No, I will not apologize, I will not go into details why and when and where, I will not try to explain. Just accept it, I was AWOL and I’m showing signs of life again. I just wanted to show some photos I took on a recent trip to Porto in Portugal. And I want to tell you that printing your photos is very important in order to be able to really appreciate them. Everything is fine on screen, sure, but you get the real kick out of them when you hold a print in hand. No need to have the best printer costing over 500€ or more. Just make sure you have one with as many separate color cartridges as p ..read more

I’ve been a trusty Member of the eBay community since 2002, selling hundreds of items… OK, let’s say it, selling hundreds of photography related items and buying still more. Hoy many cameras, lenses and other stuff have been bought and sold on eBay, I cant even tell. It fuelled my GAS addiction for years, that’s for sure. But those last weeks have really made me into a vehement opponent of this platform. Simple, they first blocked my account and froze over a thousand euros I had in it from very recent bigger sales, then they went even further and suspended my account. What happened? Of cour ..read more

Dreams are what’s fuelling our lives and what’s pushing humanity forward. Some have small dreams, some have big dreams and some have dreams rooted in childhood. There’s a farmer in our town who has got a dream, I suppose it’s one of his childhood dreams or even the dream of one of his kids. He does all he can to fulfill it. Provides all the comfort possible to his subjects… But I think he goes about it the wrong way. Has no clue about genetics ..read more

Looping the Loop. Making Ends Meet. In short, back to where it all began! The new old camera that’s making me happy again On the 14th of march 2015, nearly 6 years ago I wrote the above piece about the failure of Fujifilm to capture me in their digital net and how they made me go back to film photography. Much time has elapsed since those days and dozens of cameras came and went. Some came again…. and again and always left me. I had GAS, I was undecided, I wanted always more, always something different. Then again I wanted less and sold my mess…. and bought it right back. I will not try to put ..read more

Or does it? Sure, most of the great Street Photos do have people in them. Of course…. as Street Photography is mostly defined by photographing people evolving in their usual surroundings. But the presence of people is not always indispensable. There’s also the implied presence of people, the traces of their interactions with their world. There are the objects they manipulate, the traces they leave after their passage. There’s a whole lot more to Street Photography than ‘simply’ photographing people. And I don’t say ‘simply’ because it’s supposed to be easy! It’s the most difficult part, for ..read more

Let’s sit down and have a little discussion! I guess I have some ‘splaining to do, but I will not come out with all that happened in the last months all at once. I’ll try to annoy you during the next posts with all this stuff that went on… and is still going on! Don’t know who noticed but I have made myself quite scarce. I have checked the stats of this blog several times and still there were people visiting. Perhaps hoping to find some new stuff, perhaps they just got lost in the internet and ended up here… poor souls. So, let’s get to the real stuff. I don’t have any film gear any more! The ..read more

That’s what the sign says! But what the hell is a Battery Room? As it’s in the local train station I imagine a giant array of batteries to power the trains…. no, that’s stupid! Do they store some kind of batteries in there ? Mysteries abound ! Do you know of other such mysterious signs ? Do you know what this really is? Drop me a line! By the way, I really can’t deny I used my phone for this shot. And thanks for passing by ..read more

…into the future! Weary, tired, no good… And time is hard to keep track of if you have lots of things to think about, to worry about! We’ve been moving to our new (partly finished) house a bit over a week ago. Hard to find your bearings in a work in progress (slooooooowwww progress!) and hard to think about essentials like photography in this situation. Anyways, there’s always the phone camera and I snapped a few random pics around the house. Boxes, cables and lots of other stuff my wife keeps nagging about.. At least my computer is up and running and we’ve at last got a (very) decent internet ..read more

No I have not been to a mysterious forest in parts unknown. This is just around the corner, a short 5 minute’s walk away. I just wanted to play around with creating some otherworldly views from my rather bland landscape / forestscape photos. And why not! As I use a hybrid approach of film photography and digital scanning / development anyways, why not play around with the software a bit to make something new. I used Tonality as a plugin to Apple’s Photos to apply some dramatic filter and tweak it a bit. I rather like the outcome. It’s that ‘enchanted forest’ look I like. Just missing some wisp ..read more

Slowly but surely Nature claims it back What remains ..read more