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Israel Part Three (Monochrome) – Jerusalem

January 4, 2020 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

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Brighton Beach…..

October 24, 2018 by 53weeks

Taken on our summer hols…. Leica M2 & M6; Kodak Portra 160, 400 & T-MAX 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Blogging, Bright, Current Affairs, Entertainment, environment, Family, Fun, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, News, Photography, Photos, Places, Politics, Pride, religion, Sun, Travel

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Happy Birthday Hanna…

April 21, 2018 by 53weeks

  I hope you have a great one! These were taken on a business trip to Singapore in February…… Leica M6; Summilux 50mm; Elmar 21mm; CineStil 800 & Kodak Portra 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Blogging, Business, CineStil, Current Affairs, Entertainment, environment, Family, Humor, Humour, Leica, Life, Lifestyle, M6, News, Office, Photography, Photos, Places, Politics, Portra, Singapore, Sports, Sun, Technology, Travel, Work

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Singapore Part One….

April 4, 2018 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

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Frau B aus O…..

December 6, 2017 by 53weeks

I hope you like it….! Leica m9; Summilux 50; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Air show, Amsterdam, Art, Bokeh, Business, Current Affairs, Dubai, English, environment, Film, Food, Humour, Leica, Life, Photos, Places, Politics, Presentation, Sports, Travel, Work

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Cool Dude…..

November 26, 2017 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Week 20 – Josef

December 22, 2014 by 53weeks

Meet Josef! Fujifilm X-T1 Fujinon 56mm f1.2 Lightroom

Categories: Photography • Tags: Business, Christmas, Colleague, Family, Father, Food, Politics, Portrait, Travel, Work

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Week 9 – Eva

May 25, 2014 by 53weeks

I don’t know if you happened to notice, but I’ve been a little bit busy lately….. Here’s Eva to make up for things! Canon 5D Lensbaby Composer Pro with Edge 80 Aperture, NIK and VSCO (Kodak Portra 160C)  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Beauty, Berlin Air Show, Edge 80, Eyes, Family, Food, Lensbaby, Politics, Portrait, Work

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Week 7 – A Man and his Dog….

March 18, 2014 by 53weeks

… on Thuringia’s green pastures. Fuji X-Pro 1 Fujinon 35mm f1.4 & Fujifilm X100 Fujinon 23mm f2 Aperture and NIK VSCO (Kodak Portra 400)

Categories: Photography • Tags: Agriculture, Animals, Dogs, Family, Farming, Food, Pet, Politics, Portrait, Tractor

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Week 43 – Street Art….

December 2, 2013 by 53weeks

…. East German style! Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm & WCL-X100 19mm Aperture and NIK VSCO – Kodak Portra 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, dog, Food, Graffiti, Life, Neustadt, Orla, Politics, Street Photography, Travel

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Week 42 – The Hat Factory….

November 23, 2013 by 53weeks

….built in Luckenwalde by Erich Mendelsohn in 1923. Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK

Categories: Photography • Tags: Architecture, Construction, Expressionism, History, Holocaust, Luckenwalde, persecution, Politics, Prisoner of War, Travel

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Week 39 – Checkpoint Bravo (West)…..

November 12, 2013 by 53weeks

…..otherwise know as “Grenzübergangsstelle Drewitz-Dreilinden” in the East. This week’s post continues the cold war theme. Rolleiflex 3.5 F (Mark III / IV) Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5f Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak T-Max 400 (Rodinal 1:50) Epson V500

Categories: Photography • Tags: Allies, Architecture, Cold War, East Germany, Family, Life, Politics, Time, Transit, Travel

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Week 38 – Bridge of Spies

October 30, 2013 by 53weeks

The Glienicker Brücke divided West Berlin (US zone) and the GDR (Soviet zone), it was one of the few places along the Iron Curtain where the two super powers shared a border, hence it was here that they chose to exchange their spies. The most famous exchange took place on the 10th of February 1962, where Gary Powers the U2 pilot shot down over Soviet territory was exchanged for Vilyam “Willie” Genrikhovich Fisher who leaked US atomic secrets. Today, 24 […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: CIA, Cold War, Crisis, Iron Curtain, KGB, MI5, Politics, Spy, Stasi

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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

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Week 20 – Paris, City of Love …..

July 6, 2013 by 53weeks

The more astute of you will have noticed that I haven’t posted for a while, well after a long business trip and our annual summer holidays I’m back. I’ll do my best to catch up in the coming weeks… Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK   Sorry this was the romantic one!  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Food, Gutter, Le Bourget, Love, News, Paris, Politics, Romance, Travel, Urban

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Week 18 – Time to go….

June 4, 2013 by 53weeks

A good friend and colleague retired last week. Although we didn’t always see eye to eye, he will be remembered as one of the last pioneers, never accepting the boundaries we so often struggle to overcome. Canon 5D Canon f1.8 85mm Aperture and Yashica MAT 124G Yashinon f3.5 80mm Fuji Pro 400H  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Career, Employment, Food, Job, Leisure, Politics, Portrait, Retire, Time, Travel

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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

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Week 24 – The Sidecar (BMW R 75)

July 2, 2012 by 53weeks

You don’t see many of these on the roads today….. I was a little hasty on the trigger and published this week’s post before I had actually written anything. This BMW R 75 was built in 1941 and most probably served the Luftwaffe during this period. It is a rarity but the lucky owner recently managed to purchase the previous model as well. It’s a very large bike but incredibly quiet. Good luck with the collection! P.S. So this week’s […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Army, History, Motorbike, Motorcycle, Politics, Society, Transport, Travel, War

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Week 22 – This is art….

June 18, 2012 by 53weeks

This is a picture of the little people with a bridge covered in barrier tape ….

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Construction, Entertainment, Family, Fashion, News, Photo, Politics, religion, Travel

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Week 17 – Lenin and the Little People

May 14, 2012 by 53weeks

I thought I’d continue the Soviet theme for another week. This is more or less all that remains of the former Red Army base, which after being cleared of all munitions is now a public park.

Categories: Photography • Tags: Children, Family, History, Life, Photo, Politics, religion, Russians, Spring, Travel

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Week 16 – Stalin’s Legacy

May 7, 2012 by 53weeks

It was rather fitting that I should find myself in this part of Berlin on this day, May the 1st of course being international labour day. It was here on the 17th of June 1953 that the workers of the newly formed GDR started their uprising against the fledgling socialist regime, primarily due to the increase of work quotas. The Soviets were called in and the “counter-revolution” was quashed with an official loss of 125 lives. From then on this […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Education, Family, History, Life, Politics, religion, Revolution, Tower, Travel, War

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