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Photopresso ☕ #19: “Move upwards for great taste”
One photo, one bad poem
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Grau zu Grün
Ich bin teils hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang aufgewachsen. In Berlin der Hauptstadt der DDR in Eigenbezeichnung oder kurz “Ost-Berlin”. Meine Kindheit war offiziell geprägt von den materiellen und sozialen Errungenschaften des wissenschaftlichen Marxismus-Leninismus. Wenn ich an die Zeit zurückdenke, fallen mir ganze Nachmittage auf der Suche nach Kinderschuhen, Stromausfälle im Winter, Einschusslöcher in den Häusern […]
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Leere Baumkrone
Diese leere Baumkrone habe ich bei einem Parkspaziergang entdeckt. Die Gärtner schneiden die Bäume in diese Form, welche insbesondere im Herbst und Winter mit den Verästelungen sehr interessant aussieht. Der Park ist Teil der ehemals königlichen Schlossanlage und ich bin immer wieder über die scheinbare Verschwendung der damaligen Zeit fasziniert. Letztlich wurden Menschen dafür bezahlt, […]
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My 12 most used film recipes for Fujifilm cameras
Introduction One of the reasons I settled on Fujfilm for my professional (and personal) photography are the built-in film simulations and great output without the need for post-processing. Soon I found out about the community of people designing so-called “recipes” intended to mimic film stock or the look and style of other famous photographers. I […]
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My life in cameras part 11: Fujifilm X100T review
Last time I wrote about how I lost my creativity and inspirations for photography. I was just buying shiny new toys instead of observing my surroundings for interesting scenes. It ended with me selling all my equipment because I thought that photography was simply no longer an enjoyable hobby of mine. And that is alright, […]
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From grey to green
I grew up in a country behind the Iron Curtain that was full of the physical advances of scientific Marxism-Leninism. Whenever I think about this time I remember the color grey. Everything was drab and grey. Of course the new pre-fab city districts with their uniform apartment blocks had grass and trees in between them. […]
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Empty Tree Crown
This is the beginning of a series I want to establish on this blog. I will simply pick a random image from my collection and try to write something about it. I took this picture on a stroll trough the park. They crop the trees into these ball shaped crowns. It looks especially interesting in […]
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