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   Photography has been a passion for a long time. I use both film and digital cameras.

   My favorite camera is a 6x6 Pentacon Six - there are wonderful Carl Zeiss Jena lenses available for it.
   My photos are on Flickr. Below are a few of my recent favorites.

   REDDISH ESTATE

holga reddish estate

   I took this with my Holga - there was an intense back light in the neighborhood near my place here in Beijing. The
   film used was a black & white Ilford Delta 400. The reddish tint appeared when I "told" GIMP that it was an RGB
   color image.
   The neighborhood is an unpretentious average estate. Holga cameras have a strange way to be unsharp off centre
   parts of the image. This effect creates a focus that makes the images 'stronger' than taken with a more expensive and
   accurate lens (and camera).


   DRYING LINE


   Taken with a digital cam, Canon 40D. I noticed that my shirts hanging there were so much in bright light that a photo should be
   badly overexposed. But then the 'totally' white background was looking so interesting.
   To me this is a situation when a digital camera is a great advantage. To me it is hard to imagine how it would look like on film. A
   digital camera allows to try and see right away the result.


   CREEK IN THICK FOG

creek in fog

   This is a photo I took in early winter with my favorite camera, the 6x6 Pentacon Six. I used infrared film Ilford SFX 200 and had a
   wide angle lens on it, the Flektogone f4/50mm. I do love this lens!


   ONE TREE ONE A MOUNTAIN

one tree on mountain

   Same camera, same lens with a Ektrachrome 100VS. Incredible vivid colors. I took this a year and a half ago when I was
   with my family on a short holiday in Spain, Mallorca. To be exact, near Soller in the Sierra Tramuntana.


   MOSQUE IN BLUE

mosque on blue

Last year I went on a great vacation to the Lingga Islands in Indonesia, just a few hours away from Singapore. The entrance
to Indonesia is Tanjung Pinang on Bintan island. I took this photo there, this time with a small 35mm Voigtländer Bessa.    Sometimes referred to as a 'poor man's Leica' I think it is pretty good because of the lenses that are made under the Voigtländer brand name by Cosina in Japan.
I used the same film as for the previous photo, Kodak Ektachrome VS 100.