by 53weeks
I did have some qualms about taking pictures at the Western Wall, however I wasn’t there on the Shabbat and no one is recognisable so I don’t think anyone will be offended….. Leica M9M; Summilux 50; Summieren 35; Elmar 21; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Business, Colleague, Culture, Family, Food, Israel, Jerusalem, Leica, Life, Photo, Politics, Trade, Travel, VSCO, Western wall
by 53weeks
As the temperatures soar above 30°C, I catch up with those winter pictures…. a (mild) winter walk in January. Leica M9M; Summicron 35mm; Summilux 50mm; VSCO; Lightroom
Categories: Photography • Tags: 2019, banned, Bike, Christmas, Döner, Food, Germany, Kebab, Kebap, Leica, M9, Monochrome, Potsdam, Summicron, Summilux, Walk, Waschhaus, Winter
by 53weeks
Apparently when the combine harvesters arrive, the summer comes to an end….. Leica M9; Summicron 90mm; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Beer, Business, Culture, environment, Family Home, Farming, Food, Harvest, Health, Home, Life, Lifestyle, Technology, Thanks Giving, Thanksgiving, Travel, Work
by 53weeks
Hot lady…. Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Artist, BBQ, Berlin, Bird, Circus, Culture, Entertainment, Event, Family, Fire Breathing, Fire Eating, Food, Foto, Germany, Hot, Life, Photo, Potsdam, Sex, Street, Street Festival, Time, Travel
by 53weeks
My son said “I dare you to take just film to Singapore” so I did. Here are the results….. Leica M6; Summilux 50mm / Elmar 21mm / Summicron 35mm; CineStil / Portra 800; Reflecta ProScan 7200
Categories: Photography • Tags: Analogue, Art, Business, CineStil, Current Affairs, Entertainment, environment, Family, Film, Food, Home, Humour, Leica, Life, Lifestyle, News, Photography, Photos, Places, Politics, religion, Singapore, Sports, Summilux, Technology, Travel, ummicron, Work
by 53weeks
One from the Dubai series…… Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Air show, Art, Black and White, Dubai, Entertainment, environment, Food, Humour, Leica, Life, Lifestyle, Monochrome, Music, News, Photos, Places, Politics, Portrait, Summilux, Technology, Travel, VSCO
by 53weeks
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
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
by 53weeks
Now that Spring has arrived I can keep posting those depressing shots of Winter….. Leica M9; Summilux 50 & Sumicron 35; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Blogging, Depression, environment, Food, Germany, Humour, Landscape, Life, Mood, News, Photos, Places, Season, Sledging, Snow, Sports, Thüringen, Thuringia, Travel, Winter
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
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
by 53weeks
….since I last posted anything. To be honest I’ve been searching (as ever) for a little inspiration for a new project lasting 53 weeks and I can’t seem to settle on that “one” subject. It’s not for the lack of ideas it’s just that that simply I don’t want to confine myself to one type of motive or one medium or one of whatever….. Therefore the next few posts will be of things that I’ve been shooting over the past […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Analog, Analogue, Autumn, Beauty, Belrin, Business, City, Family, Film, Food, Fun, Germany, Herbst, History, Kodak, Leisure, Nature, Park, Portra, Potsdam, Rolleiflex, Sanssouci, Season, Travel, Zeiss
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
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
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
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
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
by 53weeks
In the car park behind Germany’s most exclusive department store on a very special day….. I think I just liked the light and the lines…… Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Birthday, Car, day, Family, Food, KDW, Memorandum, Memory, Multi-storey, Park, Sadness, Shopping, Special, Store, Travel
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
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
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
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
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
by 53weeks
I pass this tree on those long evening walks with the beast of an animal. It is then that I take the time to ponder and reflect on the past few months. Fujifilm X100; Fujinon 23mm f/2; Lightroom & NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Agriculture, Countryside, Death, dog, Family, Food, Home, Hurt, Pain, Photography, Reflection, Sadness, Travel, Tree, Walk
by 53weeks
Categories: Photography • Tags: aircraft, Beauty, Business, Dubai, Emirate, Food, Glamour, Innovation, Photography, Portrait, Trade, Travel, UAE, Work
by 53weeks
It didn’t seem a day since we last met….
Categories: Photography • Tags: Air Training Corps, aircraft, England, Food, Leica, Military, Old Friend, Portrait, Prime, RAF, Sanssouci, Scotland, Travel
by 53weeks
Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Artist, Berlin, Black and White, Food, Leica, Photography, Portrait, Thuringia, Travel
by 53weeks
Categories: Photography • Tags: "Black & White", Beauty, Birthday, Food, Friend, Germany, girl, Glamour, Leica, Monochrome, Party, Portrait, Travel
by 53weeks
…around town, meet Marc! Fujifilm X-Pro1 Fujinon 35mm f1.4 Lightroom & NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Beer, Black and White, Dapper, English, Food, Fuji, Gentleman, Male Model, Monochrome, Office Portrait, Poland, Portrait, Travel, Warsaw
by 53weeks
This is Pepe! If you ever happen to fancy a drink in Potsdam, his place is the best in town…. P.S. The clue is on the t-shirt…. Rolleiflex 3.5 F (Mark III / IV) Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5f Kodak Portra 400 Epson V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: 6 x 6, Analogue Film, Bar, Barkeeper, Barman, Beer, Bier, Drink, festival, Film, Food, Germany, Hafthorn, Kneipe, Kodak, Medium Format, Neues Palais, New Palace, Potsdam, Pub, Rollei, Royal, Spirit, Summer, Travel, University
by 53weeks
….there are some people I could take pictures of all day, Hanna is one of them….. On another note, these two shots may fuel the current Leica M vs Fuji X discussion… 😉 Fujifilm X-Pro1 Fujinon 35mm f1.4 Lightroom & VSCO Leica M2 Elmar f=5cm 1:2.8 Kodak BW400CN
Categories: Photography • Tags: Black and White, Camera, Colleague, Food, Fuji v Leica, girl, Glamour, Monochrome, Office, Portrait, Travel, VSCO, Warsaw, Woman
by 53weeks
….or “There she was just a walk’in down the street, sing’in dowah diddy, diddy dum diddy do!” Fujifilm X-Pro1 Fujinon 35mm f1.4 Lightroom & VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Beer, Entertainment, Father's day, Food, Friends, Fun, Lads, Music, Sexy lady, Women
by 53weeks
or how to fund your globetrotting addiction…. I had some pretty strange jobs as a student but I never dressed as a teddy bear, not in public anyway… Fujifilm X100 Fujinon 23mm f2 Lightroom, NIK & VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: Congress, Fair, Family, Food, girl, Job, Money, Student, Teddy Bear, Trade Fair, Transport Logistic, Travel
by 53weeks
A good friend and an old bird (call sign INKA)…. A De Havilland Dove from days when flying was something very special…. Fujifilm X-Pro1 Fujinon 56mm f1.2 & Fujinon 10-24mm f4 Lightroom & VSCO
Categories: Photography • Tags: aircraft, Airline, De Havilland, Dove, Flying, Food, Friend, Holiday, LTU, Oldtimer, Pilot, Tourism, Travel
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
