When I went to Germany on my own this time, I expected and intended to try a lot more of Euro street photography. It has been said, by a in this respect and others completely unreliable German source, that taking photos of people in public is much more difficult than in Japan. This comment makes sense to some degree. Apart from receiving a, shall... 

Photo by Greg Miller Greg Miller, a large format photographer who I have discovered just recently, has published a new series called Band Camp. It was mainly after seeing Miller’s work that I decided to try out large format photography for myself, albeit on the more modest size of 4×5″ instead of his 8×10″. The properties... 

Die Zeit Yesterday I open a long ignored issue of the really excellent and under-appreciated (by me) German weekly newspaper Die Zeit and one sentence in the centre of the page jumps right into my eye. …the orientation of character towards rationality hampers spiritual experiences. The nice thing about recognising a true answer to a question... 

Some notable things: - cars stop at zebra crossings - all shop assistants wish “a nice day” - it rains on most days - it is 20 degrees colder than Japan - it is extremely difficult to get decent photo supplies in Niedersachsen (”Lower Saxony”, postcode 3xxxx); mentioning sheet film creates blank gazes - the photo fair was a bunch...