just one picture: Laundry on the line
Laundry on the line
2024
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A breath of life.
Camera + lens: Olympus XA2
Film: Kodak Gold 200
Development + scan: ON FILM LAB
Laundry on the line
2024
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A breath of life.
Camera + lens: Olympus XA2
Film: Kodak Gold 200
Development + scan: ON FILM LAB
I don't want to trivialise alcohol consumption. But if I want to talk about the region in which I now live, I can't avoid wine and what goes with it. Slowly but steady, I am absorbing the knowledge and information about the way of life in this region. The following are personal impressions and supplied without liability; please understand and correct if necessary.
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I'm beginning to understand the regions (plural!) here and what they are called. I learnt that Mainz is in Rheinhessen. This is very misleading, as Mainz is also in Rhineland-Palatinate (a german state, Hesse is another state). The Rheingau is its neighbour and is actually in Hesse. Just mentioning things rarely helps me understanding and picturing things so here is a map of german wine-growing areas on Wikipedia: map. Rheinhessen and Rheingau are marked there. Maps are very helpful so I recommend taking a quick look.
When the days get longer and the temperatures rise, there are wine festivals everywhere. And when I say everywhere, I'm not exaggerating. There's one happening every weekend. There are so many wineries around!
Without being able to make a geographical mapping of what belongs where or where it comes from - important for wine or grape juice: Spundekäs. Spundekäs is made out of cream cheese and our favourite way to eat it is with crispy salted pretzels. If it is not at home but outside our home, we love to sit on an ale-bench in a Straußenwirtschaft in the warm sunlight. It does have its own charm.
I have brought along a few photos of wine events I have attended. A little insight into my wine life in the Rheingau and Rheinhessen.
Wikipedia is great: The (german) article about Spundekäs says that it's coming from northern Rheinhessen. „Straußenwirtschaft“ seems to be a term from Rheinhessen, though I have seen it in Rheingau as well.
Photo 1+2
Camera + lens: Minolta Dynax 7000i + Minolta AF 50 mm f/1.4
Film: ILFORD FP4 PLUS
Development + scan: ON FILM LAB
Photo 3
Camera + lens: Olympus XA2
Film: Kodak Gold 200
Development + scan: ON FILM LAB
A few weeks ago, I told about happy 12 euros - my library card which I had just extended was the reason for that.
While I was in the library, I even took a photo. But I didn't want to wait until it was developed and so the post went online without the photo. I was really desperate to post my happiness!
Thankfully (not ironically), Miss Booleana reminded me in her last Blogophilie , that I still had a promise to fulfil and the photo was still being awaited for (so nice ☺). The photo has had a few days (weeks?) to have its peace, now it's time to go online.
So I'm posting the photo today, and I've also included it in the corresponding post.
The picture looked different in my head, and possibly in yours, too. I hope I'm not destroying any imaginations now :'D
But that doesn't change the memories of that day: happy 12 euros.
Camera + lens: Olympus XA2
Film: Kodak Gold 200
Development + scan: ON FILM LAB