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Berlin-based Brazilian blogger and photographer who enjoys discovering new places and showcasing the world one moment at a time. βοΈ hello@ftrc.blog [β¦] π bridged from https://mastodon.social/@ftrc on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Kite festival with a lot of colorful, animal-shaped kites flying over a cloudy sky, the Berlin TV Tower in the distance, and a sizable crowd on the ground.
It has been a while since I posted any redscale film pictures here. And since I got a roll developed in my last batch, this is the time to post them here.
The Festival of Giant Kites on Tempelhofer Feld, which happened in September every year, is clearly [β¦]
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Since I just learned that Frank Gehry died last week, here is an article I wrote in 2016 about the Neuer Zollhof, aka the Gehry Buildings, in Dusseldorf.
https://ftrc.blog/gehry-buildings-dusseldorf-harbor/
Nighttime street scene with the neon sign βKRANZLERβ above a round building with a striped awning and people visible inside; a white car with headlights on drives on a wet road, leaving light trails. The image is framed with a filmstrip border.
Every so often I go out with an experimental thought in my head, and the results work out better than expected.
That was the case on a summer evening when I took my #Mamiya RZ67 and several rolls of film to West Berlin with a tripod at hand. Some of them I [β¦]
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View of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany, behind a decorative gold and green gate. The palace features a large domed roof topped with a golden statue, a clock face, and two golden starburst decorations on the facade. The sky is a clear blue.
View of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin through framing of trees, green lawns, and paths, with a large tree in the foreground obscuring the right side.
Partial view of a baroque building dome with gilded crowns and statues, featuring a bird in flight against a clear blue sky.
Four classical statues stand atop a cream-colored building with dark-framed windows against a light blue sky.
In October, my sister came to visit, and we showed her around town. It was fun to see #Berlin through the eyes of a tourist again. One of the places that we took her was the Schloss Charlottenburg that you can see in the pictures here.
In my opinion, the [β¦]
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Finally, a short update to my /NOW page with what has been going on for the last few monthsβ¦
https://ftrc.blog/now/
@joergi I need to add my music there!
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Since today is #bandcampfriday and someone just bought one of my drone/noise albums, I sense that this is the right time to share one of my favorite albums from the last few yearsβ¦
Children Who Have Never Seen the Sky, by Muqdisho [β¦]
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A vibrant dragon kite soars in a blue sky above a kite festival, with numerous other kites in various shapes and colors also in the air, and a ground-level view of tents and spectators.
Toward the end of September, I brought my camera to the annual Festival of Giant Kites on Tempelhofer Feld.
One of the films I brought was a French film that had been expired since the early 1990s called Requa 100. I don't remember how I got my hands on this [β¦]
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I just made a small update to a page where I collect all the abandoned places I went to and wrote about on my blog.
https://ftrc.blog/urban-exploration-berlin/#Schonwalde
#urbex #urbanexploration #abandoned #lostplaces
A tall, cylindrical red brick water tower with battlements, set against a cloudy pink and blue sky, framed by trees in autumn foliage, with a paved road and a car visible in the foreground.
Occasionally I try to take out a camera that doesn't see much use. This is why I took my Smena-M out for a walk around NeukΓΆlln a few weeks back.
My idea was to try to capture the fall colors with some vintage lenses, and this is what I got from the water [β¦]
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Berlin is a city with a weird tendency to discard airports. The city goes through them so fast that itβs challenging to remember all of them. One of these airports was called Flugplatz SchΓΆnwalde, and here I will tell you about its history.
It seems like not [β¦]
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Imagine having a billion dollars and wasting your time doing anything other than:
1. Reading novels in the bath
2. Making art
3. Traveling
4. Cooking and eating
5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it
Elissa using her phone inside the International Congress Centre Berlin from back in September.
https://www.lomography.com/homes/ftrc/photos/28876120?order=trending
An indoor shot of the International Congress Centre Berlin interior, featuring a prominent green-and-white wall with a large departure information display, illuminated with the number β7β and flight data. Multiple people blurred by motion, walking on the patterned floor of the station. A raised mezzanine features two people observing the scene.
I was among the group that visited the International Congress Centre #Berlin, also known as the ICC, one of Berlin's finest examples of brutalist architecture, back in September. Having been there before, I knew what I wanted to do and arrived ready.
I [β¦]
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A vibrant field filled with numerous colorful kites of various shapes and sizes flying in a hazy sky, with children and spectators on the ground.
At the end of September, I took my camera to the Festival of Giant Kites that happens every year on Tempelhofer Feld.
This time, I felt experimental and took some expired films with me. One of these films was the heavily expired Lucky Super 100 New that I [β¦]
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This story has it all: enshitification, magic and subcutaneous passwords.
""A magician in Missouri had a kooky idea: implant a computer chip into his hand and then do some fun magic tricks with it. Too bad he forgot the password."
"Moving away from using the gadget as a magic prop, he later [β¦]
An image displaying details of various Ilford black and white film stocks. Each film type is listed with specifications including ISO, size, and quantity, and is marked "EXPIRED".
Earlier this week I learned about an app that could help me out with my film collection. I used a spreadsheet before, but I never liked what I had there.
So, an app like this one was welcomed.
This morning I finished adding more than 350 rolls of film, and [β¦]
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Inside the dimly lit International Congress Centre Berlin, a metallic escalator slopes upward, flanked by a sign with a bright red illuminated number β5.β Red neon lights adorn the ceiling in a decorative pattern. A departure board sits above the escalator, and the scene is washed in a warm red and cool blue hue.
Back in September, I was part of the crowd that explored one of the best examples of brutalist architecture in Berlin: the ICC, aka International Congress Centre Berlin.
I took my Mamiya RZ67, my tripod, and a few rolls of slide film just to see if I could [β¦]
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A plush toy Mastodon elephant with orange-brown fur, black oblong eyes, small brown ears, a short trunk, white tusks, and small red cheek spots, sitting on a black laptop keyboard.
Look at what arrived at my office today from @Mastodon!
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@joergi @punk
I like the slogan! And I would have just one URL as a landing page, pointing to the others and explaining a bit about the fediverse and the rest.
Maybe even having it as www.punx.social so people with less tech skills can understand the URL.
Also, the QR code could work!
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Black and white photograph of a weathered stone sculpture of a robed figure, missing its head and right arm, standing on a step in front of a dark, layered backdrop, with foliage in the foreground. The figure holds a bunch of flowers in its remaining arm, and the robe has heavy folds and draping. The dark backdrop has structural elements in the form of columns and rectangles that add contrast to the statue.
The weather is changing here in Berlin, and the cold reminded me of my photo walks around cemeteries in NeukΓΆlln and Kreuzberg. I eventually found some pictures on my Lightroom, and these are from the beginning of the year. I believe I even posted one of them [β¦]
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β¦I remember watching the news with my family and learning what I could about what was happening in former Yugoslavian countries. I remember reading about the Kosovo conflict and how Serbia and the North Atlantic Council dealt with it.
But I was a student in [β¦]
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A black and white photograph of Venetian architecture reflected in a canal. The buildings are multi-storied and appear aged with stucco and brick, featuring shuttered windows, balconies, and an arched entrance leading to a small boat. The water reflects the buildings, creating a symmetrical composition with a solitary boat. The overall scene is dark and atmospheric.
It was more than easy for me to walk around Venice and take pictures of everything. Some of these pictures are from fantastical places that everyone recognizes easily.
The pictures here are from a black and white roll that I believe I never edited before for [β¦]
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A little over a year ago, I got myself my first rangefinder: a Canon L-1
Here is a #Flickr album with some of the pictures I took during these months.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gastaum/albums/72177720329204096/
#believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #analogphotography
I unsubscribed from more than 20 newsletters that I don't care much about in the last hour or so.
I imagine that whoever turns off the AI features will do something like that as well.
Excellent job here, Google.
It's cool to see how you shut off AI features on Gmail and you lose the entire inbox folder structure.
Thank you, Google, for being so shitty.
This is an excellent way to convince me to unsubscribe from some newsletters I get and to move to Proton Mail.
Any other e-mail suggestions?
If you are looking for a fantastic city break in a place that combines architecture with deep history and, at the same time, brings a modern feel to everything, I know where you need to go. Poznan is one of Polandβs most important historical cities, and it [β¦]
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A black and white, fisheye lens shot of a man holding up a bottle of beer. The man wears a baseball cap, square glasses, and a collared shirt. The bottle, held in his raised right hand, has a label visible that reads βBURG ORT.β The man is smiling at the camera. In the background, a body of water and buildings are visible.
Black and white fisheye shot of a young woman on a rooftop with a city skyline in the background. The woman is wearing a t-shirt and headphones around her neck and has tattoos on her arm. She is leaning against a wall where the word βFATβ is spray-painted. Several bottles are on the wall, including one with the label visible, and other buildings are in the background.
A black and white, low-angle shot of a woman smiling slightly, holding two pint glasses of beer, with buildings and other people in the blurred background. The woman, the main focus, is wearing a shirt, jacket, and necklace.Β A man with sunglasses and a cap stands to her right, and a man walking in the opposite direction is to her left. The sky is overcast, and the shot has a fisheye lens effect.Β There is faint text visible on her shirt.
A grayscale, fisheye lens-style photo featuring a woman holding a phone to take a selfie and a man standing next to her. The woman is the focus, smiling broadly, holding a phone in her outstretched arm. She wears a floral print sleeveless top. Behind her, out of focus, a man wearing a baseball cap and holding a bottle is visible. The scene has a grainy texture. The edges of the image are blurred by the fisheye lens.
These pictures are from the summer of 2024, when my friends from Canal Alemanizando were trying to measure the temperature of the beers we drank during the day.
They brought a thermometer; I brought a Holga camera with a fisheye lens adapter that I bought on [β¦]
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I finally created an album for the pictures I take with my Holga #Pinhole on Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gastaum/albums/72177720330221964/
#believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #analogphotography
Ruinenberg in #Potsdam is a hill on which the Prussian king Frederick the Great ordered a water tank. This tank, decorated with fake ruins, was intended to supply the gorgeous Sanssouci Palace nearby, where the name comes from.
During a visit to Potsdam in [β¦]
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