It took almost two months for the Moskva to arrive from a remote part of Russia. She(?) appeared to be in excellent condition and I was about to load the first film. Fortunately, I noticed that the pressure plate was mounted the wrong way around before actually putting the film in. This was easy to fix and I exposed the first roll with various aperture and speed settings. The developed film looks good and I’ll either scan or print it tomorrow.

Yesterday, I set up a darkroom in the basement and did my very first print on Fomaspeed paper. What a satisfying feeling to go through the whole process of doing test prints, determining the desired time to expose the paper, the actual exposure, moving the paper through the chemicals and the joy of holding result in your hands.

waiting for a parcel from far far away…

I haven’t posted for a while and for several reasons. I spent most of October traveling South East Asia. There were a lot of opportunities for taking pictures. But with all the resulting pictures comes a responsibility: Choosing only the best ones and throw the rest away. Chris Marquardt has described his workflow for doing that, but I am still having a hard time deleting pictures. And then there is the additional challenge of syncing my assessment of what is cool with what my wife thinks is a good picture. That is because christmas is coming up, and we have to agree on the selection of Asia pics to show to our family. In the end, this took longer than I anticipated. Some other excuses for not posting in a long time:

I was busy doing other things, but while reading a long and thorough text on what is known about VW’s manipulation of the emission tests and how that story has been developing for about 10 years, I thought I might post an 2013 picture from Myanmar describing the issue.

Our company participated with several hundred runners in a 6,1 km fun run and I was lucky enough to get a press permit. No big deal, because there was no exclusive back stage or the like. But I enjoyed being able to move around unrestrained by guards inside the big soccer stadium where the run finished.