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
Tag: Politics
Brighton Beach…..
Taken on our summer hols….
Leica M2 & M6; Kodak Portra 160, 400 & T-MAX 400
Happy Birthday Hanna…
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
Singapore Part One….
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
Frau B aus O…..
I hope you like it….!
Leica m9; Summilux 50; VSCO
Cool Dude…..
One from the Dubai series……
Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO
The Seaside…. Part Two
Lytham St. Annes – It would have been such a lovely place to live…..
The Seaside…. Part One
Back to Jenny Brown’s point to visit Muffer……
Salford Quays
It’s changed a little bit since my first visit in the 1980s…..
Leica M9; Summilux 50; Lightroom
Weißsee Austria
A week in Austria – lovely place!
Leica M9; Summilux 50; Summicron 35; VSCO
Metamorphosis – Teufelsberg (Berlin)
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 have failed leaving the former listening facility in the hands of artists and musicians. A true metamorphosis!
Leica M9; Summilux 50; Summicron 35; Lightroom & VSCO
Week 20 – Josef
Meet Josef!
Fujifilm X-T1
Fujinon 56mm f1.2
Lightroom
Week 9 – Eva
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)
Week 7 – A Man and his Dog….
… on Thuringia’s green pastures.
Fuji X-Pro 1
Fujinon 35mm f1.4
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Fujifilm X100
Fujinon 23mm f2
Aperture and NIK
VSCO (Kodak Portra 400)
Week 43 – Street Art….
…. East German style!
Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm & WCL-X100 19mm Aperture and NIK VSCO – Kodak Portra 400
Week 42 – The Hat Factory….
….built in Luckenwalde by Erich Mendelsohn in 1923.
Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK
Week 39 – Checkpoint Bravo (West)…..
…..otherwise know as “Grenzübergangsstelle Drewitz-Dreilinden” in the East.
This week’s post continues the cold war theme.
Week 38 – Bridge of Spies
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 years after German reunification, the line in the middle of the bridge only divides the cities of Berlin (in the east) and Potsdam (in the west).
Rolleiflex 3.5 F (Mark III / IV) Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5f Kodak Portra 400 and Ilford FP4 125 (Rodinal 1:50) Epson V500
Week 25 – Brick Lane
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
Week 20 – Paris, City of Love …..
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!
Week 18 – Time to go….
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
Week 14 – Green Trees ….
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 
Week 24 – The Sidecar (BMW R 75)
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 lesson is never confuse “Save” and “publish” on WordPress ……
Week 22 – This is art….
This is a picture of the little people with a bridge covered in barrier tape ….
Week 17 – Lenin and the Little People
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.
Week 16 – Stalin’s Legacy
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 monumental socialist boulevard was used for parades and celebrations in honour of the “great” regime. The Stalin Allee was later renamed the Karl-Marx-Allee when it wasn’t quite so fashionable to be associated with that particular dictator.
The Tower in the background is the East-Berliner “Fernsehturm” another piece of awe-inspiring socialist architecture.
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