Rokkakudō (“hexagonal hall”) is a Buddhist temple in Kyoto. It is famous as the birthplace of Ikebana. When you approach it from Karasuma-dori, you will see it make an impactful appearance behind Starbucks Coffee. I also found an aerial vantage point in an adjacent building.
Shot with Mamiya 6 and 50mm f/4 lens on Fujicolor Pro 400H film.
This photo was taken while walking along a quiet side street in the Naramachi area of Nara, Japan. A nice and typical mellow scene from this part of the country.
Shot with Mamiya 6 and 50mm f/4 lens on Fuji Astia 100F medium-format slide film. The film was expired for 16 years by the time I shot it, but fortunately the typical Astia colors held up pretty nicely.
Had a great time shooting with a #Holga during Holga Week. The only shots that didn't come out were the ones I knew would be sketchy. It's still a hassle to shoot with all the tape to protect from light leaks, but you really get photos with a lot of heart.
The historic Higashi Chayagai (ひがし茶屋街) district of Kanazawa is home to many shops and cafés in restored old tea houses. As visible in this photo, even the oldest establishments are keeping up to speed in providing the technology expected by today’s patrons.
Shot with Mamiya 6 and 50mm f/4 lens on Fujicolor Pro 400H film.
I bought my Mamiya 6 in 2015 at Nisshin Camera near Akihabara. I also got two lenses, a 75mm and a 50mm. The shop owner threw in a free roll of Portra so that I could start shooting right away. And so, out of the shop I went to Hijiri-bashi, the bridge outside Ochanomizu Station that affords this famous view along the Kanda River.
Shot with Mamiya 6 and 75mm f/3.5 lens on Kodak Portra 160 film.
Oya Temple (大谷寺, Ōyaji) is a 1200 year old Buddhist temple constructed in the volcanic stone cliffs on the outskirts of Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
Photo shot with Mamiya 6 and 50mm f/4 lens on Fujicolor Pro 400H medium-format film.
Nothing in Singapore is forever, including entire neighbourhoods you have all your memories in.
I took a walk around Tanglin Halt, which is going to be torn down and redeveloped, and will be completely different from the one of my childhood the next time I return.
(Yashica Mat 124G, Portra 400, dev and scan by Whampo Colour Centre, Singapore)
This device is a communal incense burner. Taoists (mostly) use them for offerings during holy days/ months, and instead of sticking wax and candles into the ground, they put their stuff in here.
(Yashica 124G, Portra 400, dev and scan by Whampoa Colour Centre, Singapore)
Today is the five-year anniversary of my wife and me leaving Germany to move to Japan.
An opportunity to take a fond look back at the area in which we had lived. Tübingen is a traditional university town located around 30km south of Stuttgart, with an impossibly picturesque historic city center.
All photos shot with Mamiya 6 and 50mm f/4 lens on Fujicolor Pro 400H medium-format film.
I was very delighted to discover there’s an active and thriving #BelieveInFilm community on Mastodon a while back. There’s a whole cluster of hashtags where you can find lovely analog pictures, like #FilmPhotography, #35mm, #MediumFormat and more.
This photo was taken by my lovely wife. The next photo from the same session has been published here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/610509435470497665 and was captured using the old camera you see in the picture.
I really enjoy taking photos with this camera because you can only take 12 shots, and you look through the viewfinder downwards, not forwards.