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Channelling @mattisunderhill vibes (JK, he's way better than me 🤐). Here're some fun photos from Marburg's medieval old town 🏰. I am *so* glad the weather is slowly starting to improve, and I can get more than 2 hours of sunlight each day! There's finally enough time to take my drone out 🚁. 🏰 🏰 🏰 🏰 🏰 #Drone #DJI #DJIMavicMini #DronePhotography #Town #Stadt #Altstadt #Oberstadt #OldTown #castle #schloss #medieval #Hessen #Germany #Deutschland #Dorf #Edited #YesFilter #HDR #Winter #Cloudy #PhDLife #Marburg #Trees #Weekend #Wochenende (hier: Historische Altstadt Marburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpgFKJXIZOk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Szenen aus meinem Alltag in Marburg! Ich bin sicher dass anderer Bürger des Marburg schon wo ich war kennen. My aunt gave me her super old, super basic point and shoot film camera from the 90's. It's so simple, you can't adjust your exposure, framing, or even focus! In some ways, working around it's simplicity was a really fun and creative process, although any photos I took at night (most of them) were simply scheiße. These photos have that fun lo-fi look that a lot of people like with film these days. They're just easy-going, casual photos I took as I went about life 😌. 🏙️ 🏙️ 🏙️ 🏙️ 🏙️ #KodakGold200 #Kodak #Streets #Straßen #Town #urbanphotography #Stadt #Goko #GokoUF #FilmIsNotDead #PointAndShoot #FilmPhotography #Everyday #Alltag #Germany #February #Sunset #Sonnenuntergang #Sunrise #Sonnenaufgang #Hügel #Yellow #Gelbe #Hessen #Traffic #Verkehr #CarsOnFilm #Autobahn #Film #Grain (hier: Marburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGcqkZosHH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Mukbang! Eating my favourite food (wet) after my evening walkies 😋. 🥘 🥘 🥘 🥘 🥘 #Imadog #Cavachon #dogsofinstagram #pet #feedmeandtellmeimpretty #foodporn #dog #doglife #evening #walkies #woofwoofwoof #food #dinner #wetfood #mukbang #cute #yesfilter #clarendon #selfie #selfportrait (hier: Bushey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnv1JCdIfcQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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2 weeks later feels like the perfect time to post my NYE photos! It was honestly *so* nice not being the only person up all night 😆. Anyway, away from the wild parties and all-night raves, here're some subdued, solitary scenes of people coming and going into the new year, as well as the infrastructure facilitating their journey. 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 #London #2023 #NYE #NewYearsEve #Sylvester #GutenRutsch #HouseParty #Party #FilmIsNotDead #35mm #NikonL35twaf #VintageCamera #retro #blackandwhitephotography #Schwarzweiss #flashphotography #city #urban #streetphotography #strassenfotografie #trains #züge #Night #Nacht #Candid #architecture #Gebäude #ilfordxp2 #edited #madeinaffinity (hier: London, Unιted Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnhlMdvIDJd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The first couple of rolls were rough, but I'm definitely much better at using my film camera now 📷! I've been meaning to edit these photos since August, but better late than never. 🏢 Anyway, one of the cool things about black and white photography is that I can get away with much more radical edits than with colour. The colour complicates things, and it's very easy to make something look unnatural. In black and white, I can really highlight all of these architectural details without errant colours getting in the way. It makes each picture element appear as if on the same plane. 🏢 But yeah, I'm still happy to get feedback and stuff! Do you like this exploration into monochrome, or is it too bland in our oversaturated feeds 🎃? 🏢 🏢 🏢 🏢 🏢 #gebäude #sommer #eiswagen #England #vereinigteskönigreich #schwarzweissfotografie #film #großstadt #großstadtliebe #London #Hauptstadt #bäume #city #urban #coaldropsyard #nikon #NikonFTn #icecreamvan #summer #holiday #edited #architecture #buildings #modern #oldandnew #contrast #cityscape #vintage #concrete #glass (hier: Coal Drops Yard) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj3BErSjnDk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Oh noooooo, it's becoming a series 🌳🌳🌳 Anyway, I was just wondering around Marburg one autumnal evening and I saw this building on the river, nestled amongst the trees. I was really struck by the way it was just sticking out so aggressively from the treeline, silhouetted and contrasted by the hillside forest behind. 🍂 I think I might also need to calibrate my laptop's display 🤔... When I edited this, it looked relatively greenish-blue. But when I look at it on almost any other screen, the image looks really warm (but hopefully still nice 😅). How does it look on your phone? 🌳 🌳 🗄️ 🌳 🌳 #gebäude #building #officeblock #arbeitsbüro #office #forest #town #stadt #neustadt #Autumn #Herbst #Deutschland #Germany #River #pixel6 #shotonpixel #silhouette #landscape #edited #yesfilter #forest #wald #bäume #contrast #urbanism #architecture #affinityphoto #nature (hier: Marburg Innenstadt) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjvAUOWDcvp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Can you believe I never even had to leave my flat to take these photos? 🏕️ The leaves will fall from the trees in the next few weeks, and a few of them are even starting to turn brilliant shades of red and orange 🍂. I was lucky to be able to capture such thick fog in the hillside whilst the trees still have so much life in them. 🌳 I've been really thinking about upgrading to one of Nikon's new mirrorless cameras lately. I've barely been using my DSLR this past year, TBH. I just felt like I outgrew it, and I could handle a camera with more modern and advanced features. Then again, I think part of the problem is that I never really had the money to buy decent lenses for it. I tried taking these photos on my actual telephoto zoom lens, and they were incredibly soft and grainy. I ended up switching to my macro lens to take these, and the quality was just so much better. Spending the last 6 months as a film photographer has definitely made me more skilled, even with digital 🎞️! 🏔️ 🏔️ 🏔️ 🏔️ 🏔️ #Forest #Trees #fog #cloudy #hillside #morning #NikonD3400 #edited #DontAskMeHowLongISpentEditingThese #Germany #Countryside #smalltown #Wald #Kleinstadt #Dorf #autumn #longpost #cold #MadeInAffinity #Deutschland #Marburg #gebäude #chimney #Roshhashana #ImmigrantLife #PhDLife #Dawn #Sonnenaufgang 🌄 (hier: Marburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci-kBc5orsP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🇩🇪 Ein Feed Beitrag zu feiert mein erstes Mal besuchen Berlin. Die große Hauptstadt von dem Land ich leben am. Ich hatte eine tolle Zeit da, sondern das Wochenende war fertig viel zu schnell, natürlich. Ich habe gepostet eine Mischung aus Subjekten mit diesen Bilder. Vielen Berliners und Gebäude, alle von meiner alten Filmkamera. Ich war machen diesen Fotos vor ich hatten doch gesehen mein erster Roll von Wien... Also ich hatte keine Ahnung wenn diese Kamera noch arbeitet! Weniger gut, es war auch vor ich kennen dass ich muss machen der Belichtungszeit kurzem. Sondern, alles wird gut. Ich habe endlich fixieren alle diese Fotos für du zu sehen. Ich liebe der geschichtlich blick diese habe. Viel Spaß! 🇬🇧 That German caption took me so long to write and it's probably not even right, lol. Oh well, that's A1 German for ya' 😛. Between moving houses, PhD life (and lack thereof), and my parents' disastrous visit, I never actually got around to sharing any of my film photos of Berlin, let alone editing them! Back when I was taking these, I hadn't yet seen the results from my first roll shot in Vienna, so I made a lot of the same mistakes there and here 😅. Still, it's nothing careful cropping and editing won't fix! I think (hope) I captured a novel and interesting side of Berlin apart from the standard parties and clubs. Or maybe not 🤪. You be the judge 🧑🏻‍⚖️! LMK what you think~ 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 🇩🇪 #Berlin #Berliners #Architecture #Buildings #Gebäude #Deutsch #Deutschland #Germany #InternationalStudent #Film #Edited #YesFilter #blackandwhite #Schwarzweiss #Urban #City #Candid #Portrait #Streetphotography #Citybreak #Urlaub #Holiday #NikonFTn #TBT #Throwback (hier: Berlin – the place to be) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chs7wYvIGJw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It's a lovely evening today 🐕 I saw lots of fur-ends! 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 #dog #imadog #pet #cavachon #secretlifeofpets #dogsofinstagram #parklife #grass #field #fieldsofwheat #nature #woofwoofwoof #feedmeandtellmeimpretty #evening #summer #sunset #portrait #walkies #park #pixel6pro #specialboy #cutie #goldenoldie (hier: Attenborough's Fields) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChdOrsqr2cq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Weekend road trip recap! Last weekend I went on my first road trip down to the south coast! I spent Saturday driving and hiking the Seven Sisters cliffs with @haiphong08 and her flatmate! The trip was this 🤏🏻 close to not happening, but we made it work, LOL. Logistics are a nightmare. Still, the amazing views more than made up for it! And the coastal breeze and escape from the city were the perfect tonic to the heatwave 🌅. I still sweated like a pig, tho (picture 2 to see me all hot and bothered 🥵). That evening, I drove on to my aunt's house in Hastings (like Brighton, but slept on) and on Sunday, we explored other cute little towns and beaches on the south coast! Coming from London, it's almost like the place that time forgot, but in all the best ways, haha. I even went into a fully functioning inn that has been operating since the 1300s! I'm trying out a little bit of a new workflow with these photos. I left my DSLR in Deutschland to focus on film photography for the summer... But film is expensive 😅! So I also shot all of these on my phone, which has basically taken over from my DSLR anyway, TBH. I also edited all of them in the super basic Google Photos app because I didn't want the edits to be too technical or extreme! I think it worked out pretty well 😁. I certainly wouldn't be posting this many photos just 3 days later if I gave them a full workup on my desktop 😅. All the views are so beautiful, and capture a slice of coastal life amid this ephemeral heatwave ☀️. The golden grass compliments the crystal blue skies so well, but I couldn't help but feel a bit sad about walking through such a desiccated, dying landscape. Our environment is hurting 🏖️ 🏖️ 🏖️ 🏖️ 🏖️ #Pixel6Pro #ShotOnPixel #CoastalViews #YesFilter #Edited #GooglePhotos #Sussex #EastSussex #Beach #RoadTrip #Holiday #Summer #Heatwave #SliceOfLife #Seagulls #Weekend #Adventure #BlueSky #BlauerHimmel #Lighthouse #Cliffs #Hike #NaturalEngland #Historic #Plandid #Sea #Rye #EnglishCountryside #SevenSisters #EnvironmentalConcerns (hier: Seven Sisters Cliffs) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChXpMa0Nz1M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I love my evening walks and I don't say it enough 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 🌾 #imadog #dog #dogsofinstagram #cavachon #cavachonsofinstagram #pet #petlife #park #greenery #nature #field #fieldsofwheat #tree #sunset #goldenhour #countryside #yesfilter #edited #summer #woofwoofwoof #feedmeandtellmeimpretty #itme #selfie #pixel6pro #ball #walkies (hier: Attenborough's Fields) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgx5blsoTrB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Next stop, Wimbledon 🎾😎. 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 #dog #imadog #dogsofinstagram #DogWithABall #cavachon #pet #petlife #adorable #cute #tennis #fluffy #woolly #tennis #tennisball #wimbledon #tennispro #portrait #video #instagood #grass #summer #pixel6pro #yesfilter #edited #selfie #feedmeandtellmeimpretty #woofwoofwoof #latepost #pricklybush #tongue #sunsouttonguesout (hier: Bushey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgp02duMCRK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Next stop, Wimbledon 🎾😎. 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕 #dog #imadog #dogsofinstagram #DogWithABall #cavachon #pet #petlife #adorable #cute #tennis #cutie #fluffy #woolly #tennis #tennisball #wimbledon #tennispro #portrait #video #instagood #grass #summer #pixel6pro #yesfilter #edited #selfie #feedmeandtellmeimpretty #woofwoofwoof #pricklybush #tongue #sunsouttonguesout (hier: Bushey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgp0P1HMRlo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I'm turning my account into a B&W account 😛🎞️. This is basically a follow on to my last post for the photos which look better in portrait! 🎞️ 🎞️ 🎞️ 🎞️ 🎞️ #Vienna #Wien #Austria #Österreich #schön #beautiful #vintage #filmisnotdead #film #35mmfilm #NikonFTN #retro #streets #urban #blackandwhite #edited #yesfilter #museumsquartier #horseandcarriage #tourist #travel #fieldwork #cityscape #architecture #classical #signs #spring #toomanytags #affinityphoto #madeinaffinity (hier: Wien, Österreich) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgM2p2Wj4mQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I'm *finally* posting these amazing film photos I took in Vienna last April! It was such a joy shooting on the 50 year old Nikon SLR that I inherited from my grandpa! Everything about switching to film felt so refreshing. It's little things, like the tactility of winding film, or pressing the shutter button and feeling the labyrinthine series of springs and gears that all go into taking one photo. Experimenting with black and white, and having to really consider what subjects are worthy of a space on the roll is really forcing me to look at the world in a different way yet again. Anyway, I know these photos aren't technically perfect. This is the first roll of film I've got back, so now I can better understand the characteristics of the lenses, the light metering, focusing, etc. etc. But I really don't think that's the point this time. These photos, at least to me, feel like a completely new way of looking at the world which I could only have taken with this camera 📷. Pic 1: an @mjam_at rider about to cross. Pic 2: contrasting classical architecture details. Pic 3: a small döner shop in the middle of a tram platform. I really love how the interior lighting delicately silhouettes the customers outside. Pic 4: classic architecture in the Altstadt Pic 5: Zum Goldenenwurst 🌭. IDK what's happening here, but the customers and cooks look very adversarial with that pointing. Pic 6: the very decrepit university car parked in this very stylish 1960's car park 🚘⛽⛽ Pic 7: a car, coach, and tram on the street. I like how it captures the movement of the city 🚋. #city #film #filmisnotdead #35mmfilm #NikonFTN2 #Nikon #Vintage #blackandwhite #vienna #wien #österreich #austria #fieldwork #streetphotography #edited #yesfilter #fastfood #travel #tbt #spring #schönstadt #urbanjungle #urbanart #architecture #hustle #kiosk #people #publictransport #tram #classic (hier: Wien, Österreich) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgBaNI5jTBy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Wehrda appreciation post! I don't live in Wehrda anymore, which is wise for anyone that doesn't own a car/bike, but I still get nostalgic for how green and pleasant it was 🌳 The street I used to live on is right below the tree line in the first photo, although you can't see my actual WG 🏡. The other pictures are the sunrise and sunset views from our garden in Wehrda 🌅🌄. 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 #Wehrda #Sunrise #Sunset #sonnenuntergang #sonnenaufgang #Marburg #Germany #Germanlife #dorfleben #dorfkind #dorf #village #Hesse #Hessen #yesfilter #edited #madeinaffinity #hillside #forest #wald #wohnungsgemeinschaft #green #pleasant #Nikond3400 #pixel6pro #tamron18200 (hier: Wehrda, Hessen, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyooxFDzhV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Giving you the eyes 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 #imadog #eyes #eye #puppydogeyes #freshhaircut #cavachon #dog #pet #lifeofpets #petlife #fluffy #woolly #woofwoofwoof #feedmeandtellmeimpretty #playtime #nighttime #dark #garden #dogsofinstagram #cavachonsofinstagram (at Bushey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca_0SoZDLuH/?utm_medium=tumblr