Armchair

The "poetic" continuation of the interior series - again without flash.

Window

Seen here in Hamburg two weeks ago.

Straw

Farming geometry in Duisburg, near the Rhine.

Basement

This is where my bicycle is spending most of the nights.

Taken with the XA and without flash and thus a little bit blurry.

Wall

In case you haven't noticed yet, this new interior series depends a lot on the usage of a flash. That's something I never did for more than 15 years (I actually despised it in a way), but for this kind of work it is not only a technical convenience, I also think it provides a certain character I'd like to have in these images.

So I bought an old SF 20 via eBay which I'm happily using now.

(You could of course use a tripod instead, but that would take away some of the spontaneity.)

Roof

Picking up some common themes like birds and looking up.

Bed

I've recently begun to publish a selection of my photos (including some not shown here, by the way) on Flickr. To my surprise, this one turned out to be one of the most popular so far.

Manhattan Bridge

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

Red

Interior number four. From last weekend.

Stepladder

This one is from 2009 already, but it somehow fits with what I'm currently shooting.

A car, somewhere

It is probably fair to say that this is a shot about nothing.

The flag

I've had the XA in my jacket pocket pretty much every day in the last weeks and this is one of the most recent results.

Coming home

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

Bathrobe

Let's continue with the interiors.

Watchtower

Not as old as the one from yesterday.

Grocery

An old one.

Interior

I'm currently having fun with interiors. In fact, I already showed one last month.

Helicopter...

...over Berlin.

Flowers

Near the St Pauli football stadium about two weeks ago.

Plate

Filled with things you probably shouldn't eat right now. Slide film again.

McD

While we're talking about things I did for the first time, this one's from the first ever slide film I exposed "in earnest" - a roll of Ektachrome 100VS. So, I'm obviously a) still experimenting and b) still playing with color. And, yeah, let's just forget what I wrote here...

Forest

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

Bag

No comment.

Projections

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

Escalator up

I seem to have a tendency to repeat titles lately.

The second umbrella

We had the first one almost exactly a year ago. What I totally missed is that the picture from Wednesday was the 300th posting in this blog already. Please imagine you heard some kind of fanfare two days ago.

And this one is the third (gasp!) color picture in a row - something almost unthinkable a few weeks ago. Plus, it's a first in two different ways, but I won't bother you with technical stuff today.

Sailing boats

More color. And like yesterday's picture, this is actually old stuff. What makes it "new" is the post-processing treatment I applied after ignoring these photos for quite some time.

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?

Diptych

My first ever diptych. And in case you were wondering: none of this was arranged or posed in any way.

Shot, by the way, neither with the new Holga nor with one of the Leicas. And the film wasn't Tri-X either...

Through

I think it might be a distant relative of this one.