Long time no analogue friday! But now I finally managed to get another roll developed! Come with me and get some summer vibes!

saying goodbye to Norderney... always a bit sad...

But then... Berlin... ♥

summer evenings ...

A relaxed friday afternoon walk with Esther - her blog has been on my reading list since the beginning! It's great! If you want, hop over to her via: http://inside-my-shell.blogspot.de

The following picture was not taken by me but by my camera. The strap on which she was hanging around my neck snapped and with a bang - that hurts the ears of everyone, who loves cameras - it bounced on the paving! And took this picture!

I didn't know if everything was alright - the exterior had some scratches but nothing serious. So I kept on photographing with her. And since the next picture was also the next on the roll, I think she's fine ;)

The same thing happened yesterday again with my Mamiya C330 (I'll never trust analogue camera straps again!)... I hope she's fine, but the roll is not yet full and developed. I'll keep you posted...

Fleamarket: selling some of my pictures :)

And, yes, this is Berlin, too:

My favourite of the roll - I bet it confuses you, too, ... ;) :

// all pictures taken with a RevueFlex SD I, 50mm 1.9, on a Kodak Gold 200 //

Two weeks in Norderney // part 1

Is there a better way to forget about the hustle and bustle of a city like Berlin than a lonely windy beach and the roaring of the sea? Norderney is one of my alltime favourite places for that, almost like a second home by now. It's one of the East Frisian islands, in the north of Germany, with beautiful almost white, almost endless beaches, beautiful dunes and a lovely little town. And the North Sea all around. It has a landscape that sometimes looks almost otherworldly and which I cannot get enough of. The sandy beige of the beach, the greens and reds of the dunes and the million shades of blue of the sea and the sky. A colour palette that speaks of summer, of the sun, of the wind, of storms and rain, of salty air and sandy feet ...

"When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused."
Rainer Maria Rilke

Desktop Wallpaper // August

(1920 x 1280)

August is here and this calls for sandy, pastel colours, that reminds you of the beach and the sky and the sea... 

Have a wonderful summer!

♥♥♥

PS: You can download the picture by right-clicking and saving. But it's the first one I publish here in my new space, so if there are any problems, the picture looks pixelated or stuff like that, you can also download it via my Flickr or Facebook.

the beauty of the north

During our stay in Norderney, one day we took the bus from the small town in the west of the island to its terminal stop in the east. That's where the area begins, which you can enter only by bike or on foot. On a small path we walked through the dunes and when we arrived at the beach it was like we were entering a postcard. Or a film set. Or another planet. It was so surreally beautiful. The white sand stretching into the endless horizon, the blue sky above us that never seemed so vast to me before.

The sun was shining so bright and with the sea so calm, you weren't be able to tell if it was winter or summer. In fact, while we and some other wanderers arrived there packed into warm jackets and wooly hats others were lying on the beach and swimming in the sea. On this day at this place time and seasons did not exist. And after seeing this sky that day, I began to understand why some painters were so fascinated by the colour blue and never stopped to search for the perfect shade.

Goodbye Norderney, you beauty!

Twilight fell

After dinner we walked the streets of Norderney's little town in the evening light but it was only after we turned a corner that we could see the sky above the wavy sea in its full splendour... it was as if the sun had stumbled across its colour palette and all the colours burst out across the evening sky. And as if the sun set slower this evening to pick them all up again. The only thing to be done was to sit down and watch the spectacle and marvel about the beauty of it all.

new beginnings

It is done! A new layout and a new space! After hours and hours of thinking and rethinking, new ideas, old ideas, coding-despair and bug-solving, red wine and white wine ... here it is, my new space! For a while now I had the feeling that it was time for a change. For a new place where I can put together my pictures, my memories, parts of me.



It is a bit like moving in real life. Or like spring-cleaning. After taking the first steps out of the comfort-zone, it feels fresh and light and new. And what could better add to the feeling of freshness than pictures from the cold and breezy North Sea?! So, here we are: off to new adventures!

When I visited Norderney, one of the beautiful Frisian islands in the North of Germany, it was love at the first sight. Since there is a direct train from Berlin you can leave Berlin in the early morning hours and board the ferry with the late afternoon sunbeams. It is always a very special moment to be back at the sea and smell the salt of the water. I'll never tire of this. And also not of long walks along the beach, making friends with the sea gulls and watching the waves and the clouds ...