Circus Busch - Roland, Heidelberg, 1986 (Rolleiflex 3.5F)

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Shot with Rolleiflex 3.5F

 

 

 

Technical data:

Camera - Rolleiflex 3.5F

Taking lens - Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5/75mm

Film - Kodak Tri-X

Developer - Kodak D-76

Scanner - Epson 4990

Location - Heidelberg, Germany

Date - September, 1986

 

 

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Frankfurt am Main - August 2012

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“Won’t You Try / Saturday Afternoon” (Paul Kantner)

Won't you try
won't you try
find a way to need someone
find a way to see
find a way and need someone and the sunshine will set you free
won't you try
with love before we’re gone
won’t you try

Saturday afternoon
Saturday afternoon
when your head is feeling fine
you can ride inside our car
I will give you caps of blue and silver sunlight for your hair
all that soon will be what you need to see, my love
won't you try
won't you try
I do care that you do see
Is it time to leave, my lady
yes it is I know
round about and everywhere sunshine instead of snow
times can't change that what I say is true

I’ll come through for you
and I’ll come through for you, my love
won’t you try
won’t you try
Saturday afternoon
yellow clouds rising in the noon
acid incense and balloons
Saturday afternoon
people dancing everywhere , loudly shouting I dont care
it’s a time for growing and a time for knowing
Saturday afternoon
Saturday afternoon (wont you try)
Saturday afternoon ( wont you try )
wont you try (saturday afternoon)
wont you try ( saturday afternoon)
wont you try

From the album “After Bathing at Baxter’s” by Jefferson Airplane (1967)

 

 

Technical Data:

Camera - Leica M4

Lenses - Elmarit-M 2.8/28mm + Summicron-M 2.0/50mm

Film - Agfa APX 100

Developer - R09, 1+50

Date - August 2012

Location - Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Scanner - Epson 4990

 

 

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"The Loner" - Circus Probst, Schwetzingen, June 1983

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Circus Probst - Schwetzingen, Germany, June 1983

(Leica M2 + Versenkbar Summicron 50mm)

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Industrielandschaften - Mannheim, Deutschland, November 1985

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Three years later, also on November, but on a very dissimilar mood from my previuos post, I felt an urge to shoot urban landscapes.

The Rhein (Rhine) and Neckar rivers are the home of one of the most important European inland ports, spreading around the German towns of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.

I decided on medium format equipment for the task, bringing along the Hasselblad 500 EL/M and the Rolleiflex T.

Wish I had done these photographs in large format, but that was still zukunftsmusik...

So, will you please excuse me for some inaccurate perspective?

Shot with Hasselblad 500 EL/M + Rolleiflex T

Technical Data:
Cameras - Hasselblad 500 EL/M + Rolleiflex T
Lenses - Carl Zeiss Tessar, Planar or Sonnar (Distagon?)
Film - Kodak Tri-X + Ilford HP5
Developer - Kodak D-76 1+1
Location - Mannheim, Germany (last one on the border to Ludwigshafen)
Date - November 1985
Scanner - Epson Perfection 4990 Photo

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"Those Were the Days" - Schloss Lembeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (November 1982)

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After reading two books by Irvine Welsh (“Ecstasy”, “Trainspotting”), I decided on one by Paul Auster (“Leviathan”).
By comparison, this last author reads a bit like “Reader’s Digest”.
It kind of misses something…

I always felt the same about my humanistic photography: it’s like ice cream with eierlikör on top, it’s like sex with a pillow.
Aiming at the higher-levels of some of my “heroes” (Josef Koudelka, Robert Frank, William Klein…), I am obliged to concede that my efforts seem to be in vain.

My images are a little too soft…

My photography lacks punch!

Wanting to widen my horizon, rucksack on my back, 2000 escudos in my pocket, I hit the road to Germany in the distant year of 1974.

I had met a german girl before, so the first town I lived in was Münster.
What a difference!

Coming from a small and forgotten little land that suffered 48 long years of dictatorship, my young naive eyes would just marvel at this open-minded world.

I felt lost and enlightened at the same time: I couldn’t really feel at home, and I didn’t want to leave and go back to the darkness where I was coming from, either.

The girl soon became my wife. She was coming from Gross Reken, a village not far from Münster, so I quickly became acquainted with Münsterland, a region that I kept admiring and enjoying through the years.

Belonging to Dorsten, Schloss Lembeck is only a short distance from Reken. When I was bothered from hanging around my parents-in-law, I often went for a visit to the Schlosspark (after that Veltins Pilsener would taste even better…).

Again and again I had a Leica with me.

Shot with Leica M4-2 + Elmarit-M 28mm

The images might be soft-spoken, but aren’t those trees beautiful?


Technical data:
Camera- Leica M4-2
Lens - Leitz Canada Elmarit-M 2.8/28mm
Film - Kodak Tri-x
Developer - Kodak D-76, diluted 1+1
Location - Schloss Lembeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Date - November 1982


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