Polaroid infected

View of my hotel bed, originally uploaded by topfloor.

Today I visited the Impossible Project Gallery and Store on Broadway / Manhattan. The pictures they show are astonishing, they blow them up to an incredible size.

They have refurbished vintage Polaroid cameras for sale, a silver SX70 fell into my hands, together with some packs of PX100 bw and Milk4th color film. Looking forward to polaroid around in New York the coming days :-)

http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

Happy shooting, Carsten

Featured by Torontoist

LEVI's umbrella, originally uploaded by topfloor.

This bokeh hunt shot I made in Toronto during heavy rain made it as the Photoist selction of the group - thx to the adminds for that!

Have a look at the Torontoist website here http://torontoist.com/2010/09/photoist_september_29_2010.php

in Toronto now

Toronto Sky II, originally uploaded by topfloor.

fine City, good weather, fun on the streets . . .

I have been in the city of Toronto / Canada for three days now. Thanks to some nice contacts, I could explore the streets with other cool shooters and get to know a little bit of this town. Very enjoyable so far.

And I learned a few new little tricks in LR3 which is always a pleasure :-)

My new NEX5 behaves well and works with my Leica lenses thanks to the Voigtlaender adapter.

Happy shooting,
Carsten

New headphone - tech sidenote

Concert for one #3, originally uploaded by fortytwenty.

On my recent trip to Berlin I had the chance to try out the new Bowers and Wilkens P5 headphones. Besides being small and even with glasses a comfortable wear, the sound quality is very good.

Definitely bigger than the in-ear-things, the P5 still folds down to a pretty small pack and can be stowed away in a decent sack provided with them.

Should you be looking for new headphones, you might want to give them a try. Sound quality on the iPhone is inderior because of the cheap D/A unit, but on an iPod remarkably well, if you have recorded your music in high quality MP3 or Apple Lossless format.

The headphones have a builöt in microphone in the cable so you can use them for hands free phone calls as well.

Amazon Video for the P5

This excellent Photo was taken by fortytwenty

Frame within

Frame within, originally uploaded by topfloor.

An example of my shots I took the analogue way during a week long trip. I visited Dresden, Karlsbad and Prague, exposing more than 50 rolls of film (mostly 120 bw).

Business and travels keep me busy this summer, so blogging is difficult for me right now. Thx for staying tuned. Have fun!
Carsten

and the winner is . . .

Spaceship V - up in the sky, originally uploaded by topfloor.

Brian Auer from his EPIC Edits Blog choose this photo (inspired by a shot of the same location by my friend - Composer - out of my Flickr stream as his fav shot. Have a look at his interesting blog over here

EPIC Edits

and see more photos like this by me over here

Vanishing Points set

Have fun!
Carsten

vanishing lines

vanishing, originally uploaded by topfloor.

Having returned for some days from my travels to Prague, Malta and Berlin, I am scanning the many rolls of film I filled on these travels (10 done with 54 to go) - kind of boring job ;-) . So I find some time to blog a little . . .

For a call for photos on a blog, I screended my stream for vanishing point shots - and was surprised to fund out I had shot dozens shots fitting that theme in the last 2 years - obviously I was (and am) addicted to these kind of geometric things without relising it :-)

Head over to the Epic Edits Blog to find out details about these theme calls and have fun.