So, today it is official. I can finally wish you all a very Merry Christmas or as they say in German…Fröhlich Weihnacten!!
Not only does the 1st Advent signify the beginning of the Christmas holiday season…it also welcomes once again our annual village Weihnachtsmarkt. This fairy tale village of tiny pine covered wooden...
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Through the Large Format Photography forum we have been lucky enough to meet a fellow large format addict…who is denial of the aforementioned affliction.
It was he who told us about the Photo Expo in Houten Netherlands, so we arranged a meet up at the event.
Eddie Gunks, with a character as large as his camera, he...
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Our nugget of gold as mentioned in the last blog, turned out to be a hand turned, hand ground Derogy lens, made in Paris around 1860.
This lens which will be used for portrait photography, in a large format studio camera. It is a lens that comes for sale once in a lifetime, so you can...
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Last Sunday, we ventured up to the Netherlands to a town just south of Amsterdam called Houten for their Photo Expo.
We arrived under beautiful blue skies to the conference centers already packed parking lots. A shocker since we arrived spot on 11am which was their opening time. People were bursting to get in and share...
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The other evening, while we had willing victims…(some call them guests), we tested out our newly converted antique lens on our 4×5 Toyo Field camera. This lens, my husband hunted down on various sites like the Large Format Photography Forum and Ebay, it is approximately 110 years old…well, why listen to me talk about it…let...
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I know you are thinking…Carnival or Mardi Gras…already? Here in Ladenburg Germany they celebrate the start of Fastnacht or Fasching on the Saturday after November 11 at 11:11 exactly.
This was my first year experiencing this fest and it was only by chance that I was in attendance. After a week of small festivals and events...
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November 11 is a day of great remembrance. Not only is it the day to commemorate the Armistice or the end of WWI , in America we call it Veteran’s day, in Germany for obvious reasons it is not celebrated in the same manner. Here in Germany they celebrate the feast day of St. Martin...
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