se un agente del kaos I have now finished developing all the black and white rolls that I brought back from my most recent trip. I even developed some from before as well, which means that in total I developed ...
in that other world At the moment I’m experimenting again with stand-development in Rodinal. When I first started with it I actually did a lot of careless agitation, which increased grain. Later I tried to learn from my experiences ...
hide and seek In the next few days I will embark on two new adventures. One of them will be to bulk load some Ilford XP2 with my new bulk loader. After I liked the results of my ...
a star I am slowly but surely getting through all the rolls I have to develop. Of my 17 rolls of my last trip I only have 4 left and then there are only a few rolls ...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 A couple of weeks ago I went to the Frankfurt Book Fair to get to know the landscape of art book publishing. I am currently planning to prepare one or two of my projects as ...
try walking in my shoes At the beginning of the year I set myself the goal to shoot at least 100 rolls of film this year. For a time I was sceptical whether I could make it, although I was ...
strange gifts Today I took my Zorki out for a spin for the very first time since I got my Olympus XA in the summer. It was a strange experience – after shooting so much with it ...
dog pleasures Sometimes I look at the results from a day out and I’m utterly disappointed. Other times however, I can’t stop looking at the pictures amazed at what I somehow managed to produce. Especially with 120 ...
6 reasons why 365 projects are flawed And what you can do to make them better 365 projects are hugely popular, especially among photographers. If you search the web you will find heaps and heaps of blogs that show a picture a ...
adoration While I was travelling I only took very few digital pictures, because I had more than enough film to shoot. When I have the choice, I always prefer to shoot film, unless I have to ...
beached Yesterday I returned from my last trip and it was such a major headache to travel this time. After the strikes of the railway workers on the weekend and the Wednesday before, they actually announced ...
pretty in pink This is only a quick post before a manic bout of travelling in the middle of a strike of the railway workers – it’s the second strike this week. Solidarity with the workers, definitely, but ...
vertigo Although I definitely have a fear of heights, this normally doesn’t keep me from going to high places to have a look down. I just like a railing or fence between me and the abyss, ...
ghosts When I ordered a roll of XP2 a few weeks back to test it, I wasn’t really expecting much to be honest. After all it’s C41 film and abusing it in black and white chemicals seems ...
headache Yesterday I got an Email from EricNed@spidersoftheworld.com saying this: “Hello, please remove me from your photo or me. I am a huge metal spider.” Dear Eric, I would gladly oblige under a number of conditions: ...
in danger There is probably some kind of perverse law in the universe dictating that some things have to happen at the worst possible time. Like for example getting a terrible cold when you’re travelling. Although I ...
smiles At the moment I’m travelling, so I don’t know whether I will have that much time to post pictures. I’ll try to keep them coming. Just before leaving I made a point of scanning the last ...
child’s play A couple weeks ago I posted pictures from a roll of K400 that I shot accidentally at ISO 800. This is the companion roll of Tri-X that also ended up with the same ISO settings ...
jehovah’s witnesses Today I’ll show you the results from my first roll of Eastman Double-X. Although these look really promising the negs were a tad too dense at ISO 250 in my XA when developing in Rodinal. ...
enjoying the wind Last night I almost ruined a roll of film shot on a recent trip. It would have been bitter, because there are actually some cool shots on this one. What happened was that I actually ...
