At the moment I’m in the process of editing the last two batches of colour rolls I developed from our trip to Argentina. It’s interesting to see the pictures at last and I’m quite pleased with the results. And at the same time I mustn’t allow myself to fall behind on the rolls that I’m shooting these days, so my experiments with rotary processing Hp5+ in Caffenol-CH continue. The Jobo processed another 5 rolls while I was doing something else and by the looks of them they turned out quite alright. I suspected that I would get much more grain and maybe poor tonality with this kind of processing, but actually the grain looks very pleasant and I quite like the results of the rolls I’ve seen so far. If I keep having such good results I might even have a new favourite! It would of course be laughable to return to HP5+ after all these experiments – it used to be my favourite emulsion some years ago – but if it delivers then I won’t argue with that.

All pictures taken with: Leica M6, Zeiss ZM C-Biogon 35mm f/2.8.
Kentmere 400 stand-developed in cold Caffenol-CL.

It took a bit of doing and some half-hearted trespassing, but I got some shots of the famous slaughterhouse five.

There were fences everywhere and none that I could easily work around, so I only managed a few unobstructed shots.

A number of buildings of the complex have been torn down, but there are still a few left.

What a building!

The rubble tells you that they’ve been breaking things up. This was the final one. It was difficult, sadly.

So, we went down to the river.

Nice view. I’m not sure how the fishing is in these waters.

There is a beach bar at the river. Or several actually.

They all do sporty stuff there … it’s disturbing.

Construction developers tore down garden houses down at the river Elbe, although the area floods regularly. So, the locals sprayed their sign on the wall here: The Elbe belongs to us.

The ship is a hostel I think.

And some beach volley. As I said, too much sporty stuff.

The kids love it though.

And then there are of course the people who go for a walk along the river. There are many of those.

This nice horse wasn’t interested in us at all. Shame, I would have liked some closer shots.