random photos from vienna. taken in september/october.

olivier zahm

early in the morning before we left.

maybe too early.

pissbreak

one of my favourites

reini and fredi

hacki

geekstuff

caveman. last two frames taken with the MJU btw.

aschi

www.culturalskatestore.com tour to prague.

first beer at the apartment, 250m2 apartment for 10 people + another big apartment for 4 guys. nice.

lightning test turning out like a fashion shot.

frontside flip by simon.

later that night. bs pop shovit by hörgsi.

failed attempt to crack marble by hörgsi.

david

hörgsi watching his terrible bail.

later at home. pic by jacksn.

sturzguru

ollie by piet.

pissing of simon with the strobes.

switch frontside flip by schmandi

simon

happy armin after landing a trick.

aigsn

me + beer + frontlight. taken by andi or piet. dunno.

at the pool. david, frontside crail grap

fs smith

backside smith hackman

the crew smiling.
hörgs, simon, schmand, aigs, simon, reini, pivo, guru, armin, fredi, joe-anus, ruelf and me. jacksns missing.

going home. big thank you to fredi and reini, cultural for sponsoring this. big thank you aswell to sebastian for lending me his flash triggers and kasi for the 85mm lens. great lens for skatephotography, most of the entry was taken with it. also very happy i finally got some flashes to make some decent skatephotographs.

BW stuff will follow as soon i find the time to develop and scan. can’t wait. started to appreciate the d300 and digital photography though. question of exposure. cheers. aschi

more summer09. had to go to vienna a lot to find a new apartment. finally found one and got my new keys yesterday.

thats me in the mirror… DOF a bit too shallow. but couldn’t stop down. 125asa

BBQ + thunder and lightning

david jacksn and me on our way to vienna. weekend at the w-loch.

my sister on vacation in austria.

3 generations, mom, grandma, sister.

aschi

some frames from upper austria.

this one actually was taken back in may/june with the olympus MJU2 on 125PX, gotta love that little camera.

tweety

oh yeah, one more from vienna. luki.

mum

grandma

thomas and paula

randis at hoizingerbauer, most + jause.
digging the tones in this one. apart from some watermarks the negs are starting to look great imho.

dad

simon + i love beer cap

simon, white trash outfit

david

at my uncles, he taught me how to bake bread.

ulli

ulli, onki woifi, mum dad, mine and leo the dogs shadow

some sheep, actually i really like this one… d’love to portrait more farm animals

leo.

thanks for watching, aschi.

some random shots from spring09. leica r4s+50 summicron, leica m6+35mm summicron + couple of rolls tmx100 and tri-x.

piet

aigi

chords n coffee

simon

alter nordbahnhof with jacksn. loving the tones of tmx100 in these…

balkonia

mario and clemens, classmates, geektalk, beer, schnitzel.

went back to the station to shoot some 4×5 with lukas

very nice of him to help me, the 4×5 is a monster

will go to vienna to develop 10-12 rolls tomorrow… skipped lots of stuff from spring cause i haven’t been blogging BW stuff from vienna in a long time.

finally some stuff from marrakech.
sorry for all the dark stripes on the right side and the scratches (which are hard to see on 800px anyways i guess, well at least the smaller ones). efke25 tmax100 trix400 m6+35 r4+50mm in no particular order.

da gang

too bad i missed the 3rd one.. well.. wrong camera i’d say.

one of a very few efke25 shots that turned out nice. (but still has some weird flare on the glasses) first and last time i bought this film.

quite a lot portrait format

aschi

some more hc max2000 focus free. shot on kodek E200 slide if i remember right. probably expired in the mid 90s.

altogether i might have taken 4 or 5 hipshots with my “serious” cameras. with the “retarted” hc2000 it’s probably 70-80%. most of them just like this… i have to admit i have fun doing this.

some colors from vienna.

sarah

bad weather for weeks

me and some prints at school. taken by lukas.

bye
aschi

some digital BWs from morocco. taken during a rainy car ride. obviously.

bye. aschi

if the weather’s not getting any better here in vöcklabruck i’ll be blogging every day

more digital frames from morocco. been playing around with colors in LR and PS this afternoon. tried to get natural but not boring colors, contrast etc. here are some of the results.
photos are not very special. just thought i’d share some of the beauty of this country.

again nikon d300 + 18-70mm 3,5-4,5 and 35mm 2,0

taken in february and april 09

maybe a bit too much sky recovering. blame lightroom 2.

april from now on

hui… some golden hour shots.
cheers, aschi

taken with nikon d300 and 18-70mm 3,5-4,5 (out of the car)
i hate editing color. HATE.
enjoy the ride.

aschi

some more frames from the countryside. february 09.

very ugly dark stripes on the right side of these… negs are OK. scanner problem… oh yeah.. and lots of these are scratched.. but i printed some of the badly scratched ones already – no visible scratches on 30×40.

the market photographs from the last entry where taken in the same village.

first time i used the 90mm f4 M rokkor

zaida

finally some frames from morocco. these were taken during my last trip in april. i shot much less that time (like 3-4 rolls, one on sensia though)… so here are some of the BW frames.

all tri-x @200 +m6/35mm

at a market on the countryside. as you can see photographers are not very welcome.

parking space for donkeys. though this is a rather small village there are lots of people going to this market from the even smaller surrounding villages..

hundreds of donkeys i swear.

bauernkrapfn moroccon style.

sudoku.

monsieur geerdts.

achmed and aziz

the owner of this beautyful place is a very nice woman from switzerland and a friend of my parents. she’s running this place for “anti-mass tourism” people. we visited her for dinner. last time i’ve been there was in 06. shortly after i got my 1st DSLR. eos 350d.. i had no clue what “iso” means back than and had no real clue about aperture/shutter etc… but i used “manual” mode because i thought that’s the way to do it seems like this was a million years ago to me now. she still liked the pics i took and even put it on her website. http://akrich.com/galerie3.html in case you’re interested. nothing special photography wise… but if you want to see some more of this beautyful place check it out. there’s some more galleries from other photographers as well.

some more colors. fujichrome provia400 slide film (expired 97) + my little new “35mm holga” DS-max hc2000.

time travel photography

stupid cyberlab cut into the frames on every single stripe….

mister wolczak(kaiserstraße 8 ) does a better job. for all the viennese out there… too bad he doesn’t process E6. so here some c41, kodak gold200 that i bought in marrakech, not expired. exposed at 200. taken with m6+35mm summicron

went to the prater with sarah, nice coincidence i had color loaded. the hc2000 would have been nice aswell… but it would have been way too dark for it anyways.

love the colors in this one.

aschi

got myself a new camera – “DS max hc2000″. not as fancy as the name would indicate. bought it at the leicashop fleamarket. this camera, a loup and another camera alltogether cost 1€ so it’s not like i wasted lots of money… just found it’s a fun camera.. probably the most simple camera you can possibly built for 35mm film. it has one aperture and one exposure time and a fix focused plastic lens, no bulb. sounds like a bit like a downgraded holga for 35mm . anyways… also got like 10 rolls of expired film for a couple of €s so i wanted to give it a try. don’t think i will use it again… i thought the aperture/exposure prob. is smth. like 1/100s f/8 which would be fine for daylight… but i guess it’s smth. like 1/250 f16. the first roll which i mainly shot during a sunny day is still underexposed at least 2 stops. i used expired asa400 film so this might be a factor aswell.

“focus free” at first i really fell in love with this camera… but the results are quite disappointing.

these are some of the “well exposed” ones.

but the really interesting thing is that i have very similar scratches to my BW stuff, taken with completly different cameras and developed by myself. i always blamed myself for the scratches…

but this roll has been processed by a lab and has the exact same scratches… which leaves one plausible reason. the scanner. anyone ever experienced smth. like that with a nikon V ed or other nikon scanner?
i mean… sometimes i have seen scratches on BW rolls before scanning them.. but that was only a very few rolls from morocco… and the scratches were much bigger on these.. could be for example sand in the camera as well…
i think i have different kind of scratches for different kind of reasons… which makes the whole evaluating process a bit complicated. but i’m pretty sure the scanner is responsibe for these small ones… the strange thing is they are not straight (neither parallel to the film). the position varies aswell… very weird stuff.. no idea how the scanner could do that.

so if somebody has an idea about whats going on with all these scratches please let me know… cheers, aschi

it’s been a while.. some of you may wonder why there never was a morocco update… lots of it is scratched… don’t know why and lots of the new rolls have scratches as well. but the cool thing is you can’t see the scratches on the prints which are much more important than the scans anyways. but i still have to figure out the problem.. very weird… all i know it’s NOT the camera because i have them on the m6, r4 and also the MJU…
another reason is i’m trying to put an online portfolio (website ) together.. and there’s definitely gonna be some morocco stuff on it so i wanted to keep back some stuff. kinda boring if all the blog readers already know all the pics when it goes online.

so… here are some photographs from lubljana… jacksn, simon and me went their by car for a couple of days during the easter holidays.

gas station stop

this is where we stayed.. a small band practice place in a cellar. “bunker” is a fitting name for it.

slovenians have a good sense of humor. and they are very nice (especially to foreigners as we’ve been told)

jaka, our “tourist guide” and “hotel” and his girlfriend.

simon

at jaka’s place

decided to make a little trip to the sea.

forgot the name of the city.

simon and jacksn photographing

that’s the one jacksn took. i like his better.

preisung by simon, some digital stuff from now on

i like this little series

simon pissed off

back to film/da city

gotta be a good book

we took a little walk through the old city and went to see a castle on a little hill.

this actually is inside the castle.. jaka didn’t even know that spot because he’s never been to the castle.. i had no digital camera with me so used the M for skate..

the next day.. at the cemetery.
badly exposed, therefore looks like crap in color… never expose digital for the shadows no matter how deep they are

also brought the SX70.. so felt like taking a snap or 2 before going home.. anybody knows where to get some SX70 blend? all i have left is a pack of ten…

short rest on the highway… asked some guy working at the car wash to take a picture of the 3 of us. turned out nice! thank you

that’s it! might be the last entry on this blog… maybe i will move it to the website but i guess i will start a new one.. or maybe this will be the party stuff only blog.. not sure yet but i’ll let you know… cheers. aschi

sorry for having bored you with all these trees… more fun stuff today.

gei/timelkam… still some shots from the delinquent habits show.. i changed rolls there and haven’t finished the 2nd one until lately…

i think the blond girl threw up moments before that.. the other one obviously surprised i’m taking a pic…

found a zebra car on my way home… was driving that day so i went home a little earlier than usually..

and i felt like taking a last snap out of the car… the guy didn’t think it’s as fun as i did… or maybe i look like adolf.. whatever..

back in vienna finishing the roll.
guys wearing tummy shirts… some self tanning cream… dancing their ass off to 80ies disco… at bricks.

kamp and eni drunk.

still the same night at luftbad… most of the people there were from vöcklabruck too. like these 2.

take care of your drink dude on the left, nice pants guy on the right.

benni has that shirt that changes it’s color when it’s wet/cold… so jacksn tried that out and spit some beer on him.

there he is…

again with sarah… last weekend i guess.

i have much more fun than these… sarah asked me not to post them tough

later that night at concerto… pt-piet und piet

seen this guy for the first time on the lighttable. no clue.

martin from munich at chris’ place in vöcklabruck

chris

the thrill of anticipation

quite hilarious frame

more friends of chris from china..

he taught us how to say “fuck your mother” in chinese… and laughed his ass off when he heard us say it. fun people.

went out to KKDU in vöcklabruck. terrible place…

fancy hair

conversation with local pimp?

and a random guy stunned i’m taking his picture..

lin at the club.

thats it. there’s also some street stuff waiting.. but i will go to morocco for 10 days tomorrow.. planned to shoot a lot so i will be busy with developing and scanning for a while.. see you guys.

went for a little walk to augarten last week and have been to upper austria the weekend… so here are some frames… not quite my usual style… but most of the time i just take pictures of whatever is surrounding me.. so this time it’s lots of trees

too bad this one is scratched …

there’s not much to say about these.

upper austroa from now on. aaron and his brother jacksn.

the sun already started to set when we left so there was not much time for a long walk.

aaron

this was taken with the MJU back in december… haven’t uploaded it because most of the other MJU stuff was partypics.. i love that little camera..

m6 really helped me a lot in terms of proper exposing. APX100 / Xtol 9,75 min / 10s agitation per min. unfortunately lots of scratches… happend quite often during the last weeks… still have to figure where the problem of my workflow is…

went for a walk with sara, sven and amy (the dog). augarten vienna.

sarah wanted to take one of me… so i set time/aperture and told her how to focus… ahm well anyways, i like the shot the way it is!

a bit on the cheesy side.

just reuploaded all the pics because at first they still had the black/white borders from scanning. did not look good at all…
well… i will go to morocco on the 6th of february for 10 days. maybe there will be an entry before i leave. but there’s gonna be plenty of stuff when i’m back for sure! already have some stuff i want to do in my mind… can’t wait. cya.

EDIT: sorry for the people out there who use readers in case you got like 15 notifications stupid photobucket messed stuff up when i changed the files.

hilarious woman, a microphon would have been better than a camera. she talked to her dogs like it was her husband. viennese slang at it’s best. first 4 frames taken with the CLE back in december.. totally forgot about that roll. most good shots are on dA though so i won’t post em again.

fuji acros 100 / xtol /leica R4s 50mm – still had a couple of frames left from the studio… i’m glad i had a 50mm lens for that shot. still not sure i prefer 35 over 50 or not. maybe 40 is just right for me. i just have problems composing with the 35 sometimes. no straight lines etc..
florian does a great job on that, also with the 35mm.

back to tri-x /m6 35mm

some minimal shots i took while walking from praterstern to westbahnhof.. quite a long walk but it felt like shooting and needed to go to school anyways. about 80% percent of the shots in this entry were taken on that day… not chronological though.

a roll a tri-x. somehow fucked that roll up… was rewinding (and it felt a little different, harder) and when i opened i realised it didn’t rewind at all. i F*CKING HATE when stuff like that happens. i think it was almost only street shots on that roll…

very nice cafe near westbahnhof i’ve been to with jacksn. beautyful light… good breakfast. will go there more regularly from now on i guess.

it’s only like 26h ago i took these frames…

da taubenmann

“Sie finden sicher einen besseren Platz, wo sich ihr Hund den Darm entleeren kann. DANKE.”
das wahr wohl wem ziemlich scheissegal.

thanks for watching. a rather long entry again. sorry. hopefully not too boring. cheers, aschi.

got myself a olympus MJU II for 18€ on ebay. immediately fell in love with it. don’t think this entry is very interesting for people who have not participated in the making of these. anyways.. here’s some party stuff from christmas/newyear holidays.

31.12.09 afternoon, food and schnaps on hongar… schnaps putting a smile on my mom, dad, sisters and probably everybody elses
face

and hiking down in the evening… eni with my cap.

sophie.. and more food at night!! so much food all the time during holidays…

waltz at midnight… dirndl+fur+moonboots –> my sisters style.

more waltz. i suck at dancing. big time.

paul came from ny came to visit my sister.

steffi

shellac

arthur

eni “all in”

blood

loving arthur in this one

what a happy new year

not so amused keith kept telling me that i’m his “worst customer ever”

we got kicked out later because of that.

back at home

priceless

the joy of painting. bob helped me out falling a sleep quite sometimes.

random going out shots from teehaus/gei/delinquent habits

jay and me

max

kroch daham oida

lachi

tamara

miihi and jay

some more miihi..

goodbye.

some shots from upper austria.
tri-x developed in XTOL. i think i agitated a bit too much. lots of contrast.

very first frame i took with the M6.

my dad.

breakfast, my sister.

taken out of the window. my parents garden.

at my grandparents place.

and breakfast again

eni and benni were visiting me in vöcklabruck for a couple of days. we went for a 3h walk to see an ruined castle near vöcklabruck.

these two are apx100. HUGE scratch all over the roll. i think i did something wrong when loading the M6. dont know what happend exactly but i had to rewind the film after frame 13 or sthg and i think thats when i scratched it….

another walk on the hongar on the 31st dec. had some food and schnaps up there before the party at night.

new years party pics will follow soon. shot them with olympus MJU that i got for 18€ on ebay.

jacksn looking like a black fellow in this one… another hike on hongar… this time to sled. most fun thing ever! tri-x @1600 btw.

foggy as hell! you could barely see further than 10m sometimes…

don’t know how to say “angelaufen” in english.

at jacksn’s.

and back in VIE. still tri-x +2. the results are pretty nice i`d say.

<3

next (MJU) entry will follow soon.

happy new year everybody.
aschi

more leica r4s again… minolta doesn’t work anymore. i want a leica M6. so i can use the M mount minolta lenses.

you can click to fullview again in this post.

me and my dad had some “gansl”

met aigi to shoot skate. nice and sunny day.

huge rail. shoot with nikon d300 + 10-17mm tokina fisheye (sequence. won’t show all of them though.)

his board landed in dogshit in one of the tries. disgusting.

kodak portra 160 NC. most of the roll is totally scratched. won’t show much of it.

also taken during shooting skate in 1020 VIE. 1st time i tried shooting skate with a medium format camera. mamiya RB67 + hmm i forgot. i think 45mm lens. no scans of the medium format negs though.

also the first time i shoot skate with the leica. this one turned out quite nice i think. printed it with lots of dodging and burning and a “dirty” frame. turned out quite rough and dirty which i like.

just realised i cropped his hand in lightroom by mistake when i cropped the white/black border from the scans. looks much better with the hand.

took these while walking home from school. it’s all window shops.. that’s not all of them.

wasting the last frame before developing.

apart from the bad exposure i like this one.

went out with classmates. clemens.

walked home at 4 in the morning..

waited for eni and benni when i took this…

… here she is.

here he is… went to musa to see an exhibition. something about video stills.

so i took some “stills” of the videos shown there too. guess this makes me the real artist of this whole process esp. since i used BW FILM

he was like a little kid, fascinated by the digger. building sites never attracted me. also not as a kid.

former spot where i shot this with aigi btw.

some street stuff…

nice weekend to everybody. cheers.

… stuff…

surprise surprise, jacksn.

eni and her F4

shot this and the next day the guy on the left was still there… took another shot from a different perspective. and on different film. neopan400.

white russian?

light leak because of a broken developing tray.

eni again.

the flag caught my attention..

turn right.

view from my new room. 1020.

pida

after shooting this this the security told us to leave.

picking up my parents from the airport.

jacksn’s kitchen + one of my very first prints.

aigi after doing an 11 stair nollie. might will update the blog with skatestuff sometime so you can see the results.

@ J’s.

hackman (alseep)

LOCH HOCH

usually my entries consist of 99percent tri-x. this time there will be lots of different BW film.
agfa apx100, fuji neopan1600, kodak tri-x, kodak tmax400, ilfordHP5

starting with neopan1600. taken while watching austria during the EURO. the film got developed in NY and most of it is totally overexposed.

OTTO GRAF. just found that’s a funny name because it almost sound like FOTOGRAF.

oh yeah. definitely the last frame from NYC i promise.

these 3 are all my EURO shots. apx100 exposed in june.

jacksn (once again)

hard to say which one i like better.

stevie at the darkroom.

when i saw the taxi this photo
by sev came to my mind. so i took a snap to see if it’s the same. success. same license plate.

took this out of a driving car. one of like 10 shots i took starting the roll. 400tmax btw. i paid 7€ at niedermeyer for the roll in vöcklabruck. crazy.

very nice light at some lake in upper austria. annoying jacksn with like 10 frames but i just couldn’t resist because of the light.

more out of car photography.

world press photo 08. i was not too impressed.

tri-x from now on. i like taking out of focus/bokeh stuff at night.

on my way to mcshark. my macbookpro had a hardware problem. it’s not even a year old so it has warranty anyways i thought.. but… the next day i received a call from mcshark that it will cost me 1000€ or more because the mbp has a little crack. WTF. after arguing a while they repaired it for free. thanks god. no way i could have afforded that. that’s also the reason i got these scanned at cyberlab because my computer was there for like 2 weeks and didnt want to wait. the cheapest scans they offer. they suck.

carla from puerto rico, david and jacksn. i have sharp one too. like this one better though.

i like this portrait.

check their arms. wanted to take more of this scene but the leica ran out of battery. one of the disadvantages of an electronic shutter. it’s supposed to work without batteries at 1/125s but didn’t. the shot still turned out better than i expected and i like it.

ilford hp5 from now on. i like the look of the film so i might give it another try.

simon and his board.

i like this small “simon series”

another long entry. sorry guys. still hope you liked some these shots. prost. aschi

i’d just be curious what you think about these. put these together during another 2 1/2 hour train ride…
it’s 15. i don’t think all of these are good and i’m still browsing through my archive to find more. having 10 i like in the end would already be satisfying.

i just don’t really know how to do that in the darkroom, since it’s all film shots i’d like to put em together as darkroom prints.

could not find a better one for the B i i mm shot so far…

that’s it from NYC. i have one undeveloped roll left but i don’t think there’s much good stuff on it anyways so i will probably skip those or show it with the overleft rolls that i still have from june/vienna. whatever.

so this were more or less my first experiences with color film. the colors in most shots look terrible. they are straight out of the scanner and that doesn’t make much sense imho. i have contact sheets of 2 rolls and they just look so much better. this and simply because i took lots of awful pictures are the reasons i’m not going to show a lot of the 5 color rolls. i’d like to print some of these though so i’m curios about darkroom color printing. never done that.

starting with fuji color pro 160 (the vivid one)

this is the kinda stuff i planned to shoot a lot, due to the unsatisfying color i received scanning these and not having contact sheets i stopped. got some medium format shots taken with a mamyia of that kind of stuff too. not scanned though.

fuji sensia 200 (slide) from now on.

this one’s WB adjusted cause it looked awful and i blame the scanner.

kodak portra 160VC exposed@100

i liked the color of the can and the backround.

flat iron building. kinda holga-ish.

this one’s adjusted too. turned out totally grey. contact sheet looks very good in terms of color.

these kinda suck in color anyways.

adjusted as well. same thing. nice warm tones turned out grey.

will try to print this in BW. i don’t need color in these kind of shots at all.

maybe i should get into cheesy stock photography or make “fine art posters” for ikea or something.

haha the man!!

fuji superia 200@800. dev. as 200 by mistake. (was still drunk when i brought it to the lab.) so all of these are underexposed 2 stops and look pretty good. i really like em the way they are. imagine you do this with a digital camera.

oh and this one’s taken with the leica, all prior minolta.

one of the few shots in my life that i ran for. came around the corner and saw this guy and the ballons prob. 25m. from me… i thought like i had to take one since i don’t have color loaded very often. he was walking pretty fast so i had to hurry… than i realized there was shadow everywhere on this side of the street except some small gap he was about to cross soon. so i really ran fast. stopped, focused, waited for him to pass the light and click. it’s not a great photograph or something but i’m still glad i got it.

just because they were father and son so obviously.

again one of these i’d rather have in BW.

cafe sabarsky. colors turned out weird!

this one and the next one are kinda annyoing photographs to me. not that they are awfully composed or something. but… it’s that kind of street photography i don’t really like. it’s not supposed to be a stupid curiosity show. it’s that kind of pictures that, if at all, make you smile for a second or say “ha cool” “huh weird”. but it’s not good photographs and i don’t understand why i keep shooting stuff like that. most of the time simply because i have fun shooting i guess. it’s not that i think these will be great and am dissapointed when i see em. i already know they will suck when i take em. whatever. (same for the stupid “man with bird on the streets of manhattan shot”)

digital. don’t really like on of these either.

check their arms/hands. like if they realised somebody’s takin their picture.

cya. (not too soon though cause i don’t think i will shoot a lot the next weeks. and i also thought about not continuing with the blog at all)

i’m back. arrived today. without my luggage. it’s still in düsseldorf or wherever and i hope i’ll get it back (soon).
whatever… here’s the last frames…

did i ever mention i really like these water-whatever they are called towers?

random stuff i took out of the window due to boredom.

i was kinda fascinated by the shark in my sisters flat… probably took like 10 shots of it…

my sister and david. we had great fun with my sisters camera. it has this nice feature….

anybody else think “they” or “it” looks like leo di caprio?

so stefan and me went to coney island… fun place. nice beach and scariest rollercoaster ever (built in 192x or something).

i will definitely print this as soon as i’m back in vienna.

the minolta didn’t like the beach/sand as much as me. before i shot this roll i shot some color, than loaded tri-x, wanted to adjust the ASA and something broke. i still can adjust the ASA but i can’t see to what it is set anymore. we used stefan’s bessar as a meter and i set it to 400 which worked. unfortunately not with the next roll… it was supposed to be +3, but looks like it was still set to 400 or something.

i did not scan the rest of the roll.

all shots from now on taken with the leica r4s which i haven’t used in a while..

i like all those different positions.

on our way to the opening of the luhring augustine staff show in which all the staff members exhibited their work. my sister was one of them. it started pouring like hell right before we wanted to leave. it’s fucking hard to get a cab when it rains… we were lucky though. took this out of the cab. +3 by the way…

my sister on the right.

my sister and her work.

this is one of my favourite shots. i slightly straightend it though…. think it would be nice on the back of a luhring augustine buisness card or something like that.

once again my sister…

the next day.. on my way to the lab. it started pouring again. i kinda enjoyed it though and just kept walking to the lab and shooting. NYC really turns into a crazy place when it starts to rain. everybody starts running, trying to catch a cab and all of a sudden there’s people selling umbrellas everywhere. if i’d live in NY i think i’d go outside to watch and shoot the spectacle a lot.

empire state building.

this one’s also one of my favourites.

i wanted to take one while he was on his bike passing by… but he stopped before i exposed and asked me if i wanted to take his picture. i said yes i would have if he wouldn’t have stopped. so he said i can still take one now. hhhmmm not quite the same but i thought it was nice to have a portrait of him so i did. he than wanted to know if this was for a magazine. i said nope just for me… he was still very friendly but seemed kinda disappointed and cycled on.

focusing moving objects at night is not an easy task with an MF SLR camera. kinda missed the rangefinder system there and i really hope the minolta can be fixed and that it’s not too expensive…

i also like some of these i took the second last night.

melina. this one’s for stefan.

there will be one more nyc post with color stuff the next days. or maybe as soon as today or tomorrow. whatever. cheers.