Coq gaulois

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

Barbapapa

Looks like we haven't had a dog for quite some time.

Strange fruit

Organic food, by the way. And the photo was taken only a few meters away from where the film was eventually developed.

(You noticed the song title, didn't you?)

Smiley

"Oh no! Not another new camera!" Yeah, you're probably right. But it was the kind of offer you can't refuse - an Olympus OM-2n for about the same price I paid for the Holga. What would you have done?

Anyway, this is the last photo before the summer break. In case you'll get bored in the meantime, you might want to check out which of my pictures other people find "interesting" according to Flickr.

Angel

My father-in-law was so nice to give me an old Rolleicord Va which he stopped using a long time ago, and so we have another new camera in this blog. It's a bit hard to get used to, but I think I'll eventually be able to cope with it.

For this particular picture, the square format wasn't exactly what I wanted, but I think it works anyway.

Legs

Another one from last week.

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.

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

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