North Sea | Sunny 16 #2 (Set 4/6)

maipenquynh on 27. July 2022

For the next two sets, I’ll take you on my last summer vacation.

It was the first time that I had vacation at the North Sea. It was boring in a nice way. We were on the beach, I barely touched the water. It was mandatory to rent a bike and I enjoyed riding around the island where we were. The island’s vegetation is different from the mainland’s one, and sea buckthorn was a thing there (not my thing at all) and seagulls were there, too, of course.

Taking photos on the beach with all that sand around wasn’t the smartest idea, especially when your hands are all over with sunscreen. Afterwards one is always wiser, right?

Another thing which also wasn’t very smart, was to photograph sand when the film itself was ISO 400, meaning that the film is very rough-grained. So looking at the picture of the sand, I’m not sure whether it’s a sand grain or a film grain that I see.

But that doesn’t hinder me to dream myself back into the strandkorb.

Hard facts!

Kamera + Objektiv: Minolta Dynax 9000 + Minolta AF 50 mm f/1.4
Film: Kodak T-MAX 400
Development + scan: Fotolabor Görner Dresden

Dreaming back to the North Sea

maipenquynh on 17. December 2020

It may sound a bit narcisstic but I do really like some of the photos I’ve posted on Instagram. But thinking about it, it isn’t that narcisstic. A lot of people do like their picture and that’s the reason why they put it online, isn’t it? How Instagram has changed my way of taking photos is an interesting topic but not the reason for today’s post.

Usually I post my photos in squares on Instagram. Though I do like the complete picture as much as the square size. Both have their own character, that’s for sure. Since I like some of my photos quite much, although they have been posted some time ago, I decided to post them once again. Of course I will do that on my blog – where else.

Actually it’s also kind of a compromise. On the one hand, I rarely shoot photographs these days and at the same time I like putting photos online which I have shot myself (I promised some analogue photos in this post (german only) but I can’t access my analogue photos on the CD because I still haven’t got an external CD drive yet. And yes, stock photos are cool as well but your own photos, too!). Sunny 16 project And on the other hand I think some photos just deserve another chance to be shown and be seen. My photos are no master pieces – but it has never been and isn’t my claim (yet).

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Processed with VSCO (own settings)

I visited a friend in Cuxhaven in 2019. We cycled to the North Sea, sat and layed down on the sand. We ate chips, talked and took a nap. It was quite chilly but that didn’t bother the strandkorb (those beach chairs) much.

Going back to the last year’s vacation, dreaming. That feels good.

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