Category: Photography

January 20, 2021

Funny Faces Behind The Fence

The funny faces behind the fence are put against the wall of the former Central Office for Statistics of the GDR. At the time it was mostly abanonded. There were always high flying plans to use this building or tear it down and replace it but nothing really happend. As of today the city owns the land and buildings and…

Photography/Urbanism

January 14, 2021

Tetris on the go #1 (2021)

I bought my daughter a couple of magnetic shapes that are formed like 3D Tetris pieces. She wanted me to play with them too when I saw one could make different cubist looking objects out of them. Thus born was the idea of taking these shapes and putting them in different visual contexts. Let’s see how many ideas I can…

Photography

January 12, 2021

Leaves the Bench

A vintage lens the FUJINON EBC 28mm/F3.5 This is one of the first images I took with my new (used) Fujifilm X-T3 and a vintage lens. In this case the FUJINON EBC 28mm/F3.5. It is a classic wide angle lens from the late 70s and early 80s. So about 40 years old. Mine is in reasonably good condition but I…

Photography

January 8, 2021

My life in cameras part 11: Fujifilm X100T

Last time I wrote about how I lost my creativity and inspirations for photography. I was just buying shiny new toys instead of observing my surroundings for interesting scenes. It ended with me selling all my equipment because I thought that photography was simply no longer an enjoyable hobby of mine. And that is alright, sometimes we loose interest in…

Photography/Thoughts about myself

January 4, 2021

Pillars of concrete Eternity (2016, Panasonic GM1)

Pillars of concrete Eternity Remember how I bought the Pansaonic GM1 for the express purpose of having a small camera with me on my daily commute? I could have used my phone but I hate taking pictures with a phone. I dislike touch screens and with photography I very much enjoy the physical act of handling a camera. Ugly Commute…

Photography

December 30, 2020

My easy Fujifilm X-T3 setup for vintage lenses

As you know I bought a Fuji X-T3 mostly to shoot with vintage lenses. For me most cameras have too many functions that I do not need. I also dislike using menus or touchscreens. That is why I like Fuji because you can see all the relevant settings by just looking at the camera. So I went and checked every…

Photography

December 29, 2020

Brick Office

I took this picture when I was still very new to complex cameras. Why in the world did I stop the lens down to F9? Well we all have to start learning somewhere. Astute readers might recognize this place from an earlier post. It is the exact same building but with the shot just taken from the other side. And…

Photography/Urbanism

December 25, 2020

Distance and Reflection (2020)

My thoughts on Christmas about relationships and what seems to be important in life. Sometimes I distance myself to reflect calmly and sometimes I distance myself because I have reflected calmly. Even though “to think about” would be the proper translation of “nachdenken” I feel that “to reflect” captures the essence of the saying better Mirrored on a blackboard I…

Photography/Thoughts about myself

December 20, 2020

My life in camera part 10: Panasonic GX8 Buying for buying sake

This camera marked the low point of my photography. As you can see from all the installments of this series I bought more and more cameras and lenses. But this did not help with my loss of focus and creativity. I simply no longer enjoyed photography. My then most used camera the Olympus M5 Mk.2 felt overly complicated, I did…

Photography/Thoughts about myself

December 18, 2020

Storm Damage

That is how my local park looked with rather severe storm damage. Heavy storms are not really the norm in mainland Germany but they do occur mostly in late autumn and early winter. The park was not very well maintained due to budget cuts and the storm took its toll. The whole area looked like a tangled mess of twigs…

Photography