The Doubleplanet LOMO Special

my lomo specials, favourites, experiments and weird ones graz, summer 1998 a nice lens reflection (from 46b.jpg) - it's one of my vavourite lomographies. yes i love it. :) (and yes, it's really a snapshot!) graz, feb 1998 sunset in early spring as viewed from my bedroom window. my first composite. the LC-A is not really suitable for this kind of art because of the vignetting and the distorting wide angle. anyway, it is great fun making panoramas (i also have this poster-sized at home). i didn't cut this one very well but the more i make the better i become. view large (48k JPEG) hochschwab, june 1999 too bad one cant't see the photographer's head. it's about the greatest enlargement the scanner makes without interpolation. graz, april 1999 look what nice colors you get when yuo manipulate the film in moderate light conditions! (not for too long!) isn't ot orange? view large (70k JPEG) a friend's party, march 1999 "Your film shows light entry - possible origins: - the original casing was damaged, - the camera was opened with inserted film, - the film was not rewound completely. Sticker can be removed without remainder. Quality control." graz, triangel, april 1999 mirror decoration on the wall. digitally enhanced saturation and removed gray. (bad developement!) please enlarge (73k JPEG) graz, kaiser josef square, may 1999 a small piece of graz by night. exposure time about 3 seconds. no digital enhancement! view large (104k JPEG) graz, spring 1999 you notice something strange in this picture? the figures are sharp (more or less), but the surroundings are ordinary lomo-blurred. this one was actually made with my self-built flash, but the lomo was in "auto" setting. (exposure time about 1 second, then the flash) sort of double-exposure. view large (56k JPEG) view large (74k JPEG) harvestman (ord. opiliones), body. in the center you see its eyes that sit on a small cylindric projection in the front half of its body. opilionids must have good eyes because they are predators like most spiders. view large (68k JPEG) mite (ord. acari). a gamasina on the left (predator) and an oribatida (horn mite, eats dead plants or fungus). examples of about half a millimeter in size animals, living in ordinary soil. well, these were shot through the eyepiece of a microscope. i could not resist to try this when i explored soil animals at university. the hard thing was to guess the sharp distance. (it should be infinity but i was almost certain that the scopes were not calibrated correctly ;) - my guess of about 1 meter turned out to be just right. dammit. i should have taken more of these. hochschwab, june 1999 the amazing sunset light on the rocks made me shoot a few frames for this panorama. just a few seconds and there was shadow again. if you ever come there, that really beautiful place is above the "herzerhütte" on the fölzalm near thörl, part of the hochschwab massive in upper styria/austria. but prepare to climb the mountains for some hours, no way of driving there! :) (view angle: 60 deg.) view large (161k JPEG) hochschwab, june 1999 view on a part of the hochschwab massive, from the entrance of the "ochsensteig". the mount hochschwab itself (2277m) is the one in the far horizon. if you intend to hike it, go there in the summer. we had a blizzard even in june! :) (view angle: 90 deg.) view large (278k JPEG - it's worth it!) hochschwab, june 1999 walk up to the "herzerhütte", with the fölzstein on the left. view large (105k JPEG) graz, february 1999 another "burning sky" and i didn't focus it correctly. what a pity. (view angle: 180 deg.) view large (161k JPEG) laussnitz lake, july 1999 hydrobiology exploration to a mountain lake in northern carinthia (2000m). diameter of the lake is 300m, the rocks are 140m high. (view angle: 90 deg.) view large (164k JPEG) ...and now for something that's often announced with lomography: one sometimes points the camera somewhere and does not even know what's on the photo. ok, on these i could only guess and try to remember when i made them: the psychedelic edge... it's so cool, but really, i don't know what this is.pretty colors huh? my ghosts special: somehow i manage to picture traces of phantoms. :) - actually these are long exposures with people moving by or double-exposures (take a pic, press the rewind release button and wind it up, hopefully without moving the film). self portrait over bathroom, january 1998. my very first roll of film, had to experiment. you see, the film moved a bit and the second shot missed the frame a bit. see the ghost? the world is full of them.

	self portrait over bathroom, january 1998. my very first roll of film, had to experiment. you see, the film moved a bit and the second shot missed the frame a bit.		see the ghost? the world is full of them.