It’s Christmas again, another year has passed, the world continues to turn around the sun with his perennial change but my traditional Christmas photograph is a fixed point!
This year my message is very simple: don’t forget the real meaning of Christmas and don’t be afraid to celebrate it properly. Most of all, don’t be afraid to make the right moral choices all year.
Decorations, lunches, dinners, gift and so on are meant to be a celebration for the essence of Christmas but if you forget it, all the lights, food and money will never bring the real joy in your hart.
I wish you all a blessed Christmas full of joy and goodness.
For the technically curious followers this year imaged required:
1 Hi-Fi stereo system
1 Bach’s Christmas Oratorio CD
1 Glass of Lagavulin Scotch while listening
1 8×10 Cambo Legend viewcamera with a Schneider 300mm
1 4×5 Cambo MAsterPlus viewcamera with a Schneider 150mm
1 Hasselblad 503 cx with 80mm and extension tubes.
1 Pentax Mz-s with the 100mm macro
1 6×7 adapter for the 4×5 camera
1 Pentax K1 mkII with a Takumar 55mm 1.8 for the final image
5 film formats Ilford FP4
1l ID-11 developer
200cc Ilford Hypam
5 developing session in the darkroom
2 Broncolor Grafit A generators
3 Broncolor Pulso flah heads
~10 playing of a Christmas Jazz CD while creating the photograph