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 ...
ouch Today I’ll show you some pictures from another one of those strange Basque traditions. Like many of them it involves drumming and the kids love it, but apart from that I have no idea what ...
chess When people ask me whether shooting film is more difficult then I usually say no. It doesn’t have to be more difficult at all, especially if you shoot with an automatic camera and use a ...
legs Today I show you some pictures from the first roll taken with my Yashica Electro 35 cc after extensive repairs. The rangefinder was stuck, there was something loose in the top plate, it had light ...
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 ...
public sleeping Today’s pictures were taken in Berlin on the day that I got my Rolleicord. I wasn’t quite decided yet, so we walked around a little more and then came back to the shop to buy ...
triplets When I was looking for a small automatic rangefinder I very quickly got interested in one of the most popular ones, the Yashica Electro 35. However, the more common models looked quite big and they ...
modern driftwood In the winter a big storm hit San Sebastian and a flood damaged all the four bridges and part of the beach front. The next day I went for a walk with my Zorki to see the ...
too late I stopped using an external light meter with my Zorki more than a year ago. It just slowed me down way too much and I felt like I was just blindly following the light meter ...
we have to wait outside At the end of January we went to Bilbao to escape the noise of the celebrations of the day of San Sebastian. It was rainy, grey and dark, just as was to be expected in ...
guggenheim At the beginning of the year we went to Bilbao for a long weekend. In winter the Basque country is very wet, so we got rained on quite a lot. However, we still had a ...
take away coffee Before I continue with my usual mischief I actually want to catch up on all my editing. This way I can actually be up to date for once instead of always trying to catch up ...
big hug for grandma I was 16 when I shot my first roll of black and white film. I can’t remember what kind of film it was, but it must have been ISO 100 film, because I came back ...
libre A new batch of film has arrived and so I have now 25 rolls of Tri-X to shoot, 10 of which are 35mm and 15 are 120 film. As you can clearly see from the ...
bored keeper Being in the Basque Country also has its downsides. One of them is that doing paperwork concerning the Spanish government always involves metal detectors and x-rays. Sure, I can understand the notion. After all I ...
potential cindarella Again a late post from me, because I was actually travelling today and didn’t have enough time to edit the pictures I wanted to show you. These were taken last week when I was out ...
curiosity Today I show you some pictures from my third roll of 120 film taken with the Isolette. So, how did it go? The composition and the reaction of the people was fine, but boy did ...
geometry These pictures were taken last week while exploring Egia. I think I’ve found one of the good spots for street photography here and will definitely be haunting that square on warm days. Slowly I’m also figuring out ...
playing with fire The pictures I’m showing you today were taken during the fiesta of San Juan, which celebrates the summer solstice. The local superstition involves lighting lots of fires and jumping over them to purify yourself for ...
