Today I share a film with you that I took on a trip to the Black Forest. I love how the film covered the shadows and at the same time brings out the details (like clouds) in the highlights, too. That was a challenge for me when I took pictures with my digital camera: The deep dark forest against the bright sky. It almost drove me crazy, because digitally-wise I had to decide if I wanted to bring out the details in the forest/on the ground or the clouds in the sky. I was all the more surprised when the analogue ones came out so well. And I'm also surprised I didn't show these here earlier :)

You can find my digital pictures and some more words on the location in my other post 

here and here. 

Have a nice weekend!

Analogue nerdiness: shot on an Agfa Vista 200 with a Zenit E ♥

Kitsch Galore at Titisee

I have to admit that the Titisee is not the typical place I would put on my bucket list and it was rather by chance that we ended up there for some days. In high season I would rather not like to go there, since it really is a very touristic spot with all the clichés that make most of us run away from such places... But since it was off-season, most of the happy plastic shops closed and we were almost alone in town. So we could embrace all the beautiful nature and the advantages of a vacated touristic place. The Titisee is a picturesque lake surrounded by the Black Forest and directly on its shores lies a little town that shares its name with the lake. When you are making your way around the lake on one of the old, baulky pedalos, gently dandled by the water, surrounded by the emerald green mountains and the majestic trees, the old white chapel in the distance... you feel transported directly into a vintage postcard or a very old and very cheesy movie. :)

Into the Black Forest

One of my favourite fairy tales of my childhood was Wilhelm Hauff's "The Cold Heart". It's set in the Black Forest and it is a very dark, moody tale about a kind-hearted young man in love with a girl but too poor to marry her. In the course of the story he sells his heart to a giant that lives in the depth of the forest and in return becomes so rich that he can marry his love. But now he has no heart to feel and he gets more and more callous. But, yes, in the end it all gets sorted and they live happily ever after. I loved this tale especially the parts in the forest with all the creatures and its darkness. It really coined my idea of this enormous, dark forest in the mountains located in the South of Germany. Ok, and also the Black Forest Cake my grandma makes sometimes. :-)

So for me it always was something very mystical and sweetly scary. Full of the Brothers' Grimm, full of goblins, pixies, dwarfs, giants, fairies and witches. All these in the depth of the forest, where the sun is unable to reach the ground because the fir trees are so high and thick, and the shades of green are dark and blue and emerald. And where you as a human only get around if you know the place very well or if you are a lost wanderer.

We decided to be wanderers guided by maps and set out to explore on a warm summer's day. And when you get deeper and deeper into this forest you come to understand why it fuelled the imagination of the people through all times. The trees have ears and every now and then you have the feeling that the whole forest is watching you very carefully...