speed Rain, thunderstorms, yesterday some hail, ah, how I love the winters here! At least I get a chance to catch up a little after amassing quite a few rolls to be developed. I mixed a ...
curiosity comes in dots Did I mention that I’m not a morning person? I’m sure I did, since I’ve been getting up way too early for the last 3 weeks. So, this morning, after I met my self-imposed deadline ...
VIPs It was a very busy day of a very busy week. I definitely deserve a proper weekend now. However, since I normally don’t really do weekends, it’s hard for me to just relax and do ...
secretly alien Between my language course, work on the PhD, scanning, editing and the usual ups and downs of my health I’m really quite busy these days. However, it’s all good and seems to be working out ...
italia I get the overwhelming feeling that the days just don’t have enough hours. I have so much developing and scanning to do, need to read, do my homework for language school and a million other ...
getting jumped Today I took my Rollei to the local cemetery and shot a roll of Velvia 100 with it. Alone from that you can already conclude that it was a very sunny day. It’s the second ...
kavo In my efforts to catch up with my excessive shooting habits – I have a problem, I admit it – I developed 4 rolls today, all pushed in Rodinal. I’m done now with all the ...
divided attention Despite all the various things I did today – language school and a tango lesson foremost – I somehow managed to edit a bunch of pictures and even more importantly, I finally finished the interview ...
too early After a couple of weeks of early starts I kinda know that title very well. The weather is so annoying and rainy that I hardly take any pictures either. It could be a good opportunity ...
unhappy Is it me or are weekends unbearably short? I completely forgot what it was like to have an actual difference between weekdays and weekends, so my language course is kinda confusing me now. Tomorrow I ...
not how you do it This evening we went to a little exhibition of a local photographer together with some friends from the language school. I only took 4 pictures today myself, but I got the opportunity to speak to ...
tunnel vision I had a busy day and yet I managed to shoot a roll in between and scanned another one as well. Still, the day never seems to have enough hours and I always seem to ...
testosterone Although my health is a lot better these days because of a new supplement I’m taking, I still occasionally get bad days. Today was one of those days and so I decided to stay home. ...
free hugs I actually posted this yesterday afternoon, but somehow it didn’t work. Since I was on my way out, I didn’t double-check. That’s what happens when you’re busy and do too many things at once! This ...
Kurdish protests in Düsseldorf Film has one disadvantage that I normally see as an advantage: Processing it involves more than just copy & paste. A lot of effort and skill goes into developing film and especially with black and ...
wheels I have been seized by a need to organise my film today and spent quite a bit of time looking over old rolls, adding some basic information to the negative sleeves with sticky labels. For ...
vegetarian kebab Before the Dia De Los Reyes around here there is always a parade with floats, dressed up youths and animals. The kids gleefully go diving after the sweets that are thrown from the floats as ...
Happy New Year 2015 First of all, I wish you all a Happy New Year! At the beginning of each year I always like to take stock of the previous year. Since I have started blogging in 2011 it has ...
walk with a friend It’s the last day of the year and it smells of beetroot in the kitchen. As long as I can remember (and probably even before) my parents made a certain kind of beetroot salad for ...
bliss With all the snow the outside world doesn’t seem too inviting. However, the outside world brought finally my packet of RPX400 – they were only 7 days late! The rolls came together with a 100 ...
