A particularly fiery twilight sunset as seen from my balcony. Quite apocalyptic if you ask me.

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Well, here I am back after a very long time during which I engaged in a multitude of pleasant activities. Photography unfortunately took to the sidelines but it still remains one of my main hobbies.
Here are three photos that I took a while back (in fact I wanted to post them last year in 2008 [...]

The final part of my series shot on Ilford film, with the Canon F-1 manual SLR.
As a final word, I don’t know if you can notice the film grain in these small images but, well… I find it absolutely amazing. There’s no way digital will ever be able to mimic the texture of grainy film. [...]

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Live bait dispensing machine, Goose Lake, Illinois, Ilford HP5 400 B&W film, May 2007

Grass, Goose Lake, Illinois, Ilford HP5 400 B&W film, May 2007

Overgrown barn door, Goose Lake, Illinois, Ilford HP5 400 B&W film, May 2007

Rusted grain conveyor, Illinois, Ilford HP5 400 B&W film, May 2007

Abandoned barn, [...]

Back in May of 2007 I drove with some friends somewhere south of Chicago, to a place called Goose Lake. I had the notion that the place would be interesting. I was wrong. The whole thing was flat, featureless prairie. To be truthful, there was a big lake there and a nature preserve, but it [...]