thumbs up Roll number 3 with my new Nokton 1.1 has a shot that completely convinced me of the lens. Yes, it can be hard to focus. It’s also big, intimidating and heavy, and yes, things get ...
thirsty Many times my experiments in photography are motivated by the question “what if?” It all started with the question: What if I were to shoot a picture a day for a year? What would happen ...
pretty in pink With sudden sunshine today I obviously felt the need to go out and shoot again. Such sunny days are rare around here in winter and quite unpredictable too. I still had ISO 400 film in ...
chess masters These days every morning seems surpass the previous one in greyness. Oh yes, it’s ugly out there: dark, cold, windy, rainy and it certainly isn’t any fun to go out and shoot in this kind ...
stop For those of you who have been following my blog for a while, you probably know that I have a preference for classical grain film. My favourite and most used emulsions – Kentmere 400 / ...
from above These days I’m testing my new lens thoroughly and making a good effort to get used to it. It’s a bit strange to have to point this big lens directly at people and actually focus, ...
a red moment When I was looking through my work from last year I could see that I reached a certain visual coherence despite a significant amount of experimentation on my part. The year before it seemed to me as if ...
perpetually grumpy Today I finished the first roll of 120 this year. Although it was sunny outside it was still rather uncomfortable and windy, which made it a little annoying to shoot. Despite the dry weather of course ...
afternoon light When I was looking for a fast lens, I had several options to choose from and I wasn’t quite sure which one to take. There are many fast lenses for the Leica and most of ...
sneaky Yesterday the impossible happened: My Rodinal apparently experienced sudden death and took one of my rolls with it. I would have been annoyed under normal circumstances already, but in this case it was even more of a ...
impatience After ordering my new Nokton f/1.1 I actually had to wait a while until I received it in the mail. When I finally got my hands on it after more than a week of impatient ...
Happy New Year 2016 First things first: I wish all of you a Happy New Year! It’s 2016 now and like every year I wanted to give you the traditional new year’s post with pictures from the previous year. Although I ...
too cool The weather forecast promises several more days of rain. I guess that’s what it’s like everywhere in autumn, so I shouldn’t complain too much. I’m using these bleak days for more progress on my journey ...
hide and seek I had a difficult couple of weeks and have been taking it easy to help my health recover. I still keep myself occupied with learning Russian and I think I’m making good progress at least on ...
painted face The other day I realised that the constant companion of a camera with a light meter has not worsened my ability to guesstimate, but improved it. Thanks to the light meter I can always confirm ...
hi there Occasionally I get very fed up with my health. Especially these days it keeps acting up and it’s hard to figure out why. However, I have come to understand that with chronic stuff it sometimes ...
goal Occasionally the leader of bulk loaded film tears in the Leica at the beginning of the roll and I might end up shooting a roll of ghost pictures into oblivion before I notice. Today I ...
no dogs allowed Today I finally managed to get x-ray protector bags for our next trip to Argentina in December. They had been always out of stock, but now they’re finally on their way to me, together with ...
attention The other day we went for a little walk on a very warm and summery day – it’s only the beginning of November after all – and I had the opportunity of shooting some ISO ...
hands up The last two weeks I’ve been taking it relatively easy. Although I’ve spent quite a bit of my time studying Russian, I made sure I had tons of time to relax to watch series and ...