There's nothing like best friends

I was at the cinema with Chris. And my mood changed dramatically. We were laughing and joking in no time. Best friends are the best therapy! We've watched "New York I love you", wonderful movie.

And as a huge THANK YOU for you all:

I took this picture last Wednesday at our photosafiri. It's at the Markkleeberger See. Through the fence you see the wild water rafting center.

Took me exactly one hour to scan the best pictures from four films. But it was worth it. You'll see.

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YOU'VE GOTTA SEE THESE!!!! (picture post)

My first lomographies! The best of two films! Enjoy!

Tuesday evening at Leipzigs trade fair!

What might this be?!

This is what the fisheye does. I thought that I was taking a picture of Leipzigs main station, but you only only see it on the upper end of the picture. Well, my shadow is more beautiful anyway, right? Right!

My class, I messed up todays test. Whoops.

The view from our class room.

This chain goes right around a monument in front of the main station. Strange, huh?

This shadow thing is really funny. See it?!

The column at the side of St. Nikolai in memory of the Monday Demonstrations of 1989 which led to the German Reunion. History folks. We lived right through it.

St. Nikolai from the side.

Leipzig has a lot of passages in the town, this is a column in one of them.

Leuschner Square, you see the tower of the new town hall center right. The keyhole building on the right was a bowling and billiard hall, built in the late 1980ies (yeah, we've got cool buildings in the GDR too). The bowling alleys are underground. Unfortunately nobody operates it anymore. Even though the location is perfect, smack down in the middle of the town. Well, obviously nobody has a vision for it (and the needed money). So sad.

A fountain at Leuschner Square.

My motor bike boots in the streetcar.

Broken window at the stairway in an office building. Only the outer pane is broken. (You have to love double pane windows for that. They also isolate pretty well, when both panes a intact.)

One of the open passages. The Ritter (knights) Passage looking to the main station.

In fact I'm totally crazy about lomography.
Chris said it's like I'm on drugs since Tuesday. I assure you I'm not, I just happen to have a tremendous amount of fun shootin' pics. I bought 6 films on Tuesday noon, the sixth film is in my Lomo yet. I'll get 2 other films back tomorrow and will give one into development. I bought another six films today, so to get through the weekend.

I always liked photography, it just seems that I never had the right kind of camera. Because I never got the pictures I wanted, I was frustrated to no end, so I stopped shooting. I got back a little to it through my digital ixus my blogs. And now I'm back full throttle through my Lomo fisheye2. So I'll definitely buy a second hand LOMO LC-A in March.

I just LOVE IT.

Tomorrow I'll walk into the city and on Sunday I'll go running. The snow is finally thawing.

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PS. I'll put up a new blog for my photography this weekend, so I won't pester you with this topic anymore. Just a few pics now and then.

Photosafiri or the right to eat some chocolate

Hi peeps.

I went on photosafari or photosafiri, as Chris and I call it from now on, with Chris to the Markkleeberger See on late afternoon yesterday.

Remember the Markkleeberger See? Chris and I were running there in December.

You'll find the report back here. Yesterday the lake was frozen over.

So essentially this means I got to walk quite a distance yesterday (at least measuring for the last few weeks). Wohoo, seems like my new hobby is working out alright. And we were out enjoying a beautiful sundown, though it was quite cold. I took a lot of pictures, which I'll post as soon as I get the films developed. Yep, I shot 2 films. 70 pictures?! You might ask, but remember you shoot differently with films than with digitals.

On facebook one of the other lomographers complained that only half of his pictures were good. Hahaha. I remember times when I had films where only one picture was alright. 50% good pictures, wow, sounds like he definitely knows how to take pictures. (Or his expectations on the quality were really low.)

In any case I think that this is the thing for me and gets me out there even more. Good thing for my training.

Do you have any other hobbies except for Triathlon and Running? If so, what do you do?

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How to get rid of some pounds and

save some bucks, when you work or have class downtown!

I just found the most amazing "new" hobby.

Lomography!

Which is essentially cheap analogue photography, with the most amazing pictures. The focus is to make many fun pictures, not perfect pictures. And while it previously annoyed me to not know if my pics are sharp and interesting, the uncertainty is now part of the fun. In fact my pics will be a great deal different from what I'm used too, since I've got the Lomo Fisheye2, distortion is now part of the game. Here are some lomography pics for you, but without the fisheye.

(bricolage by Kevin Dooley, http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/3598131614/)

"Most photography aims at capturing the special moment or place. Lomography aims at the routine moment or place. The use of film and bad cameras ensures that the image maintains its mundane gestalt. Most of our lives we see scenes like the one above through our eyes--that's what lomography is about." (from Kevin Dooley on flickr)

(Gastown Nighttime Lomography by kk+ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/2576408024/)

But how is this going to save some bucks and get me to shed weight?

Well, instead of browsing the shops in my breaks, I will be out and about looking for interesting angles and pics. Which essentially will get my ass moving, without spending a lot of money. Okay, I have to invest some money in the 35mm films and in the development but that is a lot less money than when I buy a new pair of Jeans, design books (I've spend 50 € on them on Monday) or bags, hats, running clothes.... And what's also exciting about it, there is a big world wide community.

This afternoon Chris and me will go on photo safari. Can't wait. And since the sun shines, when we start out we'll have the most amazing light. Did I tell you that I can't WAIT?!!

Sports

Yesterday I went to the nutrition talk of my runners seminar. It was interesting, though I don't agree with everything that Dr. Feil told us. Well in any case I might know now a way to get my connective tissue on a good level and get rid of the cellulite.

And I've got my race shirt. It's in fact my second race shirt ever. It's black and, Tri Diesel will like to read this, from Brooks. Though it's a black mens shirt and that means wide and not very form fitting. Which I consider a good thing at this moment. ;-) And since this shirt is for the Leipzig Marathon, there is a lion on the back (lion is in our coat of arms). I'll take a picture and post it for you.

(Leipzig coat of arms http://www.glausius.de/images/leipzig.gif)

I took some pics yesterday evening, but since I took them with my lomo you'll have to wait a few days for them. At any rate I can't promise that they turned out well, because I experimented with the lighting time. And it's on my first and second film, so I still have to get used to this and they might be nothing but a big mess. (But that's part of the fun!!!)

Mampf Diary

Monday: chocolate protein shake, 1 ciabatta roll with goats cheese, 1 apple, 1 ciabatta roll with cheese, white fish filet and buttered green peas (yummy), tea and water all through the day

Tuesday: chocolate protein shake, 1 ciabatta roll with goats cheese, 1 piece of cake, 1 apple, 1 ciabatta roll with cheese, white fish filet and buttered green peas, 2 servings of chocolate pudding, tea and water all through the day

Today: chocolate protein shake, later: 1 roll with Teewurst, 1 roll with cheese, 1 radish ball, ?

So this is it for now. I'll keep you posted on the sports front.

Hey, Jenna aka reader No 10. Glad you're following me. Welcome.

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