Was für eine perspektivische Erweiterung : Ich streife mit einer Freundin über die Museum Insel Hombroich, ein Gelände, das Natur, Kunst und Architektur in ein harmonisches und konstruktives Verhältnis zu setzen sucht, und gleich nebenan, auf dem Areal der Langen Foundation, einst eine NATO Raketenstation, ist eine Ausstellung mit Werken von Julian Charrière zu sehen. […]
Kategorie: Landscape
My first Experience with SILBERSALZ 500T Film
When I first read about a new 35mm film called „Silbersalz35“ the idea seemed quite intriguing to me: a small German enterprise which used Kodak Vision 3 Motion Picture Film to pack it into normal film canisters. You can load your 35mm camera with it like you would do with a a normal consumer film […]
Greek Summer 2020 with a Leica M6 and different film stocks
When we left the plane in Thessaloniki a couple of weeks ago we had to make a COVID 19 test. Luckily the result was negative, so we left for the Greek island of Samothraki 10 days later after staying at my sisters house. In my baggage: a Leica M6 with a 50mm Summarit 2.4 lens, […]
Turin II – Street Photography with the new Ricoh GR III
Blue seemed to me the color of Turin. Elegant and cold. Not the color of romanticism. And certainly not the color of longing for a spiritual immaterial world, which often is associated with the color ‚blue‘. When you put all colors in one elegant crystal vessel and stir them with a with a shiny mixing […]
Old Danube Vienna – Alte Donau Wien
The old Danube is a former branch of the Danube River. And the whole area is an interesting blend auf urban cityscape and almost rural houses alongside the lake. In summertime my friend and host Gerald rents a small apartment at the shore, to swim every day for at least an hour, sometimes getting tickled by […]
Travelling to Brittany with a Leica M2 – Summary of an analogue experience
Zwischendurch habe ich mich das immer wieder mal gefragt: warum eigentlich habe ich diese ziemlich schwere Film-Kamera mit in den Urlaub genommen, warum teure Filme gekauft, die nach dem Urlaub auch noch entwickelt und gescannt werden müssen? Im wesentlichen deswegen: weil es fast schon eine sinnliche Erfahrung ist, eine so schöne Kamera wie die Leica […]
Brittany with an old Leica (Part III) – Dinan and the Monastery
I really liked Dinan. It’s touristy but in a somehow cautious and sophisticated way. We stayed in a small hotel, named after the French explorer Auguste Pavie. With subtlety and refined taste the owners had integrated asian sculptures and other elements of the East to create a splendid blend of medieval France and Eastern Asia. […]
Brittany with an old Leica (Part II) – Village Fete in Ploemeur
I‘d hoped to experience some great sea food in the Village Fete of Ploemeur, but the whole place was smelling strong from Andouille, a local sausage, which consists of parts of animals I don’t even want to think about. It was was cooked and roasted all over the place. But then again: a spectacular light […]
Brittany with an old Leica (Part I) – Le Croisic
From all the places we visited in Brittany I would say: Le Croisic is it. The essence of o place so heavily formed and influenced and determined by the sea. The coastline. The fields in front of the crushing waves. The heavy buildings with their grey rooftops. Smirking seagulls surfing air streams. Heavy shadows on […]
Last Day in Brittany
So viele Felsen. Eine herrlich zerklüftete Küste. Und dieser endlose Himmel. Ich sitze in einem mit kambodschanischen Preziosen geschmückten Salon eines kleinen Hotels, trinke heißen Tee und schaue auf die regennassen Dächer Dinans. Zwei Wochen Bretagne. Ich erinnere die besten Austern meines Lebens in Cancale (die ersten und vermutlich letzten überdies). Ich erinnere mich an […]