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2009-02-20T09:45:00.000+01:00

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state of mind

2008-12-07T16:46:00.001+01:00

Verdammt, Hannover !

2008-11-28T11:52:00.022+01:00

issue #33

Well, it's been a while since my last post. In Hannover since late September due to educational reasons.. A lot of new faces, many old faces are beeing missed desperately.. Looking forward to bringing the old band back together on christmas.. Cheers to all of you, wherever you may be.. Wien, Mainz, Lautern, Marburg, Wuerzburg, Frankfurt, Ottersberg, Koeln, back in Duerkheim .... ! After not shooting digital at all for a relaxed period of like.. 6 months I went pro by hurling myself into debts and buying an overpriced lousy nikon digital camera. That of course resulted in shooting like a maniac and creating an BILDERFLUT on my harddrive.. And because i'm WAY to lazy to upload 300 pictures to this blog I uploaded them all to flickr, for your entertainment..

GOGO SLIDESHOW

A smaller selection still shown here:

Michi and Lise having a smoke.. Trees outside our living room still green... Some time ago.

Who does not LOVE that stuff..? The sound, the sense of accomplishment if you "pop" a lot of em at the same time... Pure Joy.

Robin & Judith visited us.. Couchfun.

A sunny sunday morning in Hannover...

Lunch. Delicious. mhhhhm.

*humm opening of black sabbath - iron man now*

some boring graphic "street".

On our way to a gathering of some sort... Because we're mad danger-seekers we had some Wine in the subway.. 50 Euros for getting caught but hey, you only live once, right?

Cheesy.

- without words -

Meet the friendly photocrowd.

"What's cooler then beeing cool?" "ICECOOOLD"

Anna with my very beloved pseudoindie shades.

Annika fooling around with Digger.

Anna getting artistic.

Jo.. sitting, smoking, as usual.

Catching a tram at 5 AM, runing into a movie set.. just raised the friggin camera and already got shouted at, so only one bad spyshot of some "policemen".

Walking home. aaaaw.

Got on a train to visit my dear Mainzers.

Robin instantly took me out shopping for food.

Phil, unsatisfied with his day at university tried to drown his sorrow in beer. old-fashioned fatecoping.

Judith celebrating her african roots..

candlelight booze-up.

Goooood morning Judith.

Back in Hannover.

"why sssso seriousss??????"

Anna making that very special anna-face.

Totes Kapital.

Later thad day, Sprengel Museum.. Ran into Jannis and..

Karo.

Driving around in Hannover.. out-of-the-car-ography.

Mario got a bit over-excited about the fact that we were invited to a party.

Intergalactic?!?!?

Walking to Gretjes party.

..Phil already was there, quite a commited costume!

Does somebody recall that evil, strange cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

some mad-ass-robo-dance-action.

I stole Michi's head and started to argue with Jo.

- without words -

Jannis arrived late so had to catch up.

"just... just get me home..."

The other day, at "work".

Studio-class aka "Knut's Lightshow"

Roman and Sophia.

Knut, Kai, Heidi Klum.

Micha (pirate).

Anna going girlie by doing her nails in the lecture.

We put on some nice clothes.. well.. most of us... and showed up at some Vernissage.

The ultimate photo-critic.

Phil, calm.

After we got all wined up we went to Anna's place.

Aegi.

Mario purchasing some goods.

Cheers!

Erik.

Anna.

Another day at our place.. Mario at ease.

Fun & Games.. Ken Rockwell joined our circle.

Another boring graphic "street".

The other Anna, after university...

well, so far so good.

All that you can't leave behind. Pt. II

2008-09-22T19:19:00.024+02:00

issue #32

Part two of the pictures that piled up the last month(s). Finally moved to Hannover last sunday and had my first day at university today. Kinda excited about what's about to come, want to get going, to much do-nothing the last months.

so here we go again.

Family celebration. Meet Grampa.

Shot from above.. got noticed.

Little sister attacks me with laughter.

Grampa, in thought.

Actually, posing fot the camera, absolutely nothing happening that would explain that kinda face.. She's such a pro.

To Grampa's delight, wine was served.

Another day, a night at the Weinfest in Deidesheim. C.J. Spooner got his freak on.

Pille showing us that sweet laugh of his.

"Ich trink saure Rieslingschorle!"

Maxi, cool as fuck.

... and so was Zed. Returned her gang sign and kinda got in the frame I guess...

Marta, plotting world domination.

Christian & Graf bonding.

The Helm-sisters.

Michi.

Michi again.. Switched to B/W. Oh really? Yes.

Marta & Art "kinda like each other."

Dudes. Sadly, I spoil the coolness of this by totally loosing it.

4 parts of white wine, 1 part of sparkling water, 0,5L of pure joy.

Marta, critically (eyebrow!) testing if the wine meets her standards.

Sirko, obviously fond of his drink.

Robin talking to blonde curls. I'd guess.. Hanna.

Hot chicks like TOTALLY making out.. totally.

Nathi & Sirko.

The boys. It was getting late.

4 & 1/2 people.

Scheidel & Graf talking about old times, probably.

That night's entertainment. Guitar Hero!

AnneP & Nathi in b/w...

.. and in color!

Phil, up-close.

Nothing but happy smiles.

Some douchebag was getting married the next day so he and his buddies decided to act like complete fuckheads and did totally craaazy stuff.. like getting into the fountain.

These two already went through with it. Yay, first marriage picture I EVER took.

The other day in Wachenheim, mum returned from a flight and said hello to little Falko.

YUmmy!

"Kaffee, Junge, weisste ueberhaupt wie lecker das schmeckt?"

Robin. On our way to a Mars Volta concert in Frankfurt.

Viola.

Got a liiittle bit lost, so Jan tried to figure a way out of that mess using some kind of.. googlemaps-paper-device...

So I put on the good 'ol 50 1,4 and took some face-photos. (a much better word for it as the overused "Portrait" imo.)

Robin, up close, getting a Falaffel.

Ou well.. An evening out with the boys at the Kaffemuehlchen..

..and an accident-multi-exposure that illustrates that evening.

Another night at the Kurpark.

Robin passed out.

Next day, grilling at phil's. Sadly, weather wasnt on our side and it came down on us pretty hard.

Robin lighting up.

Phil, still in good mood. "Des zieht vorbei"

Robin inhaling his first bottle of beer.

The chef heating things up..

Christian came by. Last frame of that night, The thunder-storm got going and we got in.

A day at the pool with some handsome men.

Jan.

hot legs.

Took the camera for a quick dive.

Graf kickin it.

Michi enjoying a cheeseburger Graf found in his bag.

Jan, probably reading NEON.

Some more people divejumping. that the word? wha`eva.

We, the Germans.

Later that day we gathered at the Kurpark and Phil and I feasted.

Spent some time with the dog and took some boring "dude likes his pet" pictures.

My dog, the cow.

Doggyhead surrounded by sweet, sweet bokeh.

Another day we planned on spending at the lake. Didn't work out THAT good, after 4 or 5 minutes of actually beeing there, all hell broke loose.

..yep..pretty much.

Thassilo wasn't so fond of the mild shower.

It even started to hail. ouch.

Phil's back.

Jens probably making a chicken impression..?

Feet in dirt.

Some people maintained their good spot at the beach and built some kind of hut. Brave soldiers never abandon post.

last frame. Too scared to change film because of the.. slightly highered humidity.

Another sunny day spent at Marie's place.

ingredients.

Hannover, airport.

The view out of my room in Hannover.

Me sitting on the floor.

Back in Frankfurt, rainy sunset.

Having coffee in Mannheim with Viola.

Now that's that... me tired, me done.

take care,
f.

All that you can't leave behind.

2008-09-08T23:11:00.044+02:00

issue #31

starting off with an U2 title/quote... this can't be good. Sitting in my room at my mother's house and watching a great Chuck Norris movie. ( Braddock: Missing in action III // http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094792/ ) Chuck rescues about 30 children from fierce asian villain, using heavy machineguns and his feet. He SO wins at life. The only way to suffer through this is to occupy myself with something like posting something. 20 rolls have piled up since the last post, so let's cut the crap and look at some pictures, shall we?

this first frame is actually more of an end. In terms of dramatic composition this must suck big time.

Sitting on the windowsill, shooting into the crowd i.e. what's left of 'em.

Boring still-life by a drunkyard.

Surprisingly, I was the first one in the morning to re-enter the Kitchen.

...or so I thought. Christian already had been to the city to do.. whatever Christian does.

Rise and shine, buttercup.

Phil & Maddin are currently facing some tough relationship problems.

Zeit für heiße Flirts!

the holy nerd-mug.

Robin joined ur breakfast as well..

Christian reaching out for Phil's penis.

The floor of a madman.

Judith's razor.

Given the fact that I was still a tiiny but hung-over Christian volunteered to drive.

Some days later in Wachenheim, Sister in her homedress, probably watching desperate houswives.

Falco.

Later that day at Akey's place.

Judith.

...and Akey.

/

The very last day of school, Hr. Doerner seemed quite sad.

Ergin paid as the honours and actually SHOWED UP.

In deep thought.

Rat Pack.

Sarah just couldn't believe it was over...

group1.

group2.

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Elmar.

Since it was still to early to actually get hammered we decided on celebrating our last day with breakfast. Wal, Heidelberg.

Elmar feasting.

Sarah smoking.

Contemplating.

She had the ambiguous honour of sitting across from me.

"weissch ned lan??"

Tob showed up in the usual deus-ex-machina fashion.

People smoking.

Mulu & the giant hand.

Benny. Some french students approaching in the bokeh.

"Well... I guess that's it.."

/

Mother.

Went to Hannover to look for a flat.

Airport.

Subway.

Since the CL is so darn silent, I passed unnoticed.

lonelygirl15 at the platform.

Goood mooorning Hannooover.. Met up with Michi at the central station and from thereon we looked at some places.

Throw away your television.

Vertrauen schenken, von 8-16 Uhr.

Had a break after another walkthrough.

This is actually the building which houses us now :-)

By the maschsee.

Some woman looking at boats.

At Shoo's place, telephoning his girl back home.

Quite tired, we were.

So it was time for some R & R.

/

Back home, supper in the garden.

Sophie posing like a pro.

Something made her cry.

Another day. Koni made a withdrawal with his 9mm.

Had some beer in his garden.

alcoholic-aesthetics.

Koni gave me some of his blood as a present. What a perfectly normal thing to do...

Sun & Beer at the Kurpark. awesome.

A very bright day.

Meet Art, the friendly Neandertal.

/

Hm, that is.. yellow.

My feet vs. Art. Go Feet !

Calm.

Cool.

...yeah... whatever.

By 2 PM we had the keg DONE.. *touches himself in the crotch in a very manly fashion*

"oaaaaaaaaah"

Truman Capote received a love letter.

Poison Ivy's secret lover.

..if only...

Koni in preperation for an eyebrow-competition.

Priska, Art's mad dog.

Happy Christian.

Judith.

/

Back to the Future.. O_o. Well, back in Mainz at least.

*mumbling*
"We can't understand a word if you don't take out that toothbrush"
*mumbling*
"JUUDITH!!"
*angry mumbling*
"..."

Robin in his favourite place.

Judith catching some air.

Chinese? Arab? Pizza?

We went for some Kebab at Nemrut's.

CUT. and we're... back in Hannover. Michi sleeping like a log.

On my way back home.

Saying goodbye without words... that sound's pretty gay.

Airport again, waiting for boarding.

Not exactly what one would call 'level', wha'eva.

apron.

Back in Frankfurt.

Is that the case, yes?

Classic.

Some guy smoking.

Green & Orange.

/

Had to wait some more at the airport, so I put another roll in the CL.

Met up with le sister who returned from Hamburg.

Mum picked us up and brought Falko along.

Outofthecarography.

Cleaning out school.

Mr. Rogenwieser kickin' it.

Ye olde Camera... Gone now.

Wine at Koni's place.

Err...

Sweet Hanna resting her head.

What goes best with expensive white wine? Frozen pizza!

Graf emerged from nothing right in front of our eyes.. Godsend.

...and disappeared again without a trace.

Aaah some good ooool' fashioned supper.

And weee're back in Marburg.

Koni scared shitless.

Kathi, some medstudentfriend fo Hanna.

Another night, veeery late, in some bar that has "coma" in its name.

Ivory-anna.

Bar impressions.

Outside the place, round 4 AM or so..

How did that slide in there.. another party, earlier that night.

The next day, youtubing.

Bored, so I took a shot of my shoes.

After returning from Marburg we went for some public viewing at the beer garden.

Bathroom-Still.

That's actually the night with which that post began.. only earlier.. O_o.

Tequila-testing squad in Mainz.

"cheeerio"

It was late and we needed some more juice, so we spent 7 Euros on a bottle of lame Bordeaux.

/

wtf? That's.. Berlin.

Bathroom of our hotel room in Berlin.

...aaaand we're back in Koni's Garden. This is worse than 21 grams.

Hanna vs. beer.

The best beer you can buy for 75 cents.

Graf quenched in some shuteye.

We met Maddin.

..and went straight for Victor's terrace.

Evil-eye Koni.

There's that smiiileee.

Gone, obviously.

Victor, who recently returned from Portofino.

Last day of photography school again.

Smiling D.

Judith in dim light, most likely at the storyville.

The next afternoon, some get-together in our family backyard.

Grandma.

Riding our ..hogs.. to Maddin's & Jan's birthdayparteeey.

"Phil: Cotton shirt with graphics, C&A, 25 €"
Schäfer took over the BBQ and didn't abandon post as long as people wanted to eat.

Koni and Robin in discussion about... early.. Kinski...

Schäfer & Ulm in discussion about steak.

As said, the brave soldier held his position.

A late customer.

Pille checking on the BBQ station.

The other night, watching football in Judith's garden... Lost the EM, even with Koni and Esther's faces covered in patriotism.

Well.. that was like the first half of rolls.. Stay tuned for EXCLUSIVE Wurstmarkt coverage later that month !

take care,
f.

When in Marburg, do as the Marburgians do.

2008-07-26T12:40:00.028+02:00

issue #30

As we stroll through the dark forest that is our lust for self-destruction ... what the..? Nevermind. Introduction.. em. Hanna studies Medicine in Marburg. We like Hanna. We are Anna, Koni & myself. We got in a car, drove to Marburg, made fun of Hanna's city, friends, flat, clothes, face, got drunk, drove back home. end of story. The pictures are as snapshotty as snapshots do get, but whatever... 4 Rolls, 2x Trix, 2x Superia200, always with the "leica" and 40mm f/2.

Yeeep, that's her. Hanna in her lovenest.

Hanna in the Supermarket. We had great fun shopping for dinner & breakfest.

More natural smile.. As you can see, since I modelled more of supermarket-scenery around the main-subject of this photograph, you get a way better sense for the location and everything you associate with it. goosh I'd hate myself if I'd be like that. Or wait.. Am I? Geehs...

As every young gentleman, Koni enjoys the company of pretty & educated girls. Had supper in Hanna's kitchen.

Mysterious shot of Anna / Anna's hair.

My Rangefinder problem #1: Overlooking things in the foreground of the frame, like the top of this Volvic bottle. But I sworn myself an oath to post every god-damn picture on which Koni looks even the slightest bit gay, so this qualifies for posting.

In rapid conversations.. and started to get boooozed.

timber framing all around.. Since Marburg wasn't really THAT interesting for any party in WWII it has a lot to offer to American tourists. Hanna having a smoke & a beer + ranting about Marburg.

Instead of going out we all hid behind various computing devices, checking mails & ebay for the current prices of 1000k gold in WoW.

...aspiring doctors looking at videos on lobotomy.

Moneyshot. Tits, macbook, beer.

It was pretty hard to take this shot without any falling down buildings.. most of them weren't built using a water level.

Turned this to b/w to make it look more becherig.

Leica, leica.

Some Impressions from Hanna's flat... If Pippi Longstocking wouldn't be so fancy living in a Villa, her flat would look a lot like Hanna's I guess.

Meaningless waste of film.

If you sit on the crapper and look in the mirror you can see the reflection of a Henry-maske Photograph that has been put up on the wall over the toilet. Me like.

More Nerdiness.

Macbook on the Hip + Max Goldt book + Glasses = superindie.

"uuh don't photograph me uuuhuhu". Shut up, filthy prostitute. That's what you are. A prostitute. There, I said it. Big whoop. Wanna fight about it?

Ah-ha! Switched to Trix + 2 at that time, but that roll isn't scanned yet.. So just imagine some frames of people watching football & drinking beer. Done? Ok, Moving on.. the next morning, Trix +-0.

Back to Nerdiness. Hanna was quite jumpy that day since she had an IMPORTANT UNIVERSITY EXAM coming up in the afternoon.

Koni switched from Max Goldt to NEON... one large plate of patheticness (yes that's a word.. now.) for the young gentleman with the gay stockings, please!

If Hanna would be alone on the bed I probably would print this ... but Anna ruined the frame, thanks Anna, Way to go.

window sill.

Nerding around, and round, and round...

Finally we got going.. Hanna to her exam and Koni, Anna and me to SIGHTSEEING! First thing: the palace. to get there we had to climb some stairs... good sign on the way. Translates "Kids play here".. F**** !!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Hum Rocky theme... now!

The Nerds from the physics department of the university built a camera obscura to trap people inside for like 20 minutes inside to torture them with bad jokes.

Anna (sceptical.)

To Infinity... and beyond!!!

Old people making out.. Awesome! Took some frames, on those I got the framing right I screwed up the focus and vice versa.. This is as good as it gets.

Anna (in thought).

Anna (in Camera Obscura).

Oh give me a break.. this is too fucking easy. Koni, struggling writer from San Francisco who recently found out that he has the jungle fever and is gay.

Like it, dunno.

Anna's so emo that she insisted on holding hands.

.. and it lead to more phyiscalness.

Since she studies history of art, Anna knows quite a load of stuff about churches and architecture. Here you can see her in perfect unity with what she loves. churches & architecture.

Poor Ingo, Few people still dock at his Fotoinsel/island.. Everythings circling down the drain thanks to those darn digital cameras.. !!!!! Fuck em!!! Analog kicks your ass while fighting spidermonkeys on a jetski driving down the Nanga Parbat! Am I right, Ingo??

Would you like some ASS with that?

Suddenly, all the townspeople were like paralyzed! Could it be?? A CAR going through Marburg! You could hear a single pin fall down.. After the car was gone the townspeople gathered and shared their impressions, whispering, with that special glow in their eyes ...

color again. After the sight-seeing part Anna decided that we should get beer and cigarettes and go rent a pedal boat. But because we are so good friends we waited for Hanna finishing her exam so she could join us. Waiting time at the University.

simple, straigt, graphic, me like.

yay for color.

Anna was getting impatient. To her defense, almost 3/4 of the people taking the exam already quit, but our little Lebowski achiever Hanna used all of her time.

Hungry? Just come to Subway and create your very own Sub. Delicious, fresh, goooood for you.

Shot Vertical because I never do.

Photo Studio Laackman. His display shows the wide spectrum of photography.. well. let's see. On the left we have.. tits in black & white.. and on the right... tits in color. q.e.d.

Ah, boats, right. What great fun.. What could possibly disturb the fun and relaxation of a boattrip accompanied by beer? Right, the French. Some Asshole-exchange-students-whatsoever continously attacked our boat and shouted ridiculous curse words. We didn't retaliate since we kicked their asses hard enough in WWII.. SHAZAAAM! Seriously, they were a real pain.

Not the French, just some other happy sailors beeing unable to steer.

Anna, beer.

Red & Green.

Is there a smile??? Awww...

Hanna with my shades.. adorable.

Hanna with my shades in her hair.. adorable as well ;)

Anna getting her smoke on.

Later we joined a BBQ party.. It was somebodys birthday. Hanna didn't told us so so we were the asshole-birthday-invaders nobody knows.

Medstudentgirl.

More Medstudents.

Aspiring Medstudent. geez....

It has been quite some time that I was at a BBQ where so much salad and sauces and stuff was prepared.. usually it comes down to a one-way grill & beer.

Anna.

..we don't need no water let the motherfucker burn...

Back in Black & White. Medstudents.

Brought my 1980s Carena Flash.. Me like.

Deer in headlights.

Self + 2. Me, Koni, Anna.

Somebody introduced some weird finger-riddle..? And everybody was kinda clueless.

Heading to another party.. the only Medstudent who didnt go home because he had to learn.. although he had to.. Yassir. "Wie der Arafat nur anders."

Was getting more and more drunk so it got more and more random. At the party, badtaste of course...

Yassir & random chick. "Ey.. ich kann dir jede klarmachen... such dir eine aus..."

I should have just set the focus to oo but I just haaave to guess around.

Mad dancing!

Spent 30mins or so in the bathroom with strange girls pretending to be russian hookers..

artsy shot of Anna.

kinda tired..? I'm very glad with the TONES here if anyone cares.

good to know.

last frame, tired of typing bull. Marburg at night.. Shot some more that night but turned out quite shaky... Well, we had a pretty decent time in Marburg, thanks Hanna for showing as a good time in your new hometown. Good place to raise children I guess... or to move to when you're waaay old and feel like you'll die in the next couple of years... ;-)

take care,
f.

Berlin, Berlin !

2008-07-02T14:20:00.024+02:00

issue #29

Last month my photography class went on a field trip to Berlin. Lots & Lots of fun. Don't believe me? Well, here comes proof.
Totally lost track of what I'm shooting these days.. This should be Superia Xtra 400, hurled through the F80.

on the Train, great weather.

Most people took some sleepytime on the train. Props to Hanna for her AWESOME sleepmask

Michi slept like 5 out of 6 hours..

.. but was wide awake when we arrived at Berlin Mitte.

The room we would be sharing the next 4 days.

What - a - view.

Photography-kids... Who can stand 'em?

Walking to the sub. Our hotel was not reaaally that downtown, so it always took us like 30mins to be some place.

Flo & SarahUuu in the subwaystation.

15mm on the F80.. funtime. distance was like 12cm or so.

Goerlitzer park.. fun place! We were there for like 20mins until some cool black dudes tried to hook us up with some reefer. "you need some stuff you come here we over theaar!"

Sarah posing for Michi, Flo watching.

Switching to black & White.. Trix. Still quality-time at the park.

Some french singer came by to scrounge some smokes.

Michi with his sceptical face.

bicyclist.

Sarah lighting up.

Sarah throwing around rude gestures.

Watching the gaaame (Germany vs. Poland oleee) having a beeeer outside of some bar in Kreuzberg. Sarah raising her glass.. looking already slightly hammered. Well, to her defense, we've been drinking since 5PM or so..

Who needs fuckin huge plasma flat screens to watch a football game? In the end it comes down to the game itself and the people round you.

SarahUu's very own Flo.

Zed riding the subway.

Michi during breakfast... WHAT a buffet I tell you... EXCELLENT!

Later that day we were invited at the representation of our state to have free bretzels and juice. The Downside was listening to some MP for over an hour... Anna & Sarah had a pretty rough time keeping their cool.

yep... pretty rough.

Icons of power.

Aaah there he is. Trying to talk Michi out of cigarettes, even giving his qualification for doing so, which would be beeing an ex-smoker who smoked away 3 packs of roth haendle a day.. "pretty strong weed I tell you!".

Next roll, again Superia Xtra400, prooobably hold back 1 or to 2 steps.

Somebody getting his tan on.

Hm.. just liked his body stance.

Invasion of the tonguepeople! I like Elmar in the back checking frames on his Olympus E-1.. He took like nothing else but long time exposure stuff.. HEART.

Getting my spy-thing on and shooting some strange people without asking.. wooohoho I-am-BADASS.

Chilling on some green again, waiting for our tour of the Reichstag.

Took a lot of flagshots these days.. I guess the EM kinda got the patriot in me all excited.. 50mm 1,4 with Benny's polarizer.

After some trouble getting in.. cheers to Markus... we took our places and listened to some lady for another hour or so.

And thiiis is where it get's ARTSY. The idea of crop lenses on fullframe is not exactly NEW.. cheers to Tob.. but I've never seen a lens crop like that.. Bennys tokina 12-24 on the F80. SarahU on the Reichstag.

welcome to Germany.

Switched to trix again.

Interiour shot.

I really liked that framing, yes.

...and the whole flag thing.
Elmar aka 'the eye'.

Returned the 12-24 and put the rather conventional 35mm f/2

the long way down...

Muha. sometimes it happens that I get the focus right. Michi on the escelator.

'it was... THAT.... huge!' Elmar talking about... lenses I guess.

Benny was in quite a romantic mood.

Playing around... Sarah by the window.

rather dry shot, dunno.

hihi... 'WHERE are we and WHY aren't we where we're supposed to be!"

Some stylish black guy with an AWESOME murse.

Muha, up close.

Switched to xpan.

jewish memorial.

some tubes and lines and stuff..

*yaaawn*

Michi + taped crappy plastic lens = LUV

Some more colorshots from the representation.

there we go agaaain. flag.

E1 and its Elmar.

Uuh artsy. i shall call it... bureaucracy!

Just some Trendwhory shadows and light and blue and white and....

Later we went out for drinks and food.

'...tastes like chicken.'

there's that smiiile.. 1,4 wide open. teeth sharp, eye sharp.. NOT.

Sarah again.

Heading home, Michi & me in the lift.

Instead of some sleep some room partying awaited us. Benny.

Hanna already ready for sleep.

Benny joined us in our room, leaving the girls for good.

'Eeeeh Benny wenn ich wollte koennt ich dich SO platt machen..'

things got physical.

Where is he...? On second thought, don't wanna know.

Wooohooo.

Sarah U in subway coversation with Zed.

Some station musician.

Meet Sarah Bobblehead.

Jewish museum.

To get it, fullscreen it.

SCHLAAAAAAAAAND!

Waiting for the train.. So what is there more fun to do than shooting other people waiting for the train.

same old story... which train, which platform...

We made it to Wannsee and had some beer & sandwiches.

Thaaat's the spirit.

Elmar took a nap.

Riding back home, Flo & Sarah.

got my CL back...

Michi who had like 2 hours of sleep before heading back to the station to get on the train towards home.

goodbye, berlin.

Breakfast.

mhhhhm.. there's just nothing like good cup of coffee...

Anna giving me the evileye.

Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí.

Anna went back to sleep.

Some woman.

That's it for Berlin.
take care,
f.

Photographist Wanderlust.

2008-06-19T01:53:00.000+02:00

issue #28

continuing... more fresh frames. actually this post will be kinda rushed, it's 2AM and I'm downloading 2,5GB new scans and I reeely want to try keep up with this blog for the 5-10 people reading it =)

So here we go.

Dürkheim, Stadtfest, Judith.

Judith and Robin.. aaw hard light >.<. Graf likes to indulge himself... most likely with booze.

Hanna, die Unschuld vom Lande. ('the innoscent girl from the countryside" O_o)

Phil, beeing the adorable Sunnyboy he wants as all to believe he actually is.

Another day, drinkin at Art's.. kinda forget the occasion for this gathering of lonely souls seeking warmth.. oh geez it's getting late.

ZAUBERMICHA!! his shirt actually reads "/*no comment*/" ...

At the Finissage of our exhibition in some citybuilding.. pretty crappy, well, free juice and snacks.

Ergin, Anna, the back of Sarah's head.

Damian beeing most obviously just waaaaaay too cool for school. Would guess something in in between indierockstar and professional assasin. Well who knows..? :-O

And we're back in Hannover.. those +2 and +3 rolls seem to have always the fate of travelling through the camera for several times. Meet Milena, found her via couchsurfing.org because I needed a place to stay for the night before the entry exam in Hannover. Thanks for showing me around and taking my tension by talking non-stop. ;-)

in the underground... didn't stand on a chair or so, she's actually that 'petite'.

... and has some superweird glasses. selfportrait before going to bed.

Visited Tobman at work, pay some respect to his professional graphic-tablet-OS-controlling.

Had some chinese on a parking-deck roof. Soooo urban. Looks kinda trainspotting.

Later that day.. Mum gave me her car on the premise that I'd run it through the washing bay, so I did.

Back at my mother's house the sister prepared some delicious cake.

Is it coz' I'm cool?

Grampa turned 70, so everybody put on a tie. aunt, uncle, aunt's husband.

joyful celebration.

"EEEH MAN MUSS VIEEL MEHR GRUPPENFOTOS MACHEN!!" as Michi says... Well, here is one.

One boring Wednesday. So I called upon le Koni and we met at the lake for beer.

"Dylan ist Kafka!"

aawww.. the good life.

Lake stillife.. Does that qualify as a still-life? there's a duckie in it. And I didn't actually arrange all that by myself. God did. Let us pray.

Harr, some guys from Russia/random eastern european country ( NO OFFENSE, just can't keep the languages from each other, it's just all the same un-civilized jabberwocky.. on second thought: HELL YES OFFENSE!) decided to take a bath next to our spot.. They asked me if I could take a picture of them and show them on Koni's Macbook afterwards ("Entschuldige Sie, Kannschd du Fotooh machen von uuns und zeige auf Läptop?"). Yeah right. Just let me attach my W-LAN Transmitter to the FM2 and synch it..

HA! Now if that ain't a still-life my name shall not be Buzz Killington!

Koni ripped on me for my flowery towel. Do I deserve that? I do not.

Cool bikes and white laptop of unknown brand.

The other day in Koni's garden.. Meet Annika and Pongo. Pongo's the dog.

ordered shot from Annika.

Koni is beeing handed the telephone.

The other day in school, michi.

Shot some commercial shots (digitally of course(!way cooler!), just hooked up the FM2 to the flashes to get the last frame of the roll filled) in the studio. Mulu posing.

Aww, 2:30 that's it. Off Topic: If you need some good-ol' fashioned Hiphop to keep you going in late hours such as these, go out and buy "Center of Attention" by Pete Rock & InI ! Seriously, do it.

Going to bed.
take care,
f.

Nihilists! Fuck me.

2008-06-15T22:36:00.000+02:00

issue #28

long time no post, i'm like 30 rolls behind or something and right now i'm feeling the sundayish aftereffects of a week and a week-end of leisure. so there's really nothing left to do than just kick it back a notch, watch the big lebowski for the 16th time or so and wait for sleepytime. Quite some "new shit came to light" as the dude would say, but who am I to bore you with my blahing, so here we go, pictures, dude.

Sarah at the FH in Dortmund, waiting to get our portfolios back.

Another beautiful morning in Mainz with Robin and Co. I just love the kitchen wall's colour.

Judith rather serious, not a real morning person I guess.

Judith's adorable curls.

Anna was around as well, doing her best to look like some squirrel or something.

minimal, retro, stylized, more random words.

the view out of the kitchen window, mainzer dom.

reeflection yummy.

"my mother said, to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom.."

smiley faces + finger on the lens, very professional.

LATER, BACK AT THE LEAGUE'S SECRET HEADQUARTERS!!!

red-wine-eyed.

the camera seems to has been drinking as well.

The next morning. Robin decided to hide behind some pathetic artsy vinyl sheet.. what a show-off.

On my way home I stopped here, felt like capturing this lovely landscape.

Dropped my car by the garage, needed some serious fixing so I walked home.

Another day, a sunny one, YAY. Met up with Graf and some other equally hot chicks somewhere by the rhine in Mannheim.

random grass close-up.

as mentioned above, it was kinda sunny.

Jan shows his scars from 'Nam.

YAY for not beeing able to focus properly.

some feet, belonging to Tobe I think.

another random close-up.

Tobe from K'Lautern.

Stadtfest Bad Dürkheim, meet Marlene and out-of-focus Hanna.

Robin returned from one of his quests, namely acquiring every singly piece of vinyl the peddlar's market in DÜW had to offer.

It was my half-sister's 15th birthday, so I hurled my other half-sister into the car and brought her along to the family gathering at my mother's house.

After beeing bribed with cake, she stopped complaining.

Mother and birthdaysister, like how they have eye-contact.

Aunt Annette and lil cousin Anna doing some math homework.. both rather clueless.

I really like that one.

Carlo & Grampa.

Way home. Some traffic lights are just insulting.. after looking at the red light for two minutes or so I got bored and started to take pictures of Sophie strapped in her safety seat.

Another day, this time in Berlin. Again, Sophie beeing as cute as cute gets. It was my cousin's confirmation.

Sophie, again.

There we are... Constanze, grinning like a Cheshire cat.

men.

I strolled around the neighbourhood and took some terrible boring shots.

The other day, downtown this time.. Visited a friend to give him a my CL which needed some fixing.. luckily he has some very good Leica contacts :-)

Strolling around in the city like a homeless dog.

I shall call this... deconstructing Berlin.

In the S-Bahn, the city rushing by...

"Da geehnse grad vorne umme ecke un dann rechts, wa?"

Somewhere around Alexanderplatz.

Back at home, we met up in my kitchen for some beer, whine, etc.. Graf and Robin getting touchy.

"Ah, Le roi des indiscrets!"

Phil piloting the Mac while Graf took some time to think...

Another day, Mainz again. Anna Banana, yummy yummy.

Anna aka the coffee-queen.

Took a second one without Phil f**** up my background.

just some good ol' fashioned fun...

Judith going through some digital imaginary on the naikoon.

Anna on the phone.. SO to lazy to clean these scans, sorry.

We had an awful lot of home-made Sushi... Tip of the hat to Maître Robin.

Before hitting the town Anna showed her sad-serious face.

Welcome to Hannover. Entry exam for photography at the FH. Markus was quite joyful the whole time and didn't show any sign of stress or struggling or whatsoever.. enviable somehow.

Number 57 at work.. Thank God for the noble discipline of mashups..

After the battle...

Waiting for results. Got in, yay.

The other day, driving around for some photo-project of Anna.. She wasn't satisfied with the location I proposed.. obviously.

Christian's film was shown at a young movie video clip award thingy in Mannheim, so we all put on some bad-ass cool sunglasses and stopped by. Graf, Vera, Phil.

Graf and some poor Hotdog.

Judith going through the program.

Since you couldn't smoke inside, Robin was most likely to be met outside.

Christian, short-haired and all serious.

- no comment -

Marie hiding in her black curls.

the filmmaker...

and his team.

We decided to go to some beachbarthingy... Snap while walking.

Anna.

Phil & Vera.

Well isn't he the cool guy...

Anna duckie.

Heading home, later that night...

So much for now, more prepared and coming up these days...

Kiss the streets goodbye.

2008-04-27T18:37:00.000+02:00

issue #26

what a title, geese..
last rolls of my last stay in hongkong earlier this year, and another roll I left there in the fridge back in '07. :-) So, strictly chronological: some frames taken last autumn on Tmax400 +-0.

My room at the Hostel in Mirador Mansion.. cozy place !

same position, 180° turned.

Leaving the hostel this was your view down 16 floors to where the inner yard might be.

more "while-having-a-smoke"-ography.

Weather was quite ok these days...

Hongkong Island, shot from Kowloon side...

Classic cliché junk. Yes, that's what it's called.

Random people on random streets.

...good question, though.

Cab-detail, on my way to Koni's lofty residence...

Walked the last couple of meters.. that's the view from "up there".

Introducing; le konèy.

So, that was '07, now some fresh stuff, all frames taken on Trix with the lovely Fm2n and various lenses.. who would have thought. So, behold:

My stomach was quite rebellious on that day, so I struggled with myself wether to go down towards the city or not.. Well, obviously I got over it but after one stop on the bus it was FLOODED by students giggling and shouting and.. getting old & grumpy here. whatever, followed some of them around to find some new places.. creepy me.

Freedom. FULLVIEW!. =)

I always wonder how very old people (80+, and she sure was) receive such a city like hongkong around them.. constantly comparing it to how it has looked 40 years ago? Dunno..

I got obsessed with the traffic a tiny little bit..

the sigma 15-30 used on a 35mm fullformat really gets fisheyey on you..

...just like sitting next to Han Solo when he's hopping into hyperspace..

Damn these chinese schoolboys are hardcore.. It rained like hell and they are out for some basketball.

Yay for ghetto-shot.. through bars, deep...

Hopped on the MTR.

More "hey, let's take some pictures of passing cars with 1/15s"-tryouts.

"Turn left, PWEEAASE!"

nice clean & glassy structures in Admiralty.

Blade-runner 2d.

Slowly, the natural light vanishes and the scenery is lit up by itself.. Met up with Koni at the Computer Centre to spent my remaining Hongkong Dollars & to get Applestuff for Dad.

Afterwards we had some delicious vietnamese food, quite a nice start-off for the evening, despite Koni being borderline "funny"... I'll spare you the details.

Yeah. you're a Tiger. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?

A calm moment of calmness.

Later that night, at the Happy Valley horse racing course..

After spending some time on finding out how the bet-action works we actually got a chance to loose our money! How can a horse by the name of "Speed Fighter" NOT WIN? Darn hack..

We spent the rest of my last night in HK in some random bar in Wanchai.. Light wasn't that good blabla that's the only frame I can provide for like.. 3 hours or so of solid drinking.

Took a cab towards our beds, city rushing by..

Returning to your room for the last night of your stay, being slightly hammered and then realizing that you still have to PACK before you can leave in the morning.. priceless.

So, that's it with Hongkong.

Gotta go to bed now, photography class tomorrow.. If you're looking for some good hip hop these days you might take a look at Blue Scholar's "Bayani" ! Bigga-up M.F. for hooking me up with good music once more.. :-)

take care,
f.

And It Stoned Me...

2008-04-08T20:52:00.000+02:00

issue #25

G'day,
I am about fifteen rolls behind on the last post, so here we go. But first some Yays and Ohs: Yay, got approval for the next round in order to study photojournalism in Hannover, Oh for my Berlin Portfolio which got rejected, Yay for.. well. and Oh for my Dortmund portfolio still not being done.. of course there's only one to blame. right; society.

First roll, color, mostly Leica stuff, but did screw up again, the film wandered through several cameras and I produced some lovely double exposures. Some turned out as bob-rossish "happy accidents". Here we go.

Michi after a very nice "let's take a Sinar large format camera and try to act pro in public"-session. Sundawn over Heidelberg, sitting somewhere on the hill looking down, good stuff.

Went home and showered.

and it begins... Grandpa writing something / cityfloor.

car next to trashbin / some tree.

christian on bed / something greenish,treeish, blueish.

Ruchheim parking space / Adidas.

Back to Black. and White. It was Mum's Birthday, I wasn't in such a snappy mode, so only very few frames.

Mother bouncing around on the left side, Ursel in focus.

Mother decided to hide behind her super-awesome Canon Powershot xy, aunt and her husband to her right. Had a good time chatting with auntie and Ralf about the mystery of oceanic flight 815.

My aunt's husband, Ralf.

Standing around in the hall.. too dark, whatever.

Change of location, it was Marie's birthday as well. On my way in I bounced into good 'ol Sadam shining on the wall... there's that smiiileee.

Christian surprised us with some singing.

Last frame, afterwards I ..well.. let's just say I didn't take any more pictures . End of story.

Another roll.. Color again, Superia400. Back at Grandma's birthday again...

Chendalier watching over our every move.

Grand-uncle Dietfried through the flowers.

yay for "concept" "art".

erika, grandma, sophie.

more "concept" "art".

Found a banana in the staircase.. yummy.

The other day.. Went to school to develop some rolls, but before the darkroom work I treated myself to delicous cafeteria breakfast.

hihi... yeah right.

back at home, took the last frame in the garden, kinda like it.

Another night. Some Tri-X shot at 3200 with the FM2. Good 'ol Storyville, getting wasted / polluted without any reason.

Graf returned from Stockholm the other night, with good stories on swedish girls & Ryanair.

Judith returned from Lausanne, this time not only for a couple of weeks but for good..

Dr. Helm and I had a little chat.

It's too late to apologiiize...? Graf made some effort, Anne requested some excuse, can't remember for what.

"das flenst."

Good vibes between Phil & Anne again.. temperature's rising.

He couldn't believe his luck.

the smoke after...

Judith tried to reach Christian, while Graf deliberately tried to "ruin" my shot by moving "fast".. Gee I HATE drunken people.

Rather calm moment in a loud, loud, loud place.

The Graf.

After things between Phil & Anne cooled down he turned towards booze and Art.. not art as in oil-on-canvas-art, but as in Art, the cute guy with glasses.

Last frame of the night.. Judith was already like D'uuuuh.. Welcome home, princess.

Well, back to portfoliorizing, also the blogger interface freaks me out right now..
so long,
take care,
f.

Don't look back in Anger

2008-03-10T00:07:00.000+01:00

issue #24

Good evening Ladies & Gent's...

What a relaxed evening.. Stole some good white wine from the cellar, and was given a good movie by my uncle. One screen movie, the other screen blogging: Long live nerdiness! Saw the Moneybrother last night.. Great, great performance, but the Doormen were fotofascists par excellance.. every camera allowed, except for those with interchangeable lenses.. had the M7 with the 35mm in my pocket and well.. he found out how to deattach the lens so the Leica hat do stay in the car. *GRMPF*

hitting it off with a pathetic Oasis quote. Very specific post: christian, one of my dearest friends left our circles, leaving for his studies in Vienna. So, for one last time we went moderately wild in BAD Dürkheim downtown. Another quote which i'd consider fitting:

"I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

So, enough nonsense. All frames shot on Trix +3 with the beautiful Nikon FM2n and 35mm f/2 nikon glass. Developed in dragon's blood & elven tears ( 4 + 1 ) for 13 of your earthling-minutes.

Christian, out of focus, soon out of Dürkheim. Lucky Bastard.

Phil in all new gay cowboy clothes. ;-)

YAY a chick! Anne looking good.

The tension rose..

sensual seduction.

"..there's that smile...!"

Robin at the zenith of cuteness.

Jan, proud member of the Dharma Initiative.. yes we are nerds. big whoop, wanna fight about it?

Men.

Just plain coolness, not more not less.

Marie was not amazed by getting photographed.. as usual. Even Christian's motivation attempts were of no avail.

God.. we love beer.

Anne had a good time, most obviously.

Jan, all serious and listening and stuff.

I think this frame somehow captures Graf slyness.. ;-)

Ulm was around as well... After recovering from getting battered by same nazi-assholes the other night.

Phil.

Jens, Christian & Domme celebrating with Shots.

Carlos, sitting on the rear end.

What can I say... just good men. probably the best.

see above.

Domme blowing out some marlboro-air.

Robin lighting another one of those faggy super-slim-hand-rolled cigarettes of his.

Victor staring.

Phil posing.

Jan giving us a big grin.

Damn I love that shot. :-)

She'll probably kill me for this.. Hell, I should kill myself for uploading this! Marie engaging in laughter after we changed location from "Victor's Gemütlichkeit" to the "Storyville".

Robin, dead serious.

Christian, Robin, Marie.

Maddin, with his famous impish look.

Rather subtle self-portrait.

Phil loves Flensburger.. Who doesn't?

Last stop that night.. the notorious "Montmartre"... My former art teacher once told me that there you could even find one-eyed hookers.

Marie in hard light from the streetlamp.

Christian.. +techbla I admire the tones given the fact that this is +3.. god bless Kodak -techbla.

Bar still-life No. ... I have no idea.

It was like 4 AM already.. the will to stay up and drink more beer slowly lost against the will to just.. rest.

Marie's curls.

Last frame of that night... Actually hurled 3 rolls of Tri-x through the FM2n.. I like. Is nice. The weather was as shitty as weather gets when we left the montmartre at 4 AM in the morning.. So Marie & me grabbed a cab to my place, took a shower (because even the way to the taxi made us soaking wet) and went straight to bed.. what a great night out. Sadly, the last night of that sort given the fact that Christian is in Vienna right now. Without him.. well I'll spare you the girlytalk, life changes, change is good. period.

So, this time a very personal and honest:

take care CHRISTIAN,
f.

family, double-exposures and expensive toys

2008-03-04T23:11:00.000+01:00

issue #23

Elloo,
just returned from shooting some pictures for a photo reportage i'm working on for my portfolio. Pretty tired, drinking tea and listening to 'Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators'... aaaw. Besides shooting mediocre stuff for the portfolio, I of COURSE continue to shoot mediocre stuff for myself / this blog. So here we go, first of three rolls:

This APX400 travelled through two cameras before taking a bath in Refinal (3:30min at 21,5°, agitated every 30s, for the few who care) developer.. because I SUCK AT WHAT I DO i produced 10 doubleexposures.. 2 turned out "artsy" / cool. So.. first frames, Leica CL with the obligatory Summicron-C 40mm f/2.0.

YAY for Dad for producing a sharp image with the CL.

It was Grampa's Birthday so some HOOCH was consumed.

While the elder generation devoted itself to alcohol, Sophie was 'chillaxing' in front of the Dad-Mac.

Later that night I shot a still-life for my portfolio. ( the black bar next to christian gives it away, flash tripod fully extended.) Because it didn't went very well i gave Christian a call at midnight, 10 minutes he was with me, starting to bounce highly insane ideas of the wall.. finally we got something that I considered useful. Thanks mate.

The next day... I was eager to get my first CL prints, so I bugged Bettina at the pixelprinter to do it FASTER. She turned too quick, so out of focus.

art #1.

art #2.

art #3.

APX back in the FM2, this proves it.

Kicked-back evening at my house.. Maddin brought along "Das Boot". ( cf. the movie 'beerfest' ) SO we ordered some Pizza, drank absurd amounts of beer and watched 'Live Free Or Die Hard'... It's a man's world !

Das Boot Stilllife.

Maddin and Christian.

"I am the photofairy... BOW TO MY REIGN!!!"

She was pissed because I took her magic stick... reasonable.

Another day, another roll... Kodak Tmax400 + 2, developed in Refinal for 8:45mins at blaaahlbahnobodycares!! Woke up in Wachenheim, the night after I took the first pictures for the coverage... Half the film was filled with frames of it, but these are none of your concern ;-)
Ah, Camera is the sweet Leica M7 with the 35mm f/1.4 Summilux.. pleasure to 'work' with such sweet sweet equip, only have it till next monday.. Thanks Leica for lending it to me and thanks to Dad for.. well.. opening some channels. YAY for Dad!

Mickey-jar & Coffee, mjam.

Yes I wear PJs.. and I LUV them.

Shot most of the frames on 'A', not caring about exact exposure. Here the bright background fucks up the measurement and voilà, I'm tanned. Ah, and meet rubberduckie, my super-cool-awesome-cunning hat.

I was late for Grannys B'day so I hurled myself into my car and raced to the celebrations... Arrived quick enough to still catch the Soup.

Börnie & Sändi. I have no clue what they ware saying or what upset her so much.

Aunt Sig.

Börnie, Sändi and sweet Lilly.

Granduncle Clemens on the left.. Still refuses to give me his old Hasselblad 501 c/m.

Second serving for Dad.

I really, really like the expressions here. All three of them.

Cut off their heads to create some deep, deep "Kids are the future" picture. Kidding, I just can't frame properly.

The three little rascals started to violate the old piano, shouting "wonderful christmas" again and again and again...

Next Roll, Tmax 100 +1... Something went wrong here, Must have left it a bit too long in the developer, contrasts are way to harsh imo.

After the piano concert, everbody was quite relaxed, including grampa.

... maybe even too relaxed? the newspaper-bunch.. Clemens, Börnie, Dietfried.

Uncle Manfred fooling around with Louis.

hmmm.. as said above,.. HARSH CONTRASTS.

many aunts, discussing serious stuff.

Hm.. summilux, I'd like to.. plough you. very much indeed. "Tande Sig's" hair.

Prepared myself delicously delicous coffee.

scene of a battle.

Lilly.

Took a crap. hihi.

Spent some Leica-quality-time in front of the mirror, fooling around.. tack sharp. *drools*

Strolled around in the house, looking for some stilllife.

Sandy was full of glee.

The kids took the party outside, ignoring any warning about the temperature.

Sophie, waving. goodbyyeee.

that's it for now.. Still some rolls of the last weeks to come.. shot like a madman.
I also did some scans myself ( these are all scanned on a Fuji Sp-3000 by godfather tob) with my crappy Canoscan 8600F.. but that things gotta go.. really.. really.. REALLY bad. Anyone selling a good REAL film scanner?

so long,
take care,
f.

Time to catch up.

2008-02-23T12:50:00.000+01:00

issue #22

Some time went by, still working on my application portfolios... Berlin's already in the mail, Dortmund's still in production and Hannover's too. I don't take that many pictures just for fun right now.. And there's not much to take pictures of since I spend most of my time in school, in front of the computer or out shooting for portfolios. Buuut I still have some rolls of the past weeks and right now it's just me watching family guy and having breakfast, so here we go:

breakfast after getting hammered in Wachenheim.

Waiting in front of sister's ballet class to pick her up.

Next morning at school. Elmar's quite tired, spent the whole nite on the interweb.

Michi.

Time for a break, Ergin scouting for somebody who could donate a fag.

Being hip & cool photography-kids we rather experiment around with our cameras during theory class than listening. So here's some hand-held tilt-shift /lensbaby portrait of Zed. Taken with my 35mm f/2 held in front of the F80.

Zed's answer. Turned out pretty cool i think.

Christian presented his top-notch lecture on Jim Rakete.

Michi and Elmar kickin' back.

Have a break, have a cigarette.

sneakerlove!

creepy Damian.

"aaaaaaw-cuuute" Damian.

School. very interesting shot.

Hitting the road home.

Another Roll. Trix400 +3, made his way through two cameras actually.

Went by Robin's place to shoot some pictures for my Berlin portfolio.. Thought light would be to dim so I only took 3 or 4 shots at 1/15th and 1/8th. But well, the 50mm 1,4 is quite an okay lens. Ah, camera FM2 by the way . HEART.Mr. Dub dubbing.

Later that day, birthday celebrations at Anne's house. Leica CL & Summicron-C 40mm f/2.

Akey mysteriously grinning.

Anne, Anne, 1/2 Lisa. (from left to right.)

There was WAAY too much and too good food, Anne was quite 'done'.

The obligatory mirror.

12PM came by, and so came the presents.

Sandra in a calm moment.

Viola in a very rare calm moment. ;-)

Aaaand another roll, and another night out. This post is in no way sorted chronologically but posted in the sequence the rolls were scanned. Whatever.

At Victor's.

Graf beeing terribly cute.

Some girls joined our table, namely Anne & Anne aka the A-team.

Robin & Graf crossing arms in the course of some cigarette-action.

Anne's impooortant.

Victor pulling out another 30yr old barman-joke.

Everytime I sleep over at Art's place, that is the sight i get when I wake up. His couch is standing right under a dried blowfish with pretty spiky prickles. Some kind of damocles-fish.

Because Art is like super-nice he drove me to town where my car was parked.

At home I immediately took the living-room for myself and some still-life shooting for the portfolio. gosh how I hate still-life shooting. I plugged my iPod in Dad's Stereo and listened to some Cunnin' Lynguists (waaaay HEART) Sophie joined me in the living room, dancing to the music.

"like d'uh."

This time, Storyville, CL and TMAX400 +3.

Flens. The mandatory choice of beer in the Storyville.

Maddin, in complete contentment.

Christian lighting one of those nasty cigarettes. / A fag lighting a fag. bwahah.

Graf & Robin.. great couple, aren't they? I like what the motion blur is doing to Robin's fingers.

Some overexposed guy sitting at the bar.

"now just TAKE IT IN THE MOUTH WILL YOU?!"... pretty gay evening I guess.

back home in the kitchen.

Digital camera in a cup. Dad bought this like 8 months ago and it's already broken.

Last frame that night.

First frame the next day.. Call me.. well.. a girl but i SO love this Snoopy poster. In fact I love Snoopy & his attitude. He's like a Beta-Brian (familyguy).

Another day. Strolled around all day long looking for some Landscape for the Berlin portfolio.. Very bad day. Parked my car in the field next to the road, not thinking very much. the floor was still quite preeetty wet, so I wasn't able to get my car out of the mud.. I spent like 2 hours wandering around in the village next to where I was shooting, looking for a kind farmer who could pull me out.. Found one, but he didn't use his truck but his tuned E-class mercedes =)

lonely straw pt.2.

Industrial bokeh.

After the landscape-disaster I stopped by at Christian's office.

Batman was around as well.

After an unsuccessful day I made the evening as comfy as possible.. hot shower, white wine and Casablanca. -> sleep like a toddler....

"of all the gin-joints in the world she had to walk into mine.."

Another roll.. a nice night out in Mannheim.. Shoo's Vernissage and drinking with Marie.

Shoo, quite happy. Check out his work at www.fezoni.com

Ran into Marie in the bathroom.

helloo.

Takin' a leak.

Zed was around as well.

Sabrina, working and drinking at the same time.

Mr. Gläss was around as well.

Bettina, halfway-drunk.

.. 2/3 drunk. I really like how Marie enters the frame on the right =)

Marie & Zed.

Talked with that guy about cameras, smoking, live-music and can't recall his name.. damn free booze! I can only recall that I called upon him with a wrong name later the night and a corrected me and I was emberassed. I THINK it was.. Ralf.

Aaah, that guy I know. Mulu was quite stomache-sick. ("Ich koann nix bei mir behalten!" black guy with slightly bavarian accent. awesome!)

Hr. Richter and Shoo in conversation.

demonstrating how close the 35mm f/2 can focus to Zed.

two complete different approaches towards getting "shot". Marie does like not, Mulu like! alot!

Another photo-guy talking with Marie about some movies.. As I entered the conversation we quickly started talking about lenses, and apertures, and burnwidths which FREAKED marie out and was quite fun.. we were talking complete bullshit just to keep her in that "WILL YOU STOP TALKING IN FREAKIN NUMBERS?!"-mood.

The best thing about these Vernissage-things beneath the free booze is the free food. Zed's with me on that one.

Mel finishing off.

Jonas & Mel.

Met up with mum in some bar in Frankenthal. Catching up etc.. Took this shot of a guy alone across the room. Quote mum: "How can you DO that?! that's so rude!" O_o

On the way home I stopped by the closed supermarket. Nothing special.. Just something to honor the Opel Meriva.

Finally at home I prepared some tea and went straight to bed.

The next morning, post-shower. I really need to do the dishes more often.

Arrived at school, Rain's pouring down.. I'm not very motivated of leaving the car, so I took this lame shot.

Michi having a rather.. calm day as well. Sleeping in the darkroom FTW! 1/4th, only darkroom-light.

Judging the Prints.

Smiley Faces?

CL with Tmax100 +-0 this time.

The place I was born in. (the hospital, not the field.)

Took pictures of some guy with his his 340hps tuned BMW 3 series.. Took a ride afterwards, pretty insane.. It's a 30 years old BMW convertible with the engine of a 10 year old M5 BMW. Wolf in sheep's clothing.

Later at home.. Sophie's eating spot. And some baby literature.. "Die Schleimlöser retten den Wald". jolly good read.

The star of every family-meal. After 10 mins she gets bored and demands to watch some child-TV on Dad's Mac.

After Lunch I got dressed and hit the road towards Heidelberg to meet up with Michi.

We borrowed ourselves a Sinar p2 from school for this day and decided to hang around with it in public to appear professional.

Oldschool, baby.

Waiting for my turn.

Havin' a break from large format photograpy.

That's it for now.. Gotta get dressed now, weather's to good to spent it in front of the interweb, watching tv series or writing this pathetic nonsense.

so, as quoted many times by my good friend christian,

take care,
f.

the L word.

2008-02-10T20:33:00.000+01:00

issue #21

I went a little wild on eBay these days.. selling lenses, buying gear etc. Since I was in need of a small & good always-round-the-neck camera I got myself a cute lil' Leica CL (the CL actually stands for Cute & Little ) with the bundled Summicron-C 40mm f/2.0. When the package from Holland arrived I basically went mental and started to shoot some rolls of boring stuff to check how the lens & camera performs. Most of these shots taken wide open, still need to accommodate myself with the rangefinder-focussing.

All Images scanned from Supermini-prints. Shot Superia 400 & Portra 400NC.

hello world.

a door.

a drape.

erm.. well.. art?

bathroom.
lamp.

decided to take the cl out for the afternoon.

my beloved Sambas.

stump.

some street somewhere in the field behind the local IKEA.
evian.

more dull graphic frames.

I shall call this... "lonely straw".

Back home, watching House.

Strolling around the house again, looking for something to focus on.

"what are you doing in my room?!"

you better JUMP.

awww... sharp.

dramatic.

I really love her rather distracted moments.

chair, pooh, swing.

"here's looking at you, Kiddo..."

"take a look!"

Later, dinner. yummy beer.

Puzzling and no more beer.

Well well,
some pictures, hardly any words, better that way I guess.

take care,
f.