modern driftwood In the winter a big storm hit San Sebastian and a flood damaged all the four bridges and part of the beach front. The next day I went for a walk with my Zorki to see the ...
too late I stopped using an external light meter with my Zorki more than a year ago. It just slowed me down way too much and I felt like I was just blindly following the light meter ...
we have to wait outside At the end of January we went to Bilbao to escape the noise of the celebrations of the day of San Sebastian. It was rainy, grey and dark, just as was to be expected in ...
guggenheim At the beginning of the year we went to Bilbao for a long weekend. In winter the Basque country is very wet, so we got rained on quite a lot. However, we still had a ...
take away coffee Before I continue with my usual mischief I actually want to catch up on all my editing. This way I can actually be up to date for once instead of always trying to catch up ...
big hug for grandma I was 16 when I shot my first roll of black and white film. I can’t remember what kind of film it was, but it must have been ISO 100 film, because I came back ...
toros de fuego The Basques certainly have some dangerous traditions. We found ourselves in the middle of one of them at the end of the Semana Grande when we stumbled into a celebration that involved runners carrying wooden ...
libre A new batch of film has arrived and so I have now 25 rolls of Tri-X to shoot, 10 of which are 35mm and 15 are 120 film. As you can clearly see from the ...
bored keeper Being in the Basque Country also has its downsides. One of them is that doing paperwork concerning the Spanish government always involves metal detectors and x-rays. Sure, I can understand the notion. After all I ...
we are getting bigger and bigger This roll had a couple of problems: The first one was a mistake I made during shooting. I thought I had accidentally triggered the double exposure lock of the Isolette by pressing the shutter button ...
anonymous One more roll of 35mm left until the next shipment arrives. I shot the previous roll while observing one of the more dangerous Basque traditions. Well, to be honest I was right in the middle ...
slightly lost I only have 2 rolls of 35mm left, the next shipment arrives only in a week and I’m not shooting any digital until I reach the end of my editing queue. This means that today ...
take me with you I’m still on holiday, so there is nothing much to say. I’m reading. I’m playing games. I’m watching movies and series. In fact I’m not doing much of consequence. Sometimes it rains. Sometimes it’s sunny. ...
Berlin facepalm I left my Canon DSLR with my dad last time I visited him – my luggage was too full of cameras and I thought I’d be coming that way before the move. In the end ...
I’m watching you Last night I actually dreamt that the motor winder of my Olympus XA broke. The thing is, the XA doesn’t even have a motor winder in the first place! When I woke up I wondered ...
what the french toast It is strange to know that after finishing this bunch of Berlin pictures there won’t be any new ones coming for the foreseeable future. I’m not planning any trips to Berlin and I doubt that ...
unrequited love After emptying my SD cards I now know that I have about 9 days worth of digital pictures left to edit. That’s definitely the danger of shooting digital – excessive amounts of pictures that take ...
live ASAP At the moment it’s so hot here in San Sebastian that I don’t even feel like going out to shoot. Extreme weather conditions are never good for shooting. Yesterday we went for a walk anyway ...
monks and brides Most of these pictures were taken when it was already getting dark. The autofocus on my Olympus E-PL3 is rather useless in low light and sadly neither the body nor the lens have any focussing ...
I don’t care Although I’m on holiday I’m still editing pictures. The last time I took a break in editing I accumulated a two month backlog and had a hard time catching up. This time I’m about a ...
