This bumblebee was happily climbing in and out of the oumpkin flower several times. I took this photo with an old M42 Beroflex 28mm lens coupled with an 16mm extension tube on an adaptor ring for my Sony Alpha 65 – tricky, but with lots of sunlight it’s a surprisingly good macro setup!

An unobstructed view of the Rieken-Haus from the North,
something Mülheim has not seen in over half a century!

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The Cherry Bombs have already grown a lot, now they just have to go red!

Recently, I finally got around to take all the old cameras from our family and took proper photos of them for a little series of posts. This is where it all began: my grandfather’s Voigtländer Brillant, the 6×6 camera that he got sometime in the mid-1930s. There is a bit of confusion about the actual manufacturing date because some lists say the shutter and lens serial numbers date the camera between 1947 and 1951 and others between 1934 and 1935, but the camera itself is clearly a metal body Brillant from the mid-1930s. It might well be the actual camera my grandfather was using to take all those photos before and during WWII – he used to tell a story that he had to take the lens off his camera after the end of the war so it would not be confiscated, which might explain the presumably newer serial number on the shutter and lens. This camera is, however, still the one he used at least well into the 1970s for 6×6 negatives and transparencies and as far as I can tell, it’s still in good working condition.

There was an impressive pile of steel wiring on the other side of the demolition site.

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