Tag: Culture
Emirates Girls….
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After a rather difficult period I’m rekindling my love of photography. Returning to visit Dubai has undoubtedly helped, offering me a host of different motifs that I just couldn’t resist. Watch this space for more from this place and elsewhere…. Leica M9; Summilux 50; Lightroom; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Air show, aircraft, Aperture, Beauty, Bokeh, Business, Culture, Desert, Dubai, Emirates, Family, Film, Food, Gorgeous, Leica, Life, On the road, Photography, Portrait, Sadness, Travel, UAE
Knickers to you…..
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or a visit to the Hackischen Höfe (Berlin) with a rather surreal analogue film. Be sure to scroll through all the pictures. Strange sights, strange film, I particularly like the camel with a camera….. Leica M6; Summicron 35mm; ADOX Color Implosion
Categories: Photography • Tags: ADOX, Analogue, Animal, Art, Berlin, Blogging, Cafe, Camel, Coffee, Culture, Family, Film, Food, Graffiti, Hackischen, Humour, Knickers, Leica, Lifestyle, Market, News, Sahlep, Sexy, Stall, Tea, Tourist, Travel, trip, Underwear
Sacrow….
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in the Winter…. Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Church, Culture, Current Affairs, environment, Family, Food, Germany, Ice, Lake, Life, News, Photography, Potsdam, religion, Travel, Winter
The rest of Autumn….
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This was taken with the old Rolleiflex and a very particular high definition film from ADOX with 12 ISO. Rolleiflex 3.5f; Planar 75mm f3.5; ADOX Film and Kodak Portra 400
Categories: Photography • Tags: Analogue, Avenue, Culture, Family, Film, Food, Germany, Kodak, Life, Park, Potsdam, Road, Rolleiflex, Transport, Travel, Tree
The Seaside…. Part One
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Back to Jenny Brown’s point to visit Muffer……
Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, Children, Cooking, Culture, Death, environment, Family, Fear, Food, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Grange over Sands, Health, Jenny's Brown Point, Life, Offspring, Parents, Passing, Passion, Politics, religion, Sadness, Seaside, Season, Technology, Time, Travel
Salford Quays
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It’s changed a little bit since my first visit in the 1980s….. Leica M9; Summilux 50; Lightroom
Categories: Photography • Tags: 1980s, BBC, Culture, Deprevation, England, Family, Food, Industry, Leica, Manchester, Media, Photography, Politics, Regeneration, Restructuring, Rough, Salford, Shopping, Television, The North, Travel, Up North, VSCO
The twenties film star….
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in the late afternoon….. Leica M9; Summilux 50mm; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Action, Black and White, Bokeh, Business, Colleague, Culture, Film, Food, Leica, Monochrome, Photography, Portrait, Studio, Summilux, Thriller, Travel
When September comes….
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Leica M9; Summilux 50; Summicron 35; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, Black and White, Culture, environment, Family, Food, Haystacks, Landscape, North German Plain, Oder, People, Photography, River, Road, Sorrow, Summer, Travel, Trees
A Walk in the forest….
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with Ulrike! Rolleiflex 3.5 F (Mark III / IV); Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5f; Fuji Pro 400H; Epson V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, Beauty, Blonde, Business, Colleague, Culture, environment, Europe, Family, Food, Forest, Fuji, Germany, girl, Kodak, Leaving, Life, Mother, Photography, Portrait, Rolleiflex, Season, Travel, Tree
Metamorphosis – Teufelsberg (Berlin)
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The Teufelsberg is an artificial hill in the middle of Berlin. It is made up of the rubble that was cleared out of the heavily bombed city after the war. It is the highest point in Berlin and lies in the former British sector. The British and the Americans built a listening post on the top so they could intercept messages far into the eastern sectors. After the wall came down the occupying powers withdrew and the numerous investment projects […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Allies, Art, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Britain, Cold War, Culture, DDR, Exchange, GDR, Graffiti, History, Iron Curtain, Music, Politics, Rave, Russia, Spy, Subculture, Travel, USA
Week Twelve – The grass is always greener…..
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Spring in Brandenburg…. Konica Hexar; Konica 35mm f2; Fujichrome Provia 400X
Categories: Photography • Tags: Agriculture, Analogue, Berlin, Brandenburg, Culture, Family, Film, Food, Germany, HexarK, Jealousy, Landscape, Life, onica, Photography, Spring, Travel, Tree
Week Ten – Singers….
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I’ve amended my blog just a little to include not only the place I call home but also some of the more interesting locations that I’ve come across this blogging year. To kick this off I’ve found a place that couldn’t be more different from Brandenburg! (Best viewed full size!) Leica M9; Summicron 50mm; Lightroom
Categories: Photography • Tags: Business, Culture, Economics, Food, Germany, Hawker stalls, Life, Marine, Singerpore, Street Food, Trade, Travel
Week Nine – A Right Royal Evening….
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Neues Palais during the early evening sunset….. Leica M9; Summicron 35mm; Lightroom
Categories: Photography • Tags: 35mm, Berlin, Culture, Family, Food, Glow, Heritage, Kaisers, Kings, Leica, Neues Palais, New Palace, Photo, Photography, Potsdam, Royalty, Sanssouci, Spring Season, Summicron, Sunshine, Travel
Week Eight – Renewable….
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There’ll come a time soon when I won’t find a landscape without one of these…… Leica M9; Summicron 35mm; Lightroom
Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Culture, Ecological, Energiewende, Energy, Food, Landscape, Leica, Lightroom, Lines, People, Photography, Portraits, Renweable, Society
Week Six – Fantasia….
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Nothing is as it seems…. Leica M9; Summilux 50; Summicron 35; Lightroom & NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Culture, Dwarf, Entertainment, Fantasia, Friedrich, Friedrich Wilhelm II, Garden, History, Kingdom, Landscape, Leica, Music, Pfaueninsel, Photography, pop, Potsdam, Royalty, Travel
Week Five – The Forger….
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Find the forger…. Leica M9; Summilux 50 / Summicron 35; Lightroom / NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Asparagus, Berlin, Brandenburg, Countryside, Culture, Expat, Food, GDR, Germany, Gransee, Horse, Shopping, Tourism, Travel
Week Three – A little ditty about…..
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Jack and Diane… Randy and Evi…. A Brandenburger winter at its best…. Konica Hexer AF; 35mm f2; Kodak T-Max 400
Categories: Photography • Tags: Agriculture, Air Traffic control, Airport, Analogue, Asparagus, courting, Culture, Family, Going Out, Love, Power Station, Randy, Schönefeld, Snow, Travel, Weather
Week 29 – Ol’ Blue Eyes….
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There’s plenty of Beverly Hills 90210 in the man yet….. Fujifilm X-T1 Fujinon 56mm f1.2 Lightroom & VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: 1990s, Culture, Food, Football, Friends, Fujifilm, Jason Priestley, Man, Old Friends, Photography, Portrait, Student, Travel, TV Series, Youth
Week 10 – The Philosopher….
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Meet a good friend of mine….. Fuji X-Pro1 Fujinon 35mm f1.4 Aperture & NIK & VSCO (Ilford HP5+)
Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Culture, Food, Friend, Monochrome, People, Philosopher, Portrait, Travel, Work
Week 3 – Singapore Girls….
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….or perhaps girls in Singapore would be more appropriate. Thanks for looking after us at the Singapore Air Show! I spent a lot of time recently trying to figure out whether to buy the X-Pro 1 or the M6. As you can see I opted for the X-Pro 1 (with the excellent Fujinon 35mm f1.4 lens) which gives me a little more creative leeway by using the option of converting the digital files to my favourite film type with VSCO. […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Aerospace, Air show, Asia, Culture, Food, Girls, Multicultural, Portrait, Shopping, Travel
Week 2 – Hassan….
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It’s always good to get home for a few days, especially when you get to meet up friends you’ve not seen for a long time. Thanks for the lovely evening and of course the excellent food! Fujifilm X-Pro 1 Funjinon 35mm f1.4 Aperture and NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, England, Family, Food, Friend, Hospitality, People, Portrait, religion, Travel
Week 22 – Our Hols (Part 2)….
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Okay here comes part two…. Sorry about the obligatory “Elk-Shot”, if you pardon the pun, but it just had to be done! Does anybody know the significance of Friedolf’s bakery in the next to last shot? Canon 5D Canon 24-105 f4 Aperture and NIK and Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Author, Creative, Crime, Culture, Family, Food, Life, Mankell, Sea, Sweden, Swimming, Thriller, Time, Travel, Wallander, Writing
Week 15 – The Garden….
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… and back to digital and I think for the duration. Just pottering around the garden looking for inspiration and trying to find my photography way. Canon 5D Canon 24-105 mm 1:4 IS or Canon 50 mm 1:1.4 or Canon 70-200mm 1:4 Canon Speedlite 430 EXII and Yongnuo Aperture and Nik
Categories: Photography • Tags: Chores, Culture, Garden, Life, Love, News, Passion, Travel, Washing, Work
Week 14 – Green Trees ….
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There is much talk about the “Energy Turnaround” here, especially after Fukushima. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether it’s beneficial to the environment or not…. I’m trying to rekindle my love with my Canon 5D at the moment and that coupled with my incompetence with my last roll of film means that you’re getting digital images remastered as Kodak Portra 400 nc (Natural Colour) this week. Canon 5D Canon f4 24-105 ISO 320 Aperture and Nik
Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, Energy, environment, Green, Life, News, Politics, renewable, Tourist, Travel
Week 11 – Schleizer Dreieck (Revisited)
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Continuing on the subject of cars …. Germany’s oldest natural (or temporary) race track. The Schleizer Dreieck (Triangle) has featured in my blog before, back in May 2011 (Week-19 – The Schleizer Triangle), this time on film, from a slightly different perspective and a month earlier in the year. Picture 1: Fuji GA 645 PRO Fujinon 1:4 f=60mm Fuji Pro 400H Epson Perfection V500 Pictures 2, 3 and 4 Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon f1:2.8 75mm Fuji Pro 400H Epson […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: "Motor Racing", Cars, Culture, Food, History, Photography, Race, Speed, Sport, Travel
Week 10 – Je ne sais quoi
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For someone who has thrown all new technology (camera-wise) to the wind these past six months, I was really able to appreciate these beauties. I hope you do too! P.S. If anyone has any information about these cars do let me know please! Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon f1:2.8 75mm Kodak 400 T-MAX Rodinal 1:50 Epson Perfection V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Cars, Culture, Family, Food, Industry, Language, Life, Oldtimer, Transport, Travel
Week 9 – The Wrong Path ….
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….which all depends on your point of view of course! I’d like to credit whoever was responsible for these works of art, but I don’t unfortunately know who created them. But if you happen to be in the area they can be found here Graffiti Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon f1:2.8 75mm Kodak Portra 400 Epson Perfection V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Adolescence, Art, Culture, Family, Food, Graffiti, Life, News, Sprayer, Travel
Week 8 – Beware the Ides of March …..
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no real change here folks…… yet! (and as I will be taking next week’s entry this week don’t hold your breath, because we’ve had lots more snow!) Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon f1:2.8 75mm Fuji PRO 400H Epson Perfection V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Cold, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Food, Fun, Life, Spring, Travel, Winter
Week 7 – Promises, promises ….. some broken, some kept….
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Last week was supposed to be the last of the gloomy winter posts, well forget it! Spring did appear for a couple of days and probably decided it was definitely too cold to come out. The promise kept was from Week 41 – Werderscher Damm last year, when I said I’d be back! I won’t make any more promises about the weather, promise! Pictures 1,2 and 4 Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon f1:2.8 75mm Kodak Portra 400 Epson Perfection V500 […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Animal, Culture, Depression, Family, Food, Life, News, Spring, Travel, Winter
Week 2 – Ribbeck & Co.
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These were taken in Ribbeck (Havelland) and surrounding area. Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon 75mm 2.8 Kodak Portra 400 Epson Perfection V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Avenue, Brandenburg, Countryside, Culture, Family, Farming, Film, Life, Rural, Travel
Week 1 – Bitterly Cold
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I can honestly say that I know of no place on earth, where the wind blows straight through you as it does in that dirty miserable megalopolis that is Berlin in winter. I still love it though. I managed to meet-up with an old friend while he was visiting. We hadn’t seen each other since we last met while I was studying and he was serving in the same town in 1990. Time flies and neither of us have change one little […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Cold, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Life, Project, Stamina, Travel, Winter
Week 52 – The Pyramid
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It’s not quite over yet…. but it will be soon. Round three? To be honest I’m not really sure. If I do do it, then it will definitely be in a different manner. What do you think? Should I stay or should I go? Zenza Bronica ETRS Zenzanon 75mm f 2.8 Kodak Portra 400 Epson Perfection V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Cecilienhof, Cold, Culture, History, Life, Love, Park, Pyramid, Travel, Winter
Week 50 – Old Friends……
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Perhaps a little less of the old…… I get the niggling feeling people are getting a bit sick of me sticking a camera in their faces. Never mind I’ve not quite finished yet! Taken with the Canon EOS 30v and Canon 50mm 1.4 combination on my favourite Fuji PRO 400H film.
Categories: Photography • Tags: Age, Culture, Family, Food, Friends, Girls, Life, Love, People, Travel
Week 33 – Good Morning, Morning ….
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This somehow reminds me of a song I used to listen to when I was a kid. Mike Harding wrote “I was a penniless student wandering round Manchester, staying up all night in all-night cafes making a cup of coffee last for ever and arguing about life and politics through the night. This song is about the morning after when the sun came shouting into the city and, faintly delirious and high on the pure wonder of being alive, I […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, Entertainment, Family, History, Humour, Life, Mike Harding, Music, Student, Travel
Week 32 – The Belvedere ….. again
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I’m being very lenient with myself this week, not only am I using the British definition of a week (i.e. Sunday to Saturday, instead of the German Monday to Sunday), but I’m also posting something for the second time (see week 1) albeit from a very different angle.
Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, Health, History, Humour, Life, Summer, Sun, Time, Tourist, Travel
Week 26 – The Olympics are coming …..
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…..which is nothing new for most of you, but as I managed to get back home for the Farnborough Air Show I was quite surprised about how little London seemed to be revelling in the prospect of one of the world’s largest shows. With exception of Tower Bridge and Regent Street there was very little to be seen. For all you purists out there, I know it’s an HDR and I know colour key is definitely not very professional but I […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: "Tower Bridge", Culture, Family, Games, Great, London, Olympics, Sport, Tourism, Travel
Week 19 – Karneval der Kulturen
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I love the arty, cross-processed, analogue film type of pictures as well as the high contrasty black and whites. I don’t particularly like the HDR type of photography. However after yesterday’s colourful party at the “carnival of the cultures” in Berlin, I felt that I had to try to capture the colour and the atmosphere, and that this could only be done with a highly saturated HDR. So here’s to something just a little different! Many thanks go to the pupils […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Carnival, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Float, Karneval, Music, Parade, Party, Travel
Week 1 – Belvedere Palace
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Well here we go again, another 53 weeks lie ahead of us. If anything this next period will be more difficult than the first, if only because doing something again is often more difficult than setting out to do something the first time. They say you should start as you mean to go on, so at the last minute on the Sunday afternoon (before the light faded), I walked up to the Belvedere Palace to shoot this. I do hope […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Belvedere, Culture, Expat, Family, History, New Project, Palace, Photo, Potsdam, Winter
