Fotoeins Fotografie

Helgoland, Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Düne, Nordsee, North Sea, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Helgoland: morning rainbow on the wharf

Formerly used as fisherman and lobster shacks, the brightly coloured huts which greet ferry passengers upon arrival are used as galleries, little cafes and restaurants, and community space. The little houses are a fine sight in the early-summer morning sun.

I made the image above with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime on 24 May 2024 with the following settings: 1/1000-sec, f/13, ISO1000, 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-sq6.

Fotoeins Friday, Helgoland: dawn light over Düne

I can hear the faint gentle lapping of the ocean against the shoreline outside my apartment window on Helgoland. But it’s the steady alarm that pushes me out of bed to catch the early light of day in late-May. For my time on a chunk of rock in the middle of the North Sea, I’m very satisfied, as oranges and purples hang over the silhouette of Düne island in the distance.

I made the image above with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime on 24 May 2024 with the following settings: 1/60-sec, f/10, ISO2000, 14mm focal length with the WCL-X70 (21mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-w8z.

Regierungsviertel, Marschallbrücke, Spree, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (9): Government District

Facing west to the Regierungsviertel (Government district) over the Spree river from the bridge Marschallbrücke, the Reichstag is a symbol of the turbulent and tragic past, and the post-reunification buildings that are the Paul-Löbe-Haus and the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders Haus are representative of the present and hope for the future.

I made the image above on 27 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/1000-sec, f/13, ISO1000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vHD.

Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton Stiftung, Museum fuer Fotografie, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (8): Helmut Newton’s Polaroids

Polaroid by Helmut Newton, for American Vogue, Monaco, 1979.

Newton made many small Polaroid images throughout his renowned career as a way to test or experiment with ideas, because all he had at the time were film-cameras. In other words, he could afford to “waste” Polaroids, but not his “work film”. Yes, I know: I made a photograph of a Polaroid made to print and set on display in a museum in Berlin. But there’s something subversive about this digital version existing somewhere in the aether, an image which many will look and pass by, in a similar manner unknowing to them of having seen a physical print somewhere in a museum or gallery.

I made the image above on 25 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/4, ISO3200, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vHs.

Putlitzbruecke, Berlin Deutschland, Germany, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (7): “Asian Food”

Why is an Asian food (“Asiatisches Lebensmittel”) warehouse outlet situated next to a waste- and recycling-facility? Circumstances couldn’t be helped? Microaggressions manifested as a passive-aggressive real-estate interaction?

Am I also complicit in white privilege?

I made the image above on 24 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/1000-sec, f/10, ISO1000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vGg.