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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

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

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

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

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.