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At the beginning of the year I had my old Leica M2 from 1961 CLAed in Wetzlar. Here’s the first result…… Leica M2; Elmar 2.8 50mm; Kodak Portra 400
Categories: Photography • Tags: 50mm, adjusted, Avenue, Brandenburg, CLA, Cleaned, Elmar, Germany, Kodak, Leica, lubricated, Potra, Winter
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The Economist was recently titled “The man who screwed an entire country” accompanied by a picture of Silvio Berlusconi. In Potsdam it isn’t a single man but more a political morass of people who were on the payroll of the regime before the fall of the wall. One of the latest victims has been the local public services company which hosts the annual music festival in Potsdam. This year’s roll call included Simple Minds, Robin Gibb and Kim Wilde. The […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: "The Economist", 50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Berlusconi, Bicycle, Blende, Canon, Chair, Communism, Economist, Energy, England, Expat, f1.8, Fahrrad, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Geschwister, Great Britain, Humour, Images, Kim Wilde, Kommunismus, Lustgarten, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Morass, Pfaffhausen, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Pleasure Garden, Potsdam, Project, public services, Public services company, Robin Gibb, Screw, Seconds, Secret Police, Sessel, Siblings, Sigma, Silvio, Simple Minds, Sitz, Socialism, Sozialismus, Stadtwerke, Stadtwerkefest, Stasi, Stunden, Time, Utilities, Weeks, Years
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as above ……… f8 1/50 ISO 800 @50mm
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, Allee, Aperture, Architecture, Architektur, ASA, Bank, Beauty, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, Castle, Castle Lindstedt, Chair, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, ISO, Lindstedt, Manor House, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Palace, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Preussen, Preussische Schlösser, Project, Prussia, Schloss, Schloss LIndstedt, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Years
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This was taken early in the morning whilst on my way to work on that “sit up and beg” style Dutch bike of mine that I have mentioned previously. The view is from the Havelstrasse across to the Hans Otto theatre in Potsdam. I’ve finally gone full frame, albeit analogue. This was shot with a Pentacon 50mm f1.8 (effectively a Meyer Oreston 50mm f1.8) lens on a Praktica MTL3 camera which were last produced around 1984. The MTL3 is completely […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.8, 50mm, Analog, Analogue, Aperture, Azor, B&W, Bank, Belichtung, Belichtungsmesser, Bench, Berlin, Black and White, Blende, Chair, DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Digital, Dutch, Dutch Bicycle, Dutch Bke, Expat, Exposure, f1.8, Family, Film, Foto, Fotos, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hans Otto Theater, Havelstrasse, Holland, Hollandrad, Hours, HP5, Humor, Humour, Ilford, Ilford Hp5, Images, Light, Light Meter, Meyer, Meyer Oreston, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Pentacon, Photo, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Praktica, Project, Schwarzweiss, Seat, Seconds, Sessel, Sit up and Beg, Sitz, Stunden, theater, theatre, theter, Time, TTL, Weeks, Years
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Schleiz’s claim to fame is one of the oldest “natural” race tracks in Germany. The first ever race took place on the 10th of June 1923, with the aim being to race as far as possible and as quickly as possible on five litres of fuel. The winner of the car race was Mr. Huldreich Heußer with a total distance of 87.3 km and an average of 41.4 km/h (which quite incidentally is similar to what I get out of […]
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…… on a sunny May afternoon in Neuruppin (1923). f4 1/800 ISO 200 @19mm
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 1920s, 1923, 50mm, anonym, anonymous, Antique, antiquität, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Brandenburg, Canon, Canon 40D, Chair, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Frau, Frühling, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Lady, Landscape, Mai, May, Minutes, Monate, Months, Neuruppin, Old, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sepia, Sessel, Sitz, Spring, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Woman, Years
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…… tune in again next week for the sequel, you won’t be disappointed! Thanks to Peter for his patience trudging around Bremen city centre on a cold damp winters evening. f1.8 1/25 ISO 800 50mm ambient light (P.S. I really do love that cheap 50mm 1.8 piece of glass)
Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.8, 50mm, ambient light, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Bremen, Canon, Chair, f1.8, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Nifty Fifty, Peter, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, Seat, Seconds, Weeks, Winter, Years
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This weeks offer is a BOGOF (not to be mixed up with BOBFOC), where you get two for the price of one, which probably applies for both actually….. I just couldn’t decide between the two. So why don’t you decide? Both photographs were taken of the same bank on the floodplains of the Wisenta River in Schleiz (Thuringia). I was hoping for a little more variety of motifs, when I set out, i.e. a balance between portrait and landscape […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 35mm, 50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Blende, BOBFOC, BOGOF, Canon, Canon 40D, Chair, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minutes, Monate, Months, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, reduced, River, sale, Schleiz, Schlussverkauf, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Snow, sonderverkauf, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wisenta, Years
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I think you may have to get used to a number of these banks being within the boundaries of the city of Potsdam, as well as being taken at the last possible moment during the week. The more observant of you will have noticed that this was taken on a Sunday, hence it was taken on the first day of the new week. This is correct, unless you live in Germany, where the first day of the week is a […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, 52, 53, 8, Aperture, Bank, Barmcake, Bench, Berlin, Bilder, Blende, Bolton, Bread, Canon, Chair, Children, Dallgow, Dirty, DoF, Dreck, England, Expat, f1, f1.8, Familie, Family, Fireworks, Foto, Fotos, Frau, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Jahre, Kids, Kinder, Knaller, Leben, Life, Manchester, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, New Year, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Roll, Scharfentiefe, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Silvester, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Wochen, Years
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“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.” – David Bailey – In “Face,” (London), Dec 1984. It is with this in mind that we set off on our 53 week photographic journey. There are few things more ordinary than a bank, so in […]
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