In the blink of an eye

My father-in-law passed away So we had a service in church This is my niece lighting a candle Taking pictures in church was not easy.  I knew this day was coming and that I wanted to take photographs, but my D700 would be too noisy and too big. This would be Leica territory, but I sold mine years ago. I was looking for a stealthier camera for some time, so I decided to get the X100. Great camera. With this one, I could take pictures all the time during the service. To paraphrase Chase Jarvis: "The best camera is the one you can actually use". It was a day full of emotion, so I set the camera to Program - Auto ISO - Auto WB, I had no room for technical finesse.

Berlin indeed. The cover picture might give the plot away. This is not about a recent visit, this is about Berlin in 1980. The year before I had dropped out of photography school, I got extremely board with the pure technical approach they adopted there and I took an external photography exam, passed it and could officially call myself a Professional Photographer, certified and all. In those days you needed that certificate to set up any type of commercial photography business. I was getting more and more attracted to photojournalism and by chance I met a girl with somewhat similar ambitions, Jacqueline de Gier  . She was also into fashion design in those days, that's how I met her, I think I was asked to cover a fashion show of her. Anyway, long story short: We where looking for interesting journalistic stories and decided to go to Berlin. By the way, we had no payed jobs in those days, worked on-and-off on little projects and assignments and we were always ve...