This was not that long of a trip, which is supposed to be the meeting with relatives. But life sometimes makes a less expected turn. Next time, I hope. On the bright side, the destination was perfect to catch one of the rare birds: the 757-300. A supercar in the pilot’s opinion. Overpowered aircraft have…

Meet somewhere Since already 2,5 years, the world turned upside down. The morning when devastating news spread across the globe I will remember forever. This was one of the most terrifying hours when nobody knew what would happen next. Will we be able to see our parents? Will we be able to call them?  Since…

Japan and Düsseldorf Somehow, it happened that the city I moved 3 years ago has a significant presence of Asian and especially Japanese culture. We have a special Japan day every year when the city center gets full of people from many places to celebrate Japanese culture, eat Asian food, and wear anime-style costumes. One…

Early morning at the Düsseldorf airport. Many planes are getting ready for the first flight of the day. For now, our airport doesn’t have any long-haul departures so it is almost safe to say that most of the planes will fly at least one more time today after departing rainy Düsseldorf. At least our regional…

Kodak Vision 3 Film nowadays is a precious entity. And photographers trying to experiment as much as possible with it. That’s how motion picture film made its way to our cameras. There are 2 ways of shooting motion picture film. The first is to use a film with a removed remjet layer. I already tried ReflxLab 800T film…

A place for them → In short. Yes, I just got upset about Instagram again one night. And started looking for another place to warehouse my photos. After considering more and less complicated options, here it is. Why Echo? To me, photography is about trying to capture a moment of how you see and feel…

Black Friday roll To me it is still a surprise that nowadays it is easier to find B&W film than color negative one. And variety of the former type seems to be even larger than the latter. I’ve got a roll of B&W film from lab as a gift for Black Friday. After Christmas it…

Kuala Lumpur This trip was one of the highlights of 2023. Planned it long and carefully, even pushed myself a little to complete HSK2 (Chinese analog of A2) exam by the time of this travel. I have heard many times about South-East Asia as about leisure destination with good weather in winter, cheap everything and…

Escape to Africa Cold and rainy November morning. Train to airport. Flight. First time in Morocco. First time in Africa. An astonishing difference from what we used to in boring calm and safe-paced Europe. Main square. The whole world of snakes, juices, spices, carpets and whatever you can imagine being sold. Talk to people here.…

First out It is always exciting to get a new camera, or anything else that holds more potential than it appears to. So, one November day I went out with my newly unpacked Canon 500n, which is almost as old as I am, yet it looks better (joking). It felt like the beginning of a…