this is officially my first film blog post. on my recent trip to germany i took pop’s film camera, and loved it. the experience of taking a photo and having to wait 3 weeks to see it is… frustrating… unnerving… and (finally) so rewarding. the camera is an argus 21 (version 1) markfinder (no rangefinder here) manufactured between 1947-1952. Pop bought it brand new from the store, and it was passed to me a couple of years ago. i immediately had it repaired, but until this trip it mostly acted as decoration. I was shooting on Fujifilm neopan 100 acros film, and had it developed at E6 labs in atlanta. i was astonished with the results from the 64 year old camera, and will be using pop’s camera on a much more regular basis.
here are a few of my favorites.
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Wonderful!!!
Wonderful stuff. Really love the trains and the rainy day shots. Something wonderful about shooting with old film cameras – I really need to do this a bit more myself.
^view from the hotel room. frankfurt is germany’s only city that allows skyscrapers.^
the next few photos were taken in the shopping district which is Germany’s “5th avenue” in “MAINhatten” (nicknamed for the Main River)
^this dude started chasing me trying to get money for taking his photo with his mini horse. his sign translates roughly to: Circus Kramani, thanks for the feed donation for 30 circus animals.^
^this photo will be hanging on my wall soon.^
^there are thousands of locks on this bridge with couples’ names engraved or written on them. the only other time i have seen something like this is at the great wall of china.^
^this is probably my favorite photo that I have taken so far on this trip; it’s a wall hanger also.^
^the frankfurter is kind of a big deal in frankfurt. i don’t know how many meals i had that were sausage, potatoes, sauerkraut, and beer. within 1 day of coming home I was already craving german food.^
^i checked out the museum of modern art, and got to see some of andy warhol’s work. not what i was expecting in frankfurt.^
^this was the first attempt at taking the photo below, long exposure, no tripod, camera moves, and photog just started waving it around in frustration^
^i headed back to the mall to do some people watching… i wanted you to have a feel for the people^
^this dude has crutches strapped to his backpack… impressive^
^if you cannot afford housing the gov’t will pick up the tab, so there are no homeless… just wannabes^
^the red bowl is his food bowl, the yellow is for charity. i never got the impression this dog had it rough.^
^another mini horse on display…^
^this bmw was parallel parked between 2 other cars, and was swiftly lifted onto the back of the truck.^
^i made some friends at this “art supply store”. you can check out some of klark kent’s (on the left) work at www.klarkkent.de.^
^here is one of klark’s pieces in downtown frankfurt… it spells kent^
^this was an ancient fortress that is now one of the best damn restaurants in frankfurt^
^germany has tons of street art, that is about as bad as crime gets. ironically this is the side of an old prison.^
^this smart car just gave the middle finger to the jag and bmw that didn’t leave enough room for another car^
^lufthansa airlines had a big party during their strike, and we got to see a free concert. we were not worried, we flew delta.^
^frankfurt is a large banking center in germany, so of course “occupy bankfurt” was there^
^these guys were all set. tepee, check. fireplace, check. coat rack, check. today’s newspaper, check. recliner, check. mini trampoline, check. job, nah.^
^it’s time to leave frankfurt and head to aachen^
^the art is impressive, and so are all of the holes in the wall.^
^it is hard to tell from this small image, but this is a combination of 54 individual images. each of 18 pano shots were first HDR (3 shots 2 ev apart) then stitched together^
^a rainy night in aachen. this is their town hall^
^i experimented quite a bit this trip with my “pop’s” film camera, i will post some when I get the film back^
^we took a day trip through 3 countries. we made a stop in malmedy. you WWII buffs may be familiar with this area.^
^the three photos above were not taken with the film camera. this is an infrared lens on my main camera^
^windfarm in netherlands^
^downtown burssels, belgium^
^the Autobahn was even cooler than i expected. i promise this is the fastest we went…ish (176 kph = 109 mph)^
^it’s crazy to think that 67 years to the day my grandfather was standing in this same place watching all hell break loose, and thanks to him I can sit here and enjoy a beer. i just wish he was sitting across the table with a beer of his own.^
^taken from the tower of the Bridge at Remagen (former)^
^Rhine river^
^i’m a big fan of chuck close’s paintings. this was on the side of a museum in frankfurt^
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Really enjoyed your perspective of Germany and its people, art,
Really very good photos.
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