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This might be my favourite picture from 2015 so far … The colours, the light, the afternoon. And the weathered wood.
Taken with a friends’ Hasselblad on a playground in Berlin.
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herrengasse highrise
We noticed that open house was happening this weekend – just before it was over. So we quickly grabbed a few cameras, and off we went to see Vienna’s first high-rise building.
The weather was glorious and we happened to be on the roof taking pictures just in time for the golden hour …
And for a bit of extra nerdery, I brought my period-accurate camera: Both were built roughly at the same time. And while my rolleicord art deco is must have been completed a year after the building was, they’re from different times.
modernism and art deco
Happy accident.
Double exposure because old camera does no thinking on it’s own :)
But I quite like it.
last day of summer
I had to take care of some stuff “at home”, so I ended up visiting my grandmother on what seems to have been the last day of summer.
With the sun hanging just that little bit deeper than in the weeks before, the the mellow light is already setting the mood for autumn …
Also, chickens. And realising over and over that what once was home does not at all feel like home anymore.
It is kind of strange how moving around where I grew up completely fails to be anything but strange lately.
hi.
autumn sunset
Look what I just found :)
new toy
I got a new toy for my birthday :)
It is a really old camera, a Rolleicord Art Deco. I’ve been longingly staring at them in the shop windows of Vienna’s countless camera stores for over a year. And now it showed up as a surprise guest for my birthday party.
I’m still learning how to use it, but I think we will be friends sooner rather than later. I shot 2 rolls of film now and they look quite okay as far as I can tell. But they’re not scanned yet as they still hang to dry … Can’t wait to see them :)
And a quick look at the house next door. The focusing screen is so dirty it’s even visible in the picture. It was a bit hard to focus with all this dust in between, which is why we took the camera apart in the first place.
We opened the camera up to replace a few parts (to make it nicer to use, it worked from the beginning) and found what I think must be the production date. It says 12 September 1934. I love taking apart old stuff to find a date or name engraved somewhere …
And I think it has not been used in quite some time, we found a metal rod from what was likely the last roll of film shot in it. And that film still came on a metal rod instead of plastic.
close up
Maybe there will be another post on taking it apart and fixing stuff ;)
new old camera
A few years ago my grandfather gave me his old Canon AE-1, but I didn’t really use it as I found the whole film-thing to be quite annoying.
But now that I have access to a dark room (which also means being able to get the pictures right after shooting if I want to) it got to come out and play.
