A few weeks ago some a brave entrepreneur organized a flea market, and I was there! A strange affair I probably wrote about earlier. The Konstablerwache - which has housed Saturday markets through the Corona crisis - had been fenced off for the occasion, tickets were sold and visitors were carefully counted. Go figure... A couple had a few nice cameras for sales, including a Voigtländer Perkeo I which immediately caught my heart. It makes a contemporary Zeiss Ikonta feel rough in comparison, and with its Color Skopar 80mm f/3.5 with a Synchro Compur going down to 1/500th second, it was an offer I simply could not refuse. I'm glad I didn't. It feels absolutely fabulous, film loading and unloading is immensely facilitated by cradles swinging out of the body, and the lens is clearly outstanding.
Voigtländer Perkeo I and Color Skopar 80mm f/3.5, Fomapan 400 (exposed for ISO 100, I got mixed up) in Rodinal 1+50 for 13min @ 21°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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I am afraid of that story by Saul bellow (Leaving the Yellow House), I remember but the title and a vague feeling of melancholy. But that striking yellow house along the Hölderlinpfad instantly brought it back to mind. I probably should read it again.
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This sunday I decided to finally walk down the Hölderlinpfad from Bad Homburg to Frankfurt. I'll let you read this PDF for background, and if per chance you've never read Hölderlin, well... he's one of the finest poets I know. By the way, a nice selection of his works illustrated by Barbara Klemm has recently been published. The hike is not meant to be particularly scenic, and regularly turns into a proper experience in minimal tourism. You get to walk through industrial areas, along busy roads... and along that sugar beet field with the most blatant example of greenwashing I've ever seen: "sweet climate rescuers - every hectare binds 36 tons of CO2". Further on, an oats field had a sign on the Muesli growing there.
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Tamed nature along the Hölderlinpfad... a bit unsharp, it's one of these where I let my finger in the way of the shutter lever, blocking it on its way back up. Did I mention folders ergonomics are a bit kinky?
Voigtländer Perkeo I and Color Skopar 80mm f/3.5, Fomapan 400 (exposed for ISO 100, I got mixed up) in Rodinal 1+50 for 13min @ 21°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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The Hölderlinpfad takes you over the Frankfurter Berg, where I found the S-Bahn station under construction. One interesting thing in Germany is that trees in cities enjoy quite a bit of protection. If by chance the authorities have decided one of them is dying and might fall on people, or there is no way around cutting it for construction reasons, they put a leaflet on it with an explanation on why the poor thing has to go, along with the coordinates of the office that collects formal objections from concerned citizen. And if they get to survive the construction sites, measures are taken to prevent damage.
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