Around Dublin
Two cameras. One person. Zero planning.
I recently bought a second-hand Olympus AF-1. A fully automated camera with a built-in flash. Basically I wanted to get something for occasions when my Nikkormat seemed too bulky to carry around.
The AF-1 really does not give the user any kind of control over the image except an option for focus lock. You . . .
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Images Of A Holiday Past
Somewhere in Austria
Nobody likes to look at other people's holiday photos.
There are always too much of them and they just don't trigger the same kind of nostalgic excitement if you were not there yourself.
You sit down politely for an hour and looking at a couple of thousand . . .
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Dublin
Baile Átha Cliath
Welcome to Dublin. A city I expected to be much more fancy looking than it actually is. My idea stemmed from the information I had gathered about housing market prices beforehand. If you pay 500 Euros for a shared room in the city centre it must be a pretty posh place I concluded. I was not completely wrong. Dublin has its . . .
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Colour
It almost looks like reality
These photos were taken with different rolls of film over the last two months or so. Their arrangement does not refer to any spatial or temporal coherence between them. But it might. Please feel free to establish any degree of coherence for yourself.
Locations: Luxembourg, Berlin and Kassel. I . . .
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Urban Impressions
Berlin + Luxembourg + Kassel
Stony landscapes. Not mountains. Walls made of accomodations.
My sky is a strip of light when I raise my head.
Life is dense here. A man is shouting. Young girls order kebabs. Laughter. Honking cars. Smelly trains. Fast taxis. Slow tourists. Two lovers are making . . .
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Berlin V
The most expensive post
This is probably the most expensive post on this blog so far. The reason? All of these photos were taken via analogue film and then digitalised. Just to transform these images into a digital format, which is able to be shown on this blog, several steps had to be undertaken.
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Rotterdam Kamera
Images from Western Europe
In case you have not guessed it: Kamera means camera in German.
It is a pretty different task to take photos of a place you live in. There is less of a feeling of discovery. This is obvious, since you already know the place itself. In a city the size of Rotterdam you will eventually have seen most of the . . .
Posted in: englishnetherlandsphotographywriting
Cover image credit: http://Ernest Thiesmeier
