As I said in this post back in September of last year, I accepted an invitation to a TV show featuring 12 budding photographers here in Luxembourg. The whole thing is a ‘shootout’ with one leaving the contest each week… reality style.Now it’s official and the series will start airing on January 28th and I can talk about the experience. http://tele.rtl.lu/emissiounen/generation-art/ And here’s me…. http://tele.rtl.lu/emissiounen/generation-art/990744.html … Continue reading I’ll be on TV….

So as promised in my Trains post I headed back out to the train station, past the old farm the next day, still friggin’ cold, with my Canon A-1 and a new acquisition, the Sigma Mini-Wide 28mm f:2.8. Continue reading “What a difference a day (…lens) makes”

What is more rewarding to photograph than old farm equipment (well, apart from train stations, airports, streets……. yadda yadda yadda).

The magnificent, weathered textures play nice with the old lens. Imperfections upon imperfections. Combine this with nice grainy HP5 and you’re in heaven. Continue reading “The old Farm”

Didn’t you like to play with model trains when you were young? Well I did, a long time ago and though I never took a train those last…. many years. Trains and train stations still hold the same fascination. Continue reading “Trains”

Kodak Ektachrome slide film will be back! Other than a return of Kodachrome (I can dream, no?), this is the best news of the last years. Kodak is finally waking up and rearing it’s head again. Let Fuji kill off it’s fine films one by one to sell more Instax stuff and get on the roller coaster again, good old Kodak! Read all about Ektachrome’s … Continue reading THIS IS NEWS!!!!!!!!

Long ago, it must be.

I have a photograph.

Preserve your memories, they’re all that’s left you!

Simon and Garfunkel – Bookends Continue reading “Bookends….”

Oh Olympus what have you done? One of these days on the streets: “Oh, is that the new Pen F?” I carried my Leica IIIa with a big hulking external viewfinder on top….. Continue reading Angry with Olympus…