A woman with angel wings in Ukrainian colors stands in front of the Old Opera House in Frankfurt during a demonstration on Feb. 24, marking the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – a war that killed thousands and forced eight million Ukrainians to leave their homes and flee abroad.
After purchasing a simple JJC reproduktion device I just took a few frames of old negatives that I shot in 1987 when Madonna performed in Frankfurt. I remember taking these pictures was pretty difficult as none of the accredidated media were aware that we had to shoot from about a hundred meters away from the stage. I was probably the only one who brought that enormous Nikon 600mm telephoto lens. Of course, those were analogue times and I used Fuji 1600 color negative film which even had to be pushed at least one stop. The quality is accordingly bad. These photos weren’t published before.
Reproductions taken with a Sony A7r IV and FE 2.8/50 Macro lens.
Porsche CEO Oliver Blume is reflected in the rearview mirror of a vintage Porsche 356 before the initial public offering for the German sportscar maker at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, Sep.29.
A woman wearing a face mask looks out of a tram at Frankfurt’s Konstabler Wache station, Dec.10.
As the partial lockdown in Germany due to the coronavirus and the release of Photoshop’s new neural filter “colorize” almost coincided, I had time to try and see what the filter can do. Here is an example of a color photo of Frankfurt taken just after nightfall. The original is shown at right above, the de-colorized version below, done in Photoshop. The neural filter then created a new version of the b-w picture adding computer-generated colors. See for yourself and let me know what you think.
Frankfurt and the Main after dark, Dec.18.
(Sony A7r III, Canon EF 100-400 plus Metabones Adapter)
An impression of Frankfurt’s Museumsuferfest (museum embankment festival), taken Aug.27 with a Nikon Coolpix A at an exposure time of 0,8 seconds. The festival is considered one of the biggest cultural events in Europe, drawing a crowd of some 2 million people every year.
Members of the Berlin based theater company Grotest Maru reahearse on an old loading crane (July 26) for their performance the next day at the “Sommerwerft” (summer wharf) theater festival that is taking place in Frankfurt July 22 thru Aug 07.
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