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Shanghai
Luckily, the aviation world is still very complicated. These complications sometimes can be an opportunity. This spring it was an opportunity to visit China again. After some magic with the airline booking system, a 3-day transfer in Shanghai was confirmed. Writing this post almost 6 months after the trip, being in a somewhat messy state,
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Kamakura
I wasn’t expecting to come back that soon. I wanted to, but I didn’t expect it. But as unexpectedly soon as it happened, similarly unexpectedly, it passed. But this trip was one of the few truly remarkable ones. I’ve had a chance to visit a conference in Tokyo – in Tachikawa, to be precise. I
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Egypt
Film,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
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Yerevan escape
Fog Keeping something good in secret is a tough thing. Especially when it is already almost happening and you want to scream to the whole world that soon very soon one of the happiest moments will happen. But in order for this to really happen, you have to be quiet. The foggy airport suggests this
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Asia’24. 서울
Final part The last stop. It was quite a journey. After visiting truly otherworldly Japan we made our way to Seoul to connect all the dots and justify the “codename” of this journey: Three Capitals of Asia.This time I want to start with film photos. Although, less than half of the film became “keepers” this
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Asia’24. Kyoto, Osaka
Tourists, tourists, tourists Our next destination was Kyoto. I don’t know for sure if it would be counted as visiting Japan without visiting Kyoto. But, there is another side to this. I think almost everyone who visits Japan, wants to visit Kyoto. However, this city is much smaller than Tokyo and is not supposed to
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Hiroshima
Peace Visiting the peace park in Hiroshima evoked the most complex and powerful emotions. You don’t need colors to convey this, so the photos are on black and white ILFORD film. The building is the accidentally surviving ruins of an exhibition center near the center of the first used agains people nuclear bomb explosion. I
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Asia’24. 東京
Hieroglyphs Recently I understood that the biggest reason for my curiosity about Asian languages happens to be characters. There is something magical about them. How something that very distantly visually reminds of the meaning or sounding can be used as a writing system for a language. Speaking about it from an information science perspective, the
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Asia’24. 北京
Digital+Analog As much as I thought it shouldn’t be the case, I think the moment has come for the first post (after a prolonged pause) with both digital and film photos to be released. I thought they were too different and preserving analog photos in separate sections makes this type of photography more special. But
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Summer notes ’24
Notes As this whole part of the blog is called “Notes”, here it is. Notes from the warm part of 2024. Düsseldorf and some places around. Just a thought: on the website where you pay for the storage capacity, it is really a notebook and not just notes spread around the platform. This notebook has
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Antalya ’24
Film,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
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Mediterranean Triangle (part 2)
Malta The second stop of our triangular trip was Malta. It is a place from which you either have very high expectations or don’t have any. Because it is a relatively distant island country. Something must be unique there. Or nothing special. In the end, everyone decides for themselves. And I think this decision is
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Mediterranean Triangle (part 1)
Athens Finally, the summer is here! Okay, maybe not here where I am now, but in Greece, the summer has certainly got full power. We went on our first summer vacation to Greece and Malta. That’s why this post is called Mediterranean Triangle. The boarding of the flight was going perfectly smooth until our captain
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Warm day on Fuji film
Film,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
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Conference in Copenhagen
Film,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
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Three different films
Film,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
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Easter trip
Wernigerode When you’re coming back to a place that you remember from childhood, it often may seem like the place has gotten smaller over the years. Somehow the same happened to me in the small cozy town of Wernigerode even though the last time I was there was 11 years ago. And I wasn’t so
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Düsseldorf Airport and Rails.
(part 3). When I moved here, I was fascinating by city’s transport infrastructure. Anyone can just jump on train on the closest metro station and go to another city. Or to one more another one. Or change to regional train and in half an hour be in Cologne. In short, I still feel a need
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Düsseldorf, part 2.
Night time. Concert. After moving to Düsseldorf in 2024 I saw a picture of an amazing concert hall on one of the city’s Instagram accounts. It was shocking: the hall looked like a huge star in space that flows its light on a wooden stage. Immediately I decided to find a concert in that hall
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Düsseldorf, part 1.
Why part. Düsseldorf is a very special city for me. Perhaps, because I am living here now. Each city we call home one day takes a special place. This time I didn’t have any other reason to take photos other than to just take them and, of course, learn the camera, and get used to
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Wuppertal. One of a kind
Point on map There are countless number of places worth visiting. And it is difficult to decide which point you should visit next time. Some spots are far away and it feels precious just to be there, although sometimes the aftertaste tells you it wasn’t truly worth it. Which is wrong. With the small city
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What is Echo
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
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Digital sunset
Digital camera arrived After receiving my first digital camera, I finally admitted: there will be a lot of photos. For sure more than “1-2 rolls of film in 1-2 months”. Even now I have already couple of hundreds more on the camera waiting to be reviewed and then posted or removed. So, what is the
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Black & White Friday
Film,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
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Asian pre-Christmas
Film,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
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Marrakesh
Film,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.
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First film camera
Film,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
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