw it on the contact sheet, I knew I liked it.

No diving

I wouldn't have thought of doing it anyway. (You know where this is, don't you?)

Another fence

Taken in New York, like the first one. On March 25, 2010 with the M7 and the 35mm Summicron on Tri-X which was souped in Rodinal.

Ferry

On the Staten Island Ferry again, twelve years later. This is one I forgot in my NYC 2010 mini series although I like it a lot (maybe because it was shot through a window).

M7, 35mm Summicron, Tri-X, Rodinal.

Liberty again

Yet another way to photograph the Statue of Liberty. A picture I'm publishing now because it is related to the one of from last Monday in several ways. And it's also one I like in spite of its obvious technical flaws.

M4-P, Tri-X, 1998.

Blur

Lisbon in 1999. This is a picture I had selected several times and then turned down again because it is blurred and wasn't properly exposed. Still, there must be something to it because I look at it over and over again. I've now finally decided that I like it.

M4-P, Tri-X.

Elbe

At the Elbe river on New Year's Eve 2009.

M4-P, 35mm Summicron, Tri-X, Diafine.

Snow

Winter is finally over, so here's a reminder how it was this year - the snow-covered Lake Mjøsa again. (And while I criticized myself for shunning the portrait format two months ago, I realize I've used it quite often recently.)

The M7 with the 35mm Nokton and Neopan 400 in Rodinal.

View

My tourist photo for this week is a view of Manhattan as seen from Liberty Island. Taken on on March 10, 2010.

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

Jogging trail

Again a part of NYC seen through a fence. This time it's Central Park and the photo (shot in 1998) somehow reminds of the Marathon Man.

The M4-P on Tri-X. (Incidentally, this is the 100th Tri-X photo in this blog.)

The door to the river

The river is the Spree and this was near Berlin's government district.

Taken on a cloudy day (March 3, 2010) with the M7 and the 35mm Summicron. Tri-X in Rodinal.

Lake or desert?

Lake Mjøsa again. On February 14, 2010 it was completely frozen and covered with snow. There was no way to figure out you were walking on water unless you knew.

The M7 with Neopan 400 (yes) in Rodinal. The lens was a Voigtländer 35mm/1.4 Nokton which I bought last year on a whim because it is so cheap compared to a Leica lens. But although it's a fine lens I rarely use it, so for my recent stay in Norway I decided to take it with me as my only lens.

Plexiglas

A ship in Hamburg's harbor seen through a scratched plexiglas window on September 27, 2008.

Taken with the Ricoh at ISO 100, converted with Silver Efex Pro.