silent observer Every week I try to at least shoot 3 rolls of film, two rolls of 35mm and one roll of 120. Sometimes I shoot way more, but some weeks are difficult. My health has a ...
golden hour My office is slowly taken over by negatives that still need to be scanned. By now it’s several different piles from different places and in different formats. I’m looking forward to some rolls, dreading others ...
autumn Yesterday I was so curious about my mishap with semi-stand developing in Caffenol that I scanned the roll right away. Although I forgot to add some potassium bromide to my Caffenol-CL I can’t say I ...
Making of: historical re-enactors In case you ever wondered what it looks like when I shoot my pictures, here is a little glimpse: namely a picture my husband took of me while I was taking a street portrait of ...
delicious What do you get when you combine a contrasty film shot in bright sunlight with a contrasty developer? Right! You get a headache when you’re trying to scan the stuff! Nevertheless I can’t help liking all ...
feeding the birds Creative work seems to be a constant up and down. On some days everything seems to fall into place effortlessly and on others I just don’t seem to be able to get anything right. Lately ...
(cos)playing Yesterday I felt like the universe was trying to prevent me from shooting. Just as I was about to go for a walk with my Rollei it started pouring down. Today I remedied the situation ...
hope On my last trip I actually moved out of my comfort zone quite a bit and asked some people whether I could take their picture. It was not quite on the level of street portraiture ...
old fashioned During the last few weeks I’ve been developing film and only looking at the results with a magnifying glass rather than scanning them right away. It was an exercise in patience and now I’m getting ...
dog pleasures Sometimes I look at the results from a day out and I’m utterly disappointed. Other times however, I can’t stop looking at the pictures amazed at what I somehow managed to produce. Especially with 120 ...
vertigo Although I definitely have a fear of heights, this normally doesn’t keep me from going to high places to have a look down. I just like a railing or fence between me and the abyss, ...
in danger There is probably some kind of perverse law in the universe dictating that some things have to happen at the worst possible time. Like for example getting a terrible cold when you’re travelling. Although I ...
the doll It’s been a roller coaster of a week and it would have been full even with half the things that happened. I guess the next few weeks will be similar as well and I probably ...
Why shoot film in the digital age? Lately I have been thinking a lot about analog photography and whether I should maybe stop doing digital photography altogether. Wait, what? Don’t we live in the digital age and isn’t film something completely outdated? ...
together The Rolleicord can be a bit challenging for shooting street. There is so much to keep in mind: Forwarding the film, the number of exposures left on the roll, cocking the shutter, setting the correct ...
mauerpark On the weekend we went on a trip to Bilbao to see a Braque exhibition at the Guggenheim. Although we were not too impressed with the exhibition the trip was really nice and I came back with 6 ...
the keeper The test roll I shot with my Rolleicord V is a testament to the usefulness of reading manuals. First of all I lost 3 frames, because I didn’t load the film correctly. I forgot to ...
