in the woods.

I'm not the wildlife-animal-zoo-photograph, but some weeks ago I was in the Wildpark Pforzheim with my Praktica PLC3 and the Revue Automatic 4.5/240mm lens (a rebranded Enna München Tele-Ennalyt). The weather wasn't good, but I shot some animals on an AgfaPhoto APX 100 film with exposure times at 1/60 and 1/125 without a tripod at f-stop 4.5.

transplantation.

At my works Aufbauende Altbauten I fixed photomontages with baind-aids.
In this work now I also used baind-aids to fix a photomontage, but here the pictures aren't just from one building, but from two buildings. The lower parts are from the Rheinhafen-Dampfkraftwerk Karlsruhe and from the Heizkraftwerk West and the upper part is from the Fernmeldeturm Grünwettersbach.
With the works Aufbauende Altbauten I wanted to show the decay of the buildings in the urban space and now I wanted to show utility buildings like power plants and a radio tower, which are logically built for a special purpose, in a strange manner.
Therefore I made a transplantation and connected the two buildings. It was a cosmetic operation with wounds that have not yet healed and still need baind-aids. But it is a cosmetic operation in a negative sense, because this FrankensteinBuilding is the fallout of the modernization, it lost his raison d'être, it is becoming Junk-Space like Rem Koolhaas explained it.
Perhaps you are thinking, that this FrankensteinBuilding now has got two functions, but take a closer look at the photomontage, then you can see that it may not work. It is  purposeless, it is crossover.

The photomontage consists of 7 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. Size: 31x41,5cm

The photomontage consists of 4 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. Size: 20,5x32,5cm

The photomontage consists of 5 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. Size: 25x22cm

The photomontage consists of 5 C-Prints in the size 10x15cm. Size: 31x23cm

I shot the pictures with my Mamiya 528TL on since 2007 expired Extrafilm 200.

Nikon and me.

I'm not a NikonBoy, I'm a CanonBoy and my girlfriend is a NikonGirl, but I've just got a Nikon TW Zoom for years and now I wanted a 1980s Nikon SLR.
First I found a F-301 at Ebay and bought it with a cheap Exakta 35-70mm lens, a Metz flash and a Hama strap.

But the shutter curtain is damaged, the lens has a little bit fungus and the Metz is totally ruined. But at least the strap is really cool.
Shortly after the purchase of the F-301 I bought a Mitsuki 2.8/135mm (probably a rebranded Tokina) lens also at Ebay. I just have a Nikon HS-4 lens hood, which fits well the Mitsuki.
But when it arrived I saw that it has slight fungus, too. Now I was very disappointed, a broken camera and two almost ruined lenses. Of course, fungus is not the end of a lens.
But I refused to give up and then I found, once more at Ebay, a F-501 body without the base plate and with a ruined battery attachment. No problem for me, because I could use these parts from the F-301, because both cameras a nearly identicals. I bought the F-501 with the beginning bid.

And then I had luck, the F-501 works!

F-301 and F-501

It was still a Kodak color film inside and I shot it with the Exakta 35-70mm to the end.

shot from the previous owner

shot from the previous owner

shot from the previous owner

Nikon and me

Nikon and me

Double Exposure with a SLR.

Some years ago I shot double and multiple exposures with a DSLR.
The technique is really simple. You just need a camera, a flash, a tripod, a person and a dark room. That's it.
Now I wanted to do it again, but with an analog camera. I used the Minolta SRT 101 with a Soligor S/M 3.9-4.8/28-70 mm Macro MC lens and a Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film. The flash I used was a Tron S400TCZ and the tripod was a Manfrotto. The person was my girlfriend and the room was somewhere in Cologne...
Now begins your imagination of surreal pictures. Take a look for example at the works of Francesca Woodman and Duane Michals.

some making-of pics of the instax shooting.

Now some analog making-of pictures of the instax shooting with my girlfriend. I shot them with the Minolta AL-F on a DM Paradies 400 film.