New York, New York

As many of you know, I spent a few days in New York last week.

It was amazing, exhausting, transforming, interesting, fun, and everything else you can possibly imagine.

I had a great time being in this busy city, seeing some really amazing sights (Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Union Square, MoMa, Highline Park Rockefeller Center) and meeting some amazing people.

I spent one evening with Amine, enjoying an awesome dinner, walking through Union Park and Manhatten.

Amine, Mr. NY, showing me Union Square

Also I met Nick, who showed me the Moma and its exciting Matisse exhibition,  High-line Park, other parts of Manhatten and Brooklyn, as well es Williamsburg -the hippster district ;-)
 Together with Nick and Shannon I had great Indian food, somewhere in Manhattan

Nick in his apparment in Brooklyn

Nick and a friend on Highline Park, Manhatten

Shannon and a piece of me during lunch in an Indian res

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At the Entrance of Moma.

 Also I had the awesome opportunity to stay with Vedas family! They were so great, and gave me much more then I ever hoped for! They even took me to their temple on saturday! It was amaying!

 Inspired by Josh Adams I also took some Videos.
One is of the probably best street artists I have ever seen playing in a Subway station! I was sooo sad when the train entered the station, cause i did not want to leave them...

 

Sooo, it was an amazing time, and i hope to come back to NY soon!
love

My New Camera

OOOOOOOK, i did it...

i was looking for a Fisheye lens for quite a long time now. Sadly nothing in the digital realm came up to my expectations concerning quality, creativity and price.

Canon EF 15mm f/2.8 Fisheye 

First of course i was looking for Lenses for my Canon Eos 350d (= rebel in the US).
The real good lenses are all above 500 USD, like the Canon Fisheye or the Sigma Fisheye for Canon.
After those high end lenses my way led me to the cheaper ones, in the hope of finding something that could fulfill my desires. I landet at Pro-Optic, Samyang, Rokinon, Bower (= all the same) with their 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye. With a cost from about 300 USD this sounded affordable and it seemed to be pretty good. But: manual appreture, manual focus? I don't know if i want to deal with that, after paying 300 bucks...

Since I am not willing to buy a Lens that is worh 3 time as much as my camera i came to those cheap plug-on lenses, which they sell in million times on Amazon. But there are two problems with them:

1. the are cheap plastic bombers that ruin the motor of the lens you put it on and
2. they probably have pretty poor quality while pretending to be good quality.

So... no plastic-plug-on cheapy cheap lens for me...

Lomo Fisheye # 2 Whit Knight edition

Then I found LOMO and its fairly new released Lomographics Fisheye # 2 .

My heart started pumping a little faster. Looks good, this little, withe, plastic knight. It's not promising the best picture quality, BUT: it's promising fun, creativity and a good price. And the bottom line is, that that's what i have been looking for!

The only problem I have: I am a kid of the age of digitalism. I have never, since i am an adult made any picture with a film camera. So i am a little bit nervous if i can deal with not knowing how the picture looks like until the film is full and developed. 

We will see how I can live with that.

Most important for me: I found a market niche that no company is actually serving: affordable, digital cameras that are tailored towards young, creative minds that do not give a shit about the highest quality, or how many lenses you can put on it. 

A digital, point and shoot fun camera that gives you artistic pictures you can work with. Somehow similar to the Lomo - just digital.

Wouldn't that be fun?!?

Until then, I'll try my best with the new Lomo soon to arrive :)