Franconian_Nomad

Okay, nicht schlagen, ich halte den Klimawandel für eine ernste Gefahr…

Aber das Ende Juli (oder allgemein im Hochsommer) Bäume ihre ersten Blätter verlieren deckt sich durchaus mit meinen Beobachtungen. Ab August sehe ich seit 20 Jahren in den Regenrinnen oder auf Rasenflächen die ersten Häufchen kleiner, vertrockneter Blätter. Manchmal auch vereinzelt ein gelbes Blatt in einem Baum. Klar, in einem Monat ist fast September, in 2 Monaten fast Oktober!

Kann also am Klimawandel liegen, muss aber nicht. Ich schätze mal, es kommt auf die Menge an.

She was already dead when the picture was taken.

I hate it when that happens!

That would be a good print for a t-shirt.

If his greed surpasses his cowardice and he sees an opportunity, sure.

I like their older stuff. „Clocks“, „Trouble“, „yellow“ or „The scientist“ are fucking awesome.

After that I listened to them less and less.

Are they bots? This reads like a parody, like someone re-enacting a Reddit post after only having heard stories about the website.

The jokes aren’t even funny…

Yeah, the times certainly changed. I can understand the urge to protect kids from dangers, but sometimes we are also holding them back by being to overprotective.

Same here. As soon as I could read I always had my nose in a book. Only competitor to those was the computer my parents got.

Never did write much, besides some journaling in my early teens, but I remember I could basically create a whole (small) school essay in my Head, before putting it in one go down on paper. Yeah… I totally lost this ability. The words are jumbling in my head and sometimes I forget what I wanted to write a few seconds ago. That got better after I picked up journaling again, tho.

The Nikon F100 sounds awesome. Those last SLRs before digital took over were beasts!

It was sure nice talking to you, looking forward to more conversations!

Thank you for your story! I envy you a bit for your childhood friend, that sounds like an awesome acquaintance!

I’m just an amateur photographer who was never too interested in photography back then. I did shoot some film, but only on some cheap point and shoot cameras from the 90s. However, my father had some old SLR camera he used during vacations. That might have planted the seed why I suddenly got interested in photography 20 years later.

Sometimes a bit of nostalgia doesn’t hurt, thanks again for sharing this story from your past. If you want to get back into photography, I’ve heard all the cool kids shoot now with Nikon F3s ;)

The book is also photography related, I apologise. It’s a book about the canon A1, basically a glorified manual, written by a German author in the 70s. The book is very useful, but he author gushes about the camera more than a paid YouTube influencer today.

The lens should be the Canon FD 50mm 1.8, a very good lens, but I have my eye on the 50mm 1.4 and 55mm 1.2 S.C.C.

Through coincidence I got my hands on an old SLR, and while cumbersome and expensive, („Portra 400 is too damn expensive!!!“) filmphotography rekindled my my joy in photography.

Thanks for the link, seems handy!

Perspective. The railing is on the upper side of the picture. The balcony walls are glass. ;)