street and travel photography
Vielleicht ist es ein Reflex vergangener Tage. Als ich noch Filmrollen nach dem Urlaub abgab und mich darauf freute, die Negative und Abzüge wenige Tage später abholen zu können. Jedenfalls fällt es mir immer noch schwer, im Sommerurlaub ganz auf eine Filmkamera zu verzichten. Und ja, die Bilder sehen auch anders aus als digitale. Rauer, […]
It’s easy to get lost in thoughts in Samothrace in April. Being alone most of the time and wandering through the island. Sometimes the sky is darkened by the clouds, in the next moment the sun illuminates even the most remote corners. Now, that I watch over the film negatives I made with my old […]
This time I wanted to bring just an analog camera with me. The small, beautiful and remarkably heavy Rollei 35 with a Tessar lens. Loaded with Kodak Portra 400 (pushed one stop). Every year I travel with a bunch of good friends to the Netherlands for a few days at the sea in winter time. […]
If you don’t have any problems, talk about the weather. Well, it’s pretty cold – and end of February. The wind’s biting your face. At least the sun’s stretching out, creating sinister games of light and shadow. I wish I had the blood of a Sibirian, but than I most probably would drink more alcohol […]
Yesterday was the 11th of November. The beginning of the carnival session. This year on a Saturday. Myriads of visitors had been announced, and when I left home I saw them: thousands of mostly young people, some of them in gorgeous colorful costumes, a lot of them already drunk. I took quite a long walk […]
From a Cologne point of view the city of Düsseldorf, just 50 km away, is almost another world. Young, nouveau riche, not really Rhineland but more Westfalen. Not lighthearted, but ambitious. Dynamic – in an efficient yet unsympathetic way. The City’s trademark: The Königsallee. One has to visit this famous shopping mile on a weekday’s […]
I still struggle with the square-format of my Rolleiflex camera. As much as I like the fact, that it slows down my photography and forces me to compose the picture with more care, as much as I like this beautiful gigantic viewfinder, which transforms an ordinary object into a piece of art, it’s a painful […]
Actually I wasn’t very confident to take a 35mm film camera with me to take some shots in an exhibition with paintings of Otto Dix, an artist I really like, because he managed to combine an analytical, sometimes very dark and sarcastic view on mankind with a breathtaking sensuality. Anyway, I took my Leica M6 […]
I never regarded the iphone as an adequate tool for taking good pictures. Especially when it comes to my style of street photography, which generally means shooting while passing strangers. But in the recent weeks, I developed a strange passion for using the iphone. When it comes to shooting stills, when you can take your time and […]
It’s April, time again for the Cologne Funfair. I didn’t want to bring my Rolleiflex with me, too many crowds, too much movement. I’m definitely not a Rolleiflex street shooter, just graveyards and forests with that camera: photographing objects, which can’t move too fast. But then again: I had several 120er films in my drawer […]
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