Just a few “nothing going on here, let’s waste a few rolls of film” winter blues photos.

A visit to Venice for the second time, over the weekend of 4 to 6 March. It’s interesting how you see a city with different eyes the second time around. Fortunately, there were not so many tourists this time.Verona railway station.

Padova.

Arrived in Venice.

Italian politics…

Head down!

At Caffè Florian near Piazza San Marco. 15 euros for a cappuccino, but the experience is worth it.

On the Ponte di Rialto.

On the way back to Switzerland.

A visit to the islands of Murao and Burano.

From February 7 – 17, 2023, I was on a journey to Northern Norway with three near strangers. We have seen and experienced a lot and the time together will remain in my memory for a long time. Here I continue with the digital photos of the expedition.

Exploring Senja Island.

Back in Laukvik.

Another atmospheric scene at Laukvik cemetery.

By ferry from Bottnhamn to Tromsø.

Tromsø Fjellet P-hus tunnel parking.

As we crossed the bridge on foot, we saw military ships passing underneath us. A nightmarish sight in the current situation.

The Tromsdalen kirke on the other side of the bridge.

On the return journey, waiting for the ferry..

Northern lights covered by clouds.

The ferry is coming.

The last round trip on Senja before we leave for Kiruna again.

The last night in Laukvik.

On the second last night in Kiruna we were lucky with the northern lights.

The old part of Kiruna city.

The new town hall in the new district.

On the way by bus to the LKAB iron ore mine.

Entering the tunnel.

Arrived in the exhibition part of the mine at a depth of 500 metres.

An interesting and comprehensive tour. The LKAB iron ore mine in Kiruna is considered one of the most modern mines in the world.

All machines are electrically powered.

It goes back to the surface, happy Fab.

The old part of Kiruna city at night. Everything behind these blue barriers is deserted.

The last night in Kiruna hunting for northern lights. Unfortunately without much success.

The road to Kiruna.

From February 7 – 17, 2023, I was on a journey to Northern Norway with three near strangers. We have seen and experienced a lot and the time together will remain in my memory for a long time. Here I continue with the digital photos of the expedition.

The morning after we arrived in Laukvik.

The first place we visited.

This was the first night we saw the northern lights. Unfortunately, the weather was bad and the clouds constantly covered them.

A short exploration in Laukvik.

The second night with northern lights.

The Laukvik cemetery in the snowstorm.

A dogsledge ride was planned for that day.

Cute animals, very trusting.

In the hut to warm up and philosophise.

From February 7 – 17, 2023, I was on a journey to Northern Norway with three near strangers. We have seen and experienced a lot and the time together will remain in my memory for a long time. These are the analogue photos I took during our arrival and departure.

On February 7, we took off from Zurich airport, flew via Koppenhagen and Stockholm to Kiruna in Sweden. This is Tobi (left) an Fabian (right)…

…and this is Florian, they were my compagnons on this trip.

Arrived at the Copenhagen airport in Denmark. BBC (Burger, Beer & Coffee).

Arrived at the Stockholm Airport in Sweden, waititing for the final flight to Kiruna.

Finally landed in Kiruna, Sweden.

In the shuttle bus from the airport to the old part of the town.

The next day we left Kiruna with the rental car via Abisko across the Norwegian border to Botnhamn in Senja.

Ready to take off.

Driving through harsh land.

A stop at Abisku railway station for train spotting.

A LKAB iron ore train with an endless amount of wagons was waiting there.

A happy Florian.

Continue towards the Norwegian border.

Finally arrived at our home in Laukvik on Senja Island for the next six days, after a 6 hour car ride. Men at work.

Pasta with sausages, really manly.

It has been snowing all night.

We try to free the car from the snow.

First photo-spot.

Already on the way back.

We passed some tanks.on our way from Senja Island to Narvik.

Fabian and I took the train in Narvik for part of the way and cross the Norwegian border to Sweden.

Back at the railway station in Abisko, Sweden.

Toillet break.

Exploring the old part of Kiruna. Because of the mine, the whole town has to be moved because the earth is giving way. You only understand the scale of this project when you see it with your own eyes. Since many people have already moved out of the old part of town, it looks like a ghost town.

Where this park is today, the town hall used to stand. This was demolished and completely rebuilt in the new district.

In the background you can see buildings of the mine.

The balconies of this yellow house were modelled on the passenger lifts in the mine.

Here you can see the barrier. Everything behind this blue wall is empty and deserted and may no longer be entered.

We fill up the tank before we return the rental car.

Back at Kiruna airport.

Back at Stockholm airport on the way home.

To be continued…

Here are some random images from the last few months, starting with a trip to Griesalp

I finally get some rolls of Kodak Gold 200. Some walking-by-pictures back in town.

A short trip to Cologne.

And Hamburg, especially the beautiful Speicherstadt.

The Old Elbe Tunnel connects the landing stages with the harbour area.

And the rest of a roll, some shots with my first camera, a Canon EOS 30 and the EF 35mm 2.0 IS.

Some details of a Ford Falcon we walked by.

Christmas 2022 leftovers…

Hipshot

Hipshot

More leftovers

This photo gives a lot of room for interpretation. The portraits on the wall shows the top of the Swiss government (as of 2022). Next to it is a roadblock with red warning signals. In the right background, a young woman stands with her back turned to the politicians and looks at her smartphone. What do you see in this scene?

Hipshot

Some photos from the last few months on b&w and colorfilm, 35mm & 50mm mixed.

Got a new Leica MP Blackpaint with a Summicron 50mm (as I started before I switched to 35mm). Back to the roots, but 35mm fits better to me. Some color shots.

A roll of black and white film in the other camera with Summicron 35mm.

Waiting at Geneva Airport, visiting sandrine’s parents in Bretagne, France.

Rest of the color shots. Some pictures for an upcoming book project.

We arrived at the airport in Brest, France.

Sandrine’s father Claude.

Family time in the kitchen.

Back at the airport in Brest, on our way home.

Stranded at Charles de Gaulles Airport in Paris for a few hours, we missed our connection flight to Geneva due late arrival.

Rest of the roll, some random shots.

Day trip to the Baumwipfelpfad Neckertal in Mogelsberg where you can walk among with trees.

Visiting Sandrine’s parents in Bretagne for a few days after a long time (Covid-19).

On the way to the beach in the early monring.

Return for breakfast.

Windmills in the fog.

On the road.

Visting Phare d’Eckmühl, a massive lighthouse.

Wandering through paradise. Never saw a botanical garden like this one before. A business man started to collect exotic plants on his journeys around the world over a hundred years ago and has begun to create this place.

Time out, exploring.

The house sheep.

More exploring.

Lovely watermill among a forest.

Here are the images from our trip to Iseltwald, a beautiful little village on the left shore at the Brienzersee in switzerland.

View from the hotel room.

We started to walk to the “Giessbach” waterfalls the upper path through the forest.

Then we returned to the hotel along the riverside path.

The Evil Dead.

Surprise! surprise! There were still some pictures on the negative. The rolleiflex has been repaired in the meantime. Some 6×6 frames from our stay in Verona.

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since corona i feel photographically slowed down. to travel is a strong driver for me to take some serious street shots, all the time at home, i see just the same all the time. of course i want to be sensible and responsible, but soon i hope to get to know a new, still unknown city for me.

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verona was a blessing! a beautiful city, not too many tourists and i found my drive to take pictures again! i hope my rolleiflex can be repaired, but i’m looking forward to the next journey of discovery!

I took another walk, from the same starting point but this time in the opposite direction, from train station Roggwil-Wynau to Langenthal.

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In addition to the corona crisis, the summer of 2021 is characterized by heat waves, heavy storms and rainfall. Due to the discourse on climate change, I keep thinking about the human factor and the role it plays. If you think about current events, such as the explosion in the port of Beirut in 2020, or the recent chemical plant accidents in Germany and Switzerland, where toxic chemicals were released into the environment, I think it underpins the fact that humans are significantly involved in the increasingly pronounced changes in the environment and society.

A walk I’ve wanted to do for a long time leads from the Roggwil-Wynau train station to Murgenthal. The railroad station in Roggwil-Wynau is located under an overpass bridge for road traffic and is situated in the former Gugelmann area, where yarn used to be produced industrially. Almost my entire family used to be employed there until the company was sold abroad. In the meantime, there is hardly anything left of the old buildings.

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If you look carefully, you will notice more and more the effects of climate change in your environment. This summer in particular, the current weather seems to me to be an indication of the unpredictable direction in which global weather is heading.

because my old wordpress-theme is outdated and do not work properly anymore, i had to change the theme. so this is the new one. here is the next monster blogpost – back to nature (with some streets between).

here are some shots during the first lockdown. back to landscapephotography

some nikon shots, crazy 28mm f2.8 ai-s!

on the way to rigi

back home, planning the next trip

arriving in grächen, valais

a walk in the woods

in the garden of my mother

a short trip to “einsiedelei in solothurn”

reflections from water on stone

the house from the hermit

and the rest of the street-shots

after a time of absence, i will start a new post with a bunch of pics from the last years, the rest from our visit in bretagne from march 2018! then, in the middle of the year 2018 i was in lisbon and italy. these pics are in the last two posts. then in 2019 florence and milano. and finally some corona shots.

then, i will continue with two short trips to annecy and strasbourg in early 2019. both weren’t that exciting for me in a photographic way. maybe there were to much tourists at that time. so i took just some “beside” photos.

a few days in strasbourg

back in switzerland

for my mother’s 60th birthday, we all went to our family in italy to make party! but firts some last shots from lisbon

back home, on the way to buy some trampolines

looking like ufo’s

what a kiss…

near a full meal. just why?

let’s start the ride to italy

first stop

first sunlight

another stop

stopover in termoli

one of our kind neighbor

a very familiar scene

for sale, maybe every third door in gambatesa

excellent buffet! made all by marco!

marco. le chef!

antonio, the kindness in person

on the country, ready to do some magic!

the one and only right way to make tomato sauce

zio micheles old tractor. i have many memorys on this

dolce fai niente

i love then colors of the olive trees

seems to be the chill zone

yes, it is the chill zone

cracking some nuts

a childs dream come true, stir the sauce!

view from the balcony

the devil rides fiat, i knew it!

saturday night in a bar in gambatesa

joanna and i had to go home earlier, so we took the train

some pictures from spring with friends and a surprising holiday, first in b&w, then in color

drinks for free after we have donated 9 shopping bags full of Sandrines old books to “La Piazzetta”, a nice pizzeria.

2 days Fantasy Basel. why i took no pictures there? so many great cosplays, didn’t know where to start. there where many professional looking photographers and there are very cool pictures on facebook

visiting Jonas, Sandrines cousin who lives in zurich. a little city trip first and then a bbq at his cozy apartment.

bbg on the roof-deck

saturday, dinner with Conny and Simon

sweet company

finally june! one month of unpaid leave! we have booked a suprising holiday, one week before boarding we have received an envelope with the destination: lisbon! here we are sitting in the hotel bar. Sandrine is checking the map, i just follow.

the first evening, we rest at the Rio Tejo after a walk down through the city center

the next day, we walked above the city, outside from the center through some poor looking quarter, and then back to the Rio Tejo. this was the most impressive walk.

back in the tourist zone, in front of the trainstation

time for coffee, seeking the next spot

visiting Belém the third day

here the rollei color shots from the first day on

this holes in the sidewalk are totally normal in Lisbon.

the walk down through the city until the Rio Tejo

“Elevador de Santa Justa”, a cool piece of art

late night and spare light, try to find the way back to the hotel

the walk through the poor looking streets, second day

back in the city center

looks adventuresome

drunken pigeons?

the longest and stair ever…

again at the Rio Tejo. a clown ist counting some coins in his hand

the third day in Belém

still courious what’s behind that door

he saw us coming when we walked down the street and started to wonder “ah, rolleiflex!”. i asked him if i can take a picture because i like his style.

back in Lisbon

the one and only streetcar without any advertising

end of the third day, last dinner in Lisbon at the Ao 26 (awesome vegan restaurant!) we where sitting in front of the kitchen and after that incredible meal i asked the guys if i can take a shot. i ran out of portra 400 the day before, so i had to find a retailer. i found a pack of portra 160. but there was almost not enough light for this shot

*fim*

this is my first try ever to push a film. kodak trix 400 pushed to 800. a like it throughout the fading light times like winter

shut down mode

train on the way to milano

we decided to stay in the corridor. too many people and bad air

the reason for our trip to milano, James Nachtwey exhibition in the Palazzo Reale. just breathtaking

the glass-dome in the middle of the Galleria Vittorio. awesome building

the dome made in lego bricks. *slobber*

on the run for a good restaurant. we noticed that can be a real challenge in milano

a string from a gift package on the public street. some people have no patience

parking italian style

…art…

never saw a truck open like this

the leftovers from the exhibition, back at home

Satish Kumar, indian activist and author. there was no time and a bad location to take a good portrait

don’t be afraid.

the ice they used to cool down the alcohol for carnival. didn’t melt for days.

heading to zurich. stopped in olten for a coffee.

damn cold days.

the heart attack size.

take a closer look at the center.

winter salt.

on the way to freiburg im breisgau. leaving basel, misty everytime we go there.

the coffeinators. mathias and patrick, saddler and shoemaker. mathias made me a custom photobag.

honey, breakfast is ready. with a bar of chocolate.

back in olten. wash day?

time to dispose all the photo chemicals from last year.

another trip.

again at the trainstation in basel. preparing tea instead of coffee.

the long journey to bretagne has started.

montparnasse trainstation.

in the tgv to quimper. underneath the white towel left in the picture was a sleeping baby.

some pictures from last summer until today.

our first couple-vacancy with conny and simon.

i gave the cinestill a second chance, not bad this time. the stripe is a develope or scan issue i guess.

breakfast in zurich with my sis.

merry shitmas. joanna with a lung embolia in the hostpital, few days before christmas.

very healthy…

finally home after a two weeks horror show.

lazy christmas days…

very healthy!

that light…

the new nail-color i choose for her.

trying to crack some riddles on new years eve. simon gave up long before.

massimo rocchi the first time, a classic.

is that cat new?

what a crazy film. rollei color explosion.

some rolleishots at dawn, 1/15sec by hand.