Moin! I am Jonas and I like to take pictures of my surroundings. Whether it’s a special location or a person, when it’s pretty I just can’t resist. With this blog I would like to share some of them with those who are interested in my work.
I started taking pictures as a hobby when I was 12. My first camera was a Medion digital camera from a local discounter. It couldn’t do much, but for this time and especially for my age it was more than enough. I took pictures of my family, vacations and also made some short movies. It got more serious when I finished high school in 2016 and bought my first DSLR from Canon. I wanted to study multimedia production and heard that it couldn’t hurt to already know some things about photography. So I got used to my new camera and started to tinker with its settings. Later at college I primarily used my Canon DSLR to make videos.
This changed when I was introduced to film photography by a good friend of mine in late 2019. We both got our dads old film camera from the early 80s and shot our first rolls of 35mm film. And immediatly I was hooked. Walking through our city always looking for beautiful places to shoot was a new kind of experience for me which I still love today. Not having unlimited “storage” on my camera was a great way of training my skills on recognizing a good frame to shoot. And with every film I shot I got better.
At this point I was already looking for new ways of enhancing my experience. And so I bought a Fuji digital camera in 2020. Sure, now there are no limitaions of storage anymore, but it is a lot cheaper on the long run to not buy a new 10€ film roll every 24-36 pictures (not to mention the development of the film which is another 10€ where I live).
With the pandemic restricting free time activities to a minimum I spent even more time on photography. I now take a hybrid of film and digital photos to have both experiences when I want them. So you will see both analogue and digital photos on this blog. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did when I made them.