Knickers to you…..

April 24, 2017 by 53weeks

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….

March 20, 2017 by 53weeks

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….

March 8, 2017 by 53weeks

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

And then there was Toulouse…

February 21, 2017 by 53weeks

….the last trip of the year in fact. Fujifilm X100; Fujinon 23mm f2; Lightroom and VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Airbus, Art, Business, Cafe, Culture, Europe, Flying, Food, France, Fuji, Graffiti, Life, Street Photography, Toulouse, Travel, VSCO, Weather

The Seaside…. Part Two

November 21, 2016 by 53weeks

Lytham St. Annes – It would have been such a lovely place to live…..  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Child, Cooking, Culture, Death, environment, Family, Food, Grandchildren, Holidays, Humour, Life, Lytham, Mother, Politics, religion, Saddness, Sand, School, Sea, Seaside, Son, St Anne's, Travel

The Seaside…. Part One

November 10, 2016 by 53weeks

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

November 7, 2016 by 53weeks

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

Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho…..

November 1, 2016 by 53weeks

it’s off to work we go, albeit in a rather spectacular neighbourhood…. Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Asia, Big Site, Business, Culture, Current Affairs, Family, Food, Japan, Leica, Metro, religion, Summilux, Sushi, Technology, Time, Tokyo, Travel, VSCO

The twenties film star….

October 12, 2016 by 53weeks

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….

October 7, 2016 by 53weeks

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….

September 28, 2016 by 53weeks

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

Late Summer in Eastern Germany….

September 25, 2016 by 53weeks

Leica M9; Summilux 50mm; Summicron 35; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Case, Crop, Culture, Family, Farming, Food, Hunting, Leica, Life, Photography, Season, Shadow, Sky, Summer, Summicron, Summilux, Thüringen, Thuringia, Tractor, Travel, Tree, Vehicle

Daniel’s Leaving…

September 7, 2016 by 53weeks

he’s moving on to bigger and better things….. Leica M2; Summicron 35; Kodak T-MAX 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: Administration, Artist, Berlin, Business, Colleague, Culture, Family, Father, Film Photography, Food, Kodak, Leica, Mate, Portait, Summicron, Travel, Work

Weißsee Austria

September 6, 2016 by 53weeks

A week in Austria – lovely place! Leica M9; Summilux 50; Summicron 35; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Alps, Challenges, Children, Climbing, Commemoration, Culture, Family, Film, Food, Friends, Holiday, Leica, Politics, Sadness, Summicron, Summilux, Tourism, Travel, VSCO, Walking

Metamorphosis – Teufelsberg (Berlin)

August 30, 2016 by 53weeks

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…..

May 29, 2016 by 53weeks

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 Eleven – Sleepless in Seattle…

May 13, 2016 by 53weeks

Just a short trip, hence the sleeplessness…. Leica M9; Summilux 50mm; Lightroom & NIK

Categories: Photography • Tags: Business, Culture, Family, Food, Leica, Life, North America, Port, Seattle, Travel, USA

Week Ten – Singers….

May 1, 2016 by 53weeks

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….

April 11, 2016 by 53weeks

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….

April 5, 2016 by 53weeks

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 Seven – Winter Havel…

March 7, 2016 by 53weeks

no snow but still pretty cold… Fujifilm X-T1; Fujinon 10-24mm f4; Lightroom

Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Boats, Culture, Expat, Family, Food, Life, Maritime, Photography, Potsdam, Tourism, Travel, Water, Werder

Week Six – Fantasia….

February 10, 2016 by 53weeks

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….

February 5, 2016 by 53weeks

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…..

January 23, 2016 by 53weeks

 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 51 – Daniel…

December 16, 2015 by 53weeks

Categories: Photography • Tags: Artist, Berlin, Business, Canteen, Coffee, Colleague, Culture, Food, Friend, Graffiti, Travel, Work

Week 50 – Maria…

December 1, 2015 by 53weeks

…again!

Categories: Photography • Tags: Beauty, Bokeh, Business, Colleague, Culture, Dubai, Emotion, Food, girl, Glamour, Model, Photography, Portrait, Sadness, Travel

Week 49 – Zoltan…

November 26, 2015 by 53weeks

Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Business, Culture, Food, Friend, Genius, Hungary, Languages, Portrait, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Travel

Week 44 – Safiya….

October 30, 2015 by 53weeks

Categories: Photography • Tags: Beauty, Culture, England, Food, Friendship, girl, Glamour, Leica, Portrait, Travel

Week 40 – Forever Young….

September 26, 2015 by 53weeks

Summer in Ahrenshoop….

Categories: Photography • Tags: Age, Ahrenshoop, Analogue, Baltic, Beach, Culture, Film, Food, Fun, Gracefully, Holidays, Leica, Motorbike, Old, Rebel, Slide, Travel, Vespa, young

Week 37 – The Carrolls

June 25, 2015 by 53weeks

…or happy families! Leica M2 Elmar f=5cm 1:2.8 Kodak T-Max 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, England, Family, Food, Friends, Home, Kodak, Leica, Portrait, Sheperd's Pie, Tea, Travel

Week 33 – Renate…

May 22, 2015 by 53weeks

…in Warsaw…. Fujifilm X-Pro1 Fujinon 35mm f1.4 Lightroom & NIK

Categories: Photography • Tags: 35mm, 50mm, Aerospace, Business, Culture, Food, Fuji X, Historical, Poland, Portrait, Travel, Warsaw

Week 29 – Ol’ Blue Eyes….

March 22, 2015 by 53weeks

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 25 – The Sudanese Lady….

February 18, 2015 by 53weeks

who gave me coffee…. This old camera and lens combination never ceases to amaze me…. Leica M2 Elmar f=5cm 1:2.8 Kodak BW400CN

Categories: Photography • Tags: Africa, Antique, Coffee, Culture, Drink, Food, Leica, Potrait, Sudan, Travel

Week 10 – The Philosopher….

June 16, 2014 by 53weeks

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….

February 17, 2014 by 53weeks

….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….

February 7, 2014 by 53weeks

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 25 – Brick Lane

August 13, 2013 by 53weeks

We went for a curry down Brick Lane, I think my Jalfrezi days might just be over……! Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Culture, England, Food, Graffiti, London, Out of the ordinary, Politics, Travel, War

Week 22 – Our Hols (Part 2)….

July 14, 2013 by 53weeks

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….

May 13, 2013 by 53weeks

… 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 ….

May 7, 2013 by 53weeks

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)

April 11, 2013 by 53weeks

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

April 6, 2013 by 53weeks

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 ….

March 29, 2013 by 53weeks

….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 …..

March 23, 2013 by 53weeks

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….

March 14, 2013 by 53weeks

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.

February 8, 2013 by 53weeks

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

January 27, 2013 by 53weeks

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

January 15, 2013 by 53weeks

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……

January 4, 2013 by 53weeks

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 35 – The ILA and Türk Hava Kuvvetleri

September 17, 2012 by 53weeks

The Berlin Air Show has come and gone, thanks to the Turkish Air Force for a great display…..

Categories: Photography • Tags: Aerospace, Business, Culture, Family, Fighter, Life, Military, News, Travel, Turkey

Week 34 – backstoltz

September 9, 2012 by 53weeks

Bit of a “selfie” this week, only the second time ever! It was taken during a late summer evening’s stroll to the local ice café.

Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, Entertainment, Family, Food, Guave, Life, News, Portrait, Street, Travel

Week 33 – Good Morning, Morning ….

September 4, 2012 by 53weeks

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

August 28, 2012 by 53weeks

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 30 – Royal Enfield in the Royal City of Potsdam

August 13, 2012 by 53weeks

My mate’s just got a new bike……

Categories: Photography • Tags: Bike, Culture, Family, Friends, History, Home, Life, Retro, Technology, Travel

Week 26 – The Olympics are coming …..

July 22, 2012 by 53weeks

…..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

May 28, 2012 by 53weeks

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

January 23, 2012 by 53weeks

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