dedicated photographer Sometimes when I experiment things go wrong. At times they even go horribly wrong. In this case it wasn’t so bad although there was a minor mistake involved, I forgot to add potassium bromide to ...
to the stars The last couple of days I was in an adventurous mood. Last night I therefore took some night shots with the Rollei on Velvia 100. I think I’ve used my tripod about 3 or 4 ...
head squeeze The pictures I’m showing you today were developed with the help of my robotic agitator. I built it a bit more than a month ago and it helped me develop 36 rolls already. I normally don’t ...
dog entertainment The other day I already thought that I was through with my batch of T-Max 400, but then I found another roll in my bag. And no, I wasn’t happy about that. Today I’ve shot ...
defiance I made up for my downtime and shot two rolls both yesterday and today. The weather is warm, the city is teeming with tourists and so there is plenty of subject matter these days. Yesterday ...
open 25 hours a day Since my health is acting up these days I’m neither shooting nor developing as much as I would like. However, I’m using the downtime to edit the remaining rolls from my last trip. I only ...
cars It could well be called an act of bravery to go out to shoot a roll in 35°C weather! Obviously we didn’t stay out long, but long enough to finish another roll of T-Max 400. ...
the revolutionary Today I wasn’t feeling so well, so I used the opportunity to edit some of the pictures from my last trip. I usually wait a while after developing to edit my pictures so that I ...
typical products The problem with taking breaks in the usual workflow of shooting, developing and editing is that things accumulate. I normally don’t mind the development part of my work with film too much. With a bit ...
shoes Although it was already too hot at around 9.30 in the morning I still managed to go out and shoot a roll while walking along the beach. It wasn’t yet crowded and it was a ...
wet Today I was rather glad that I had my Canon Sureshot WP-1, since the waves were quite turbulent. I still haven’t taken the plunge and tried whether this toy is truly waterproof, but it definitely ...
the godfather It’s pretty much official now: T-Max 400 and I don’t particularly like each other. It has been refusing to cooperate with some of the worst negatives I’ve had in ages. I especially struggled with lots ...
creativity I’ve been meaning to get out with my Rolleicord for a while, but then I’ve been playing with my Canon Sureshot WP-1 and I got somewhat distracted. Today I took the Rollei for a walk ...
shade Today I shot my 277th roll of 35mm film. This number might sound a little random, but in fact it means that I have now shot 10,000 frames of 35mm. As HCB said: “Your first ...
goodbye With summer in full swing I don’t really have any excuses and try to shoot every day. I’m also developing colour film and it’s much faster to heat up the chemicals, in part because the water ...
exercise Last night there was a particularly pagan festival around here where kids jump over fires down at the beach. Last year I shot some pictures with my Zorki 4K and it was difficult, because the ...
bed time It is summer! I can’t quite believe it myself yet, but these days we have been having great weather and I have been making a point of either going for a walk along the beach ...
tango of course The other day I must have mentioned how many rolls I still had to develop. Well, I forgot to figure in the 120, so there are 10 rolls more than I thought! This means I ...
quiet, I’m on the phone I do like to experiment at times and usually those experiments kinda work, even if the first attempt might go a bit wrong. For example the first roll where I tried cold Caffenol had more ...
fruit These last few days I’ve been extremely tired and needed a break. This year I have been travelling a lot, Düsseldorf in February, Argentina in April, Barcelona in May and just a week afterwards this ...
