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About Me Member Portrait Photographer CountElmoMale/Belgium Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Years
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Summertime Shutterbug

Thu Aug 20, 2009, 3:34 PM
  • Mood: Spidey Sense
  • Listening to: Urgent.fm
  • Reading: The Walking Dead, Fables & The Exterminators
  • Watching: Days getting too warm, thunderclouds
  • Playing: with your minds
  • Eating: Emptying my dads fridge in the weekends
  • Drinking: There is no such thing as "too much Coffee&am
Saddly, no-one captured my 15K views.
Why could it be? The main culprit for it would by my artistic inactivity.
I haven't had any new Deviations submitted for a long time. Partly because I was too busy with life, work, etc.
Partly because I didn't photograph that much lately.

Undevelopped rolls in my fridge, with god knows what on it, it makes me wonder ...

But last week I was in Berlin, taking a well deserved vacation break from the busy July working period.
When in July we had this multi facetted festival going on, and lots of people were photographing the bands, the people, the atmosphere, and my trigger finger got itchy.
I had to rekindle my love for the lightscribing again, and hence I was still the analogue man, I first took my dads digital camera, took a few shots (none of them great, because it was the first I used it) and secondly the Nikon from work.
I experimented a bit, took a few good ones and was all retaken by the shutterbug.
I'll upload the good ones soon, but they're on my work computer.

Now, in Berlin I had my old trusty Pentax analogue beast with me, 2 lenses (50mm 1.8 and a 28-80mm) and the leftover unused rolls in the fridge (2 cheap colour rolls of 200 ASA, 1 Kodak Tri-X 400 ASA my preferred format, 1 Kodak CN Sepia film 400 ASA and a Kodak 3200 ASA that I had still in my camera with only 8 pics taken, so that'll make some funky double exposures later when I re-use it).

First days I used my colours to do some basic touristy pics of stuff, but the last day or so, we went to Olympia Stadium, which unfortunately was closed due to the World Championships Athletics (amazing recordbreaking stuff going over there) but the stadium itself was only open for people with tickets, so saddly no grainy shots of Nazi Architecture for me.
But not far from the stadium there is this amazing site called Teufelsberg ( check <a href=\"http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=teufelsberg+berlin&sll=52.469397,5.509644&sspn=4.484907,14.117432&ie=UTF8&ll=52.497864,13.241159&spn=0.002188,0.006893&t=h&z=18&lci=com.panoramio.all\"> for directions).

Amazing, all I can say, I shot almost 2 rolls of film on the place.

Hope they turn out well when I get the rolls developped, and scanned!

New Deviations are coming your way, so look out for those beauties, oh yeah (F. Mercury - Queen)

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* Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
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*Some Photography Groups I (in)directly belong to or am interested in, just because I'm a lazy ass photographer, and I need a task to start shooting =)
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*Would someone be interested in a petition to resurrect the :calvin: & :hobbes: emotes? They are missed by many!

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  • Current Residence: The back of your head
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: Male Medium
  • Interests: Too much to note
  • Favourite movie: Requiem for a dream, PI, Donnie Darko, Elephant, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ............
  • Favourite band or musician: Jeff Buckley, Air, Moloko, Muse, Portishead and many, many more
  • Favourite genre of music: All-round
  • Favourite artist: Liechtenstein, Warhol, Edvard Munch, Escher, ....
  • Favourite poet or writer: Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adam, Irvine Welsh, Douglas Coupland, Brett Easton Ellis, Peter Verhelst...
  • Favourite photographer: Nan Goldin, Weegee, Carl Dekeyser, Jeff Wall, Stephan Vanfleteren, Rieneke Dijkstra, Anton Corbijn.
  • Favourite style of art: Pixel-art, websites and skinning, De Stijl, Constructivism, Pop-Art, Dada
  • Operating System: Dual-Boot Win98 (old games) and WinXP
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp, Itunes
  • Shell of choice: seashells, heroes in a half shell!
  • Wallpaper of choice: the cool, abstract or stylised ones (so no stupid bikini-clad bimbo's on my desktop), minimalis
  • Skin of choice: non windows, non standard, freckled
  • Favourite game: Settlers of Catan, Magic The Gathering, everything RPG (be it CRPG, table top or console), boardgame
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC, SNES, NES, 8-bit stuff, old skool gaming
  • Favourite cartoon character: Brain (Pinky & the), Bumblebee man (Simpsons), Family Guy cast (mostly Stewie) & Futurama
  • Personal Quote: Tetten!
  • Tools of the Trade: L&M Cigarettes, Pentax super A & Pentax KX, Lomo and my wit
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Merci voor de fav! ;)

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:w00t: :dance: :cake: !!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! :cake: :dance: :w00t:

It's September 28th which means it's your special day. Hoping you have a fantastic birthday, get some nice gifts and generally get to enjoy it lots.

All the best and much love from the birthdays team to you :hug:

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thank you so much!

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