New eye

Remember I has some issues with the Carl Zeiss Biogon 2.0/35mm? I recently found a beautiful Summicron 35mm, the pre-ASP version. Yes, that one.

So, if you get a new lens, you want to try it out, so I did.

Roeland11 November 2015Nethen, 1390 Grez-Doiceau, Belgium2.0/35mm, Film, HP5 Plus, HRX, Leica, M6, SummicronComment

At the Fair

I love a good Fair, always a lot of opportunities for a good picture. The one at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in France is particularly good.

I walked around, camera in my hand with the strap rapped around my arm, camera slightly behind my back. For me this works good

Roeland9 August 201564500 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France2.0/35mm, Biogon, Carl Zeiss, Film, Leica, M6, T-MAX, Tmax 100Comment

View

I am more and more looking for surreal pictures, let you guess as much as possible.
I was in Antwerp last week, and the light was great, so I visited

At the beach

I have this slumbering project on beach resorts, I guess this one will be part of that.

Again, I am not sure I want to discuss what we are looking at.

Let's just say I took a few pictures of this.

Roeland19 April 2015Strandweg, Den Haag, Netherlands2.0/50mm, APX100, Film, HRX, Leica, M6, SummicronComment

No Title

I think a photograph should tell a story, should be more then just pleasing to the eye.

Even better, for me the story is much more important.

I am done with simple pleasing pictures like

Roeland19 April 20152.0/50mm, Film, HP5 Plus, Leica, M6, Summicron, T-MAXComment

At Night

I don't think I am going to tell you what you are looking at.

The what was there, but the how, not that simple.

There was not much light, and I needed

Roeland18 April 20152.0/50mm, Film, HP5 Plus, HRX, Leica, M6, SummicronComment

Direction

The light was magnificent, low evening sun, full of promise.
I knew there where great pictures in the air, I only had to grab them.
Only.

In conditions like that

When

Sometimes it can be difficult to decide when to click.

The picture itself is there in your mind. You know the 'what', the sentiment you want to capture. But when..

Roeland21 March 2015Rotterdam Leuvehaven-Hotel New York, Rotterdam, Netherlands2.0/50mm, Film, Leica, M6, Summicron, T-MAX, Tmax 400Comment

Magic

I don't fancy a description to accompany a picture, this is not journalism. I prefer to let the viewer work it out.

But in this case the why does have an added value.

This is at the Making of Harry Potter Studio Tour, near London, just before

Roeland13 March 2015Leavesden, London, Hertfordshire, UK2.0/35mm, Biogon, Carl Zeiss, Film, HP5 Plus, HRX, Leica, M6Comment

Light .. lighter .. lightest

When making pictures during a day, either working on a story or just visiting an unknown place, I have a tendency to take less and less pictures.

Creating photographs takes a lot of energy, but so does moving through an unknown place, or city, or environment, interacting with your surroundings, getting fed in time, moving from one location to another, you get

Leuven

While doing some shopping and taking care of things we had to do, I was busy taking pictures.

The world of train stations is allways an intriguing place for me, a lot of people things happening. I noticed

Roeland31 December 2014Station Leuven, Martelarenplein 16, 3000 Leuven, Belgium2.0/35mm, Biogon, Carl Zeiss, Film, Leica, M6, T-MAX, Tmax 400Comment

Compiegne

We are working on a long-term project concerning shipping, I won't elaborate too much on that, nothing solid yet, but this photograph is part of that project, as an example of the style we might want to achieve.

What I want to show here is how