climbing the lion Quite frankly, I’m sick of feeling sick. However, that sadly won’t change that I’m still not entirely better yet. I try to take it easy and take good care of myself, but I will have ...
gymnastics After the day started at a time that I consider the middle of the night I’m definitely in need of some rest. Travelling always makes me tired. However, I already managed to prepare my computer ...
pain is inevitable After an afternoon of shooting the carnival proceedings I have to say that the whole event is actually a mystery to me. I’m not from around here and so I never grew up with the ...
waiting is playing Today we went to Leipzig for an afternoon and I managed to shoot 5 rolls of film! It was particularly easy today, because we were walking around a packed Christmas market with lots of good ...
consumerism With the usual miserable weather these days I’m surprised that I managed to fill up 3 more rolls today, despite spending most of the day indoors in the museum and the cinema. We went to ...
the hard life Today I gave my new Leica a good workout, three rolls of film full and another halfway through. I already managed to mess up though and opened up the back without rewinding the film for ...
getting it out of the system Today was a very long day. It started way too early in the morning and was a seemingly endless succession of buses, planes, trains and in the end a cab ride. If I have calculated ...
pow pow The last few weeks I have focussed on scanning and editing my film shots and haven’t even touched my digital camera since I came back from my last trip. I am completely hooked on film ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
best friends Even though with digital I don’t need to scan the pictures or remove dust from them, editing still takes a considerable amount of time, mainly because I need to do the selection among many more ...
quiet I guess we all have good days and bad days, but for once it’s actually a whole bad week for me. Every day something happens that throws me off balance. Ah well, that’s how it ...
down they look Just now I saw an article that Ilford film sales have increased by 8% in the last year after declining for many years. This is great news, since everyone who shoots film is always worried ...
