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Polaroids gone wrong

Took my trusty SX-70 out for a walk the other day, as it was beautiful outside, almost spring-like temperatures and blue skies. The SX-70 has been behaving a bit strange since it spent a night outside, during a thunderstorm. Though, to be honest, I’m surprised it still works at all. When pressing the shutter the [...]

A Sunday Afternoon

A few weeks ago we took our friends from Australia, who are currently living in Berlin, out to the Soviet monument in Treptower Park. It’s a pretty incredible place, and I love coming here. Not a lot of tourists come here, and there’s usually not much going on. I also love bringing the Polaroid 110B [...]

A Walk

In the process of building up a new business, a lot of time I get either stuck, something drags me down, or I just need to clear my head and take some time to mull certain things over. That’s when I reach for a camera and go for a walk. It does wonders, every time. [...]

The Last Day of Summer

Feels like it’s been ages since I took these photos, but it’s currently a nice 20 degrees outside in late October, so it feels only fitting to post them. It was a beautiful day in September, pretty much the last time we hung out in our garden for the entire day. We picked raspberries, had [...]

Everyday Polaroid

I started resenting not taking photos on a daily basis anymore. I just admire Astrid’s way and endurance of doing that. Then I remember that I still have a crap load of expired Polaroid 664 film left. Time to get out the 110B camera and get shooting! The two bottom shots were taken with Fuji [...]

A Short Review of the Holgaroid Back

I’ve had an original Holgaroid back (the one originally made by Polaroid) for a while now. It’s a great accessory, but unfortunately can only use type 80 film, which is almost impossible to come by these days. Unfortunate, because I like square. I realised that shopping mistake only when it was too late, when I [...]

Lunch Break at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport

As I’m working from home now most of the time, I’ve made it my new personal regiment to head out on a bike ride for lunch instead of eating. Served me well that it’s been very summer-y all week long so far. Just the other day, on my first 20km round through Berlin, I passed [...]

2010: My Year Of Coffee

Last year I learned a lot about coffee, but most importantly: I learned that there’s a lot more to coffee than just espresso. Well-brewed coffee has so much more to offer in terms of taste, smoothness and enjoyment. That great coffee is the result of simplicity but precision, consistency in results is a virtue. In [...]

The Coffee Shop Diaries: The Barn in Berlin

The last two months have been pretty crazy for me. I somehow managed to travel through half of Europe (at least that’s what it feels like), still manage to get some stuff done, spend quality time with family and foster my love for coffee. When working for a client in central Berlin, I regularly found [...]

Pizza Weekends

This has become a regular sight these days. I have no idea why I haven’t started making my own pizza dough earlier, it’s so ridiculously easy. It all started with an innocent, but insanely delicious shaved asparagus pizza. It was so ridiculously easy to make, well except for shaving the asparagus, I facepalmed myself that [...]

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