Otto

Fast wär' mein Name Otto gewesen, aber meine Mutter war dagegen.

1967 War ich zum ersten Mal in Wien, wo heute Otto von Habsburg usw. beerdigt wurde. Mit der Canon FX, 1,8 50mm und ORWO Film! Das hätte ich besser nicht gemacht... Ich fand noch diese 13x18 Vergrösserung (Meopta Belar 75mm); ach ja, die sechziger Jahre...

Milepebble

At the moment it's rather quiet on my analogue front (while preparing another 120/127 B&W and Colortec batch) but in spite of that I reached this week the 40,000th view on my Blogs/Flickr/Panoramio, so here's a collage of the most visited posts.

EURA

The 1959 Ferrania Eura is the Italian Click with a twist: the lens can be focused. And (look at the cut-stone step:) that seems to work!
(I'll test the two in the future.)
The sixties Agepe FF I used today had something strange: after rinsing I rubbed a white residue from the back - never seen that before. Otherwise it was fine.

1936 JUNE 16

Today "our" bridge celebrates it's 75th birthday and for me there's a story to it. Of course the official opening had to be tested, by a lieutenant in a car. And as he was my mother's (then) boyfriend, she became the first woman to drive over the new bridge. Whoa!

Of course I took this picture with the 1936 KW Pilot6, on 1960 Ansco, 1/25 sec F7,7 (you can see the back paper etc.) More info about this film on flickr.

Small pic: at 6 secs all traffic disappears, but the back paper fog becomes very visible. (see comment)

BLACK AND WHITE (and red) 2

the Photographer

"Our" bridge is 75 this year, so I'll have to come back with the 1936 Pilot, some day.

Just to see if I still can handle it, today the Praktica LTL3, 28mm Albinar + Yellow, RolleiRetro in Rodinal.

PS "Bridge?" Well he was taking some pictures of it...

COMPOSITIONS IN B&W. (and red)

In the spring/summertime I'm more the birdwatcher than the light-addict. Sorry! But I do not forget my black&white roots. Never. So here is a (rather desperate, poor thing) oystercatcher in black and white. And some red. In an also b&w&r asphalt desert where some time ago his home was...
And the Common Tern, elegant as ever, also in b&w&r.