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 ...
the sea the sea It’s been a slow month photographically and I kind of miss the bustle of summer that would always provide me with some kind of photographic opportunity, but I guess it’s nice to slow down again ...
doors Even if I were trying to shoot a lot, it would be rather difficult these days. The streets seem empty most of the time and I also don’t really feel inspired. I guess we all ...
sunny days I’m glad to report that yesterday and today I finished a roll of film each. The roll count this month is still appallingly low, but at least I’m not entirely unproductive photographically. The only good ...
the best pizza After a few weeks of studying Russian I re-watched a Russian movie that I watched with English subtitles at the beginning of this endeavour. Back then I only understood a few words, but by now ...
close to the water With any long term endeavour progress sometimes seems difficult to measure. It’s definitely hard for me to see my own development clearly until I take a step back and look over the work of a ...
deep shadows One of my biggest problems is that I have many interests and I’m not very good at multitasking. I try never to do more than two projects at the same time, because only proper focus ...