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.
Here is an image of a local Bluebell Wood. Although Bluebells are naturalised in other parts of the world, they are actually native to Western Europe, and over half of the world's population are found in the UK.
Bluebells are a common indicator species for ancient woodlands, so bluebell woods can date back at least 1600 years.
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.
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.