Week 24: Forggensee - another one ...
This is another image of Lake Forggensee. It is from the same jetty that I took the first one, but this time another direction and so that the jetty is actually in the image. The town you can see in the background is Füssen, a nice little town at the lake with many old buildings and a castle. Well, you do not see too much of it, the white pixels on the left is a small sailing boat and Füssen itself is really only some white pixels in this digital version. On the right you can see an image I took in Füssen. I must say that I was not too inspired when I was there and it was more of a family vacation than a photo trip. So my time was limited. Both images are lith prints, done on Fomatone MG FB with a pretty strong (lith wise) developer. So development times were short (lith wise) and there so is not so much color since I did not use the Ω-lith bath.
Week 25: Two Observers ...
Now this is from a day trip to Strassbourg, a nice french town near the German border, or should I say at the french border. Since it was a family trip there was not much time to take some pinholes. Honestly, I took exactly two and this is the one of the two that I like. It is a detail at the main entrance to the Münster. I was chatting with the parents of the kid trying to stand still for some time. They were interested in that small wooden box which first attracted the little boy.
The story about this image, while chatting the boys dad asked me "Who the heck is still using film and pinhole cameras?" Well, what is the answer for that? Obviously: me!
Week 26: A Little Flower ...
Needed a birthday present for a friend, thought she might like a flower ... and she did. Phew!
Halftime ...
So, with the post for week 26 this blog is at the half of its time. It is only another 26 weeks and I am done with it. I am still surprised every week that I could keep on track albeit not every image is a good one. But I keep going. I am unsure what I will do when the year is over. Maybe I just delete the blog, or I keep it hanging around without updating it. Or I start a new project, e.g. a print a month and then in the next year another one with a print a year. There is 26 weeks to decide ...
Week 27: Message in a Bottle ...
This is the same little flower from last week. But now put into a bottle ... into a jar, but bottle made for the better title. This is an example of a whole series that I work on. There is a lot you can find in your backyard ... and beyond.
As you can see, it is kallitype time again. This is such a wonderful process and the scans just do not hold up very well with the real print. And it is something that you do not have to have a darkroom set up for. So I only can encourage people: Try it out, it is fun and the results will surprise you.
For those interested in what I put into the jar, the flower at the top is a heliopsis (in Germany we call it Sonnenauge which maybe can be translated into suns eye) and on the right we have an elder flower. We use those elder flowers to make a syrup which you put a little bit into your mineral water ... tasty. And on the left you see a "bottled" honeysuckle.
I hope you like those images because there are more to come.
Week 28: Honeysuckle ...
Tough week, only one print I have to show. It is a kallitype print of a honeysuckle. The same honeysuckle you can see bottled (or is it jared) in last weeks post.
Week 29: Heliopsis again ...
Times are a bit tough, so I had no chance to go out photographing lately. At the moment all I can do is to show you another try on the heliopsis. This time not a kallitype but a lith print. And a pretty dark one. I still like the kallitype more, but also this version has something I like. It is lith printed in SE5 lith on Fomatone MG FB.