Summertime

With the snow outside it seems like an appropriate time to look back on Summer with some photos!

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Ok, to be honest – I’ve just been totally neglecting my blog! I have a website though now: www.suzangeldhoff.com
But that’s actually more a place to bring some different accounts together, than a real portfolio. I might make it like that sometime though.

Anywho, let’s move on to some photos! I don’t know where to start and I’m afraid chronology, as usual, is a little bit lost on me, but here we go:

Zeyn carrying flowers to a goodbyeparty on a lovely sunny September day.
(Superia 800 with the Olympus XA)

Random frame from Amsterdam:

Nora’s birthday/ welcome back from Syria fireplace backyard party:

Hmm, that was in August. Yeah, hello anachronism.
The battery of my flash was empty I found out right there and then, so not much photos of the night.

Some photos of the breakfast the next day though.

Everyone looks so sad that the yellow bowl is empty!

Going sailing with my dad:

Not much photos of the actually sailing, this is where we docked.

Dad writing in the logbook.

“Selfportrait with dad on boat.”

The light that evening was so freaking nice and the harbour so desolate,
so I walked around snapping some:

I encountered a woman so I greeted her, she greeted back and said:
“Are you an artist?”
Not very eager to get into a conversation or discussion I answered with a simple “yes”.
She said, seemingly smug that she was right: “I thought so.”
To avoid looking like a creepy voyeur I justified my photographing by saying:
“The light is real nice tonight”
She answered: “It is.”
Then we both went our own way and back on the boat I cracked up over the conversation,
and kept repeating her first question to my dad over the next days. Continuously cracking up over it.
I wonder if it sounds as bizarre when I write it down here, as it did when it happened,
maybe it was just the entire setting that made it so awkward and weird.

Spending some time at the parents’:

Switching to Portra NC 160 here, still with the Olympus XA.

My birth tree in the backyard.

And driving around the countryside for a bit:

Freaky cow staring at me. This is a crop:

Spending some time with friends:

Think this was Myrn’s birthday actually! Must be August then.

Breakfast and morningpaper at JD’s.

Some photos from the Liteside Festival in Amsterdam, where I had to shoot:

Hanging out, waiting for the masses to show up.

And meeting the lovely Kira, on her travels.

On another occassion, having coffee at Myrn’s:

Our balcony ritual :)

And back at the parents again for a bbq:

Superia 400 in the XA.

Sister flipping through some prints I just collected from the lab.

Summerfestival in Nijmegen:

So there we have it, Summer wrapped up! Making this post almost made me forgot there’s snow outside.
Thanks for dropping by!

Parallel lines.

These shots were more or less shot around the same time (May/June) as the last blogpost, but with a different camera: the Olympus XA, loaded with APX400.

I’ve been taking quite some photos of my place recently. Maybe because I’m currently mostly working from there or perhaps because I’m having that itch again: I want to move. I’m not sure whereto or when. But yeah, there’s something going on that makes me want to document my place apparently.

An illustrator on my couch flipping through my photos.

Ladina, my ex-roommate was back in Rotterdam for a couple of days (from Switzerland)

Blurred JD.

Lots of people-on-my-couch frames.

Later that night operation slaugthering-a-mango-in-an-unvonventional-way started.

Succeeded!

Ah going back a little bit more in time – the last day I hung out with Matt & Jeff.

We took the train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam, it was their next stop on the trip and I had some business there as well: Junior Boys concert.

It was a cloudy day and every now and then the sun would break through and I tried to catch that light on Matt, but failed a couple of times.

Which was funny, yeah.

There, that was the frame I was looking for :)

So yeah, I had to say goodbye to the guys later that night unfortunately. It was good times, hope to do it again sometime in Chicago.

A little leap forward in time: birthday picknick in the Vondelpark.

Birthday girl & boy: Zhenia & Stergios.

Lots of food, lots of presents, lots of good times.

The cards spell out procrastination (we’re all struggling with our thesis I guess).

A shot by Zeynep of me in the bokeh trying to explain how to focus with the XA.

It started to rain, so we moved it under the trees (total Hamburg flashback).

Didn’t stop Stergios & Zhenia from playing badminton in the rain though. This was right after an amazing slide and falldown of Zhenia.

That was it for now – till next time!

Continuing…

… where I left off with the last entry: hanging out with Matt & Jeff in Rotterdam. Changed the film to Acros100, in my Minolta XD-7.

Shiny Mamiya.

Back at my place.

I was shooting with both my rangefinder and SLR at the same time, this is just the SLR roll – in the next entry will be the rangefinder roll and the end of their visit (insert single tear).

Hanging out at Myrna’s plcae, first time since she came back from Sheffield. In June I think.

At that point I thought I was shooting colour and JD had such a nicely coloured hoodie, so I couldn’t help myself shooting him a lot.

Turned out I was shooting b/w, obviously. No biggie, would’ve been worse the other way around definitely!

No flash on the XD-7, so no photos of the night.

Next day, mildly hungover, I went sailing with my dad for a couple of days.

I’d like to call this piece of art: “Selfportrait on boat”.

My dad climbing through a small hatch to fetch something from the storagespace.

These still crack me up!

Next morning I woke up from the sound of a shutter. The sound of MY shutter!

And there was my dad standing on deck snapping photos of me sleeping and the only thing I could say was: “Hey, that’s film you know. Don’t waste it!”

(It took 4 frames till it stopped).

Well, that is it for now. Had a couple of rolls lying around for a while, but never came around putting ‘em up here.

Another one is already scanned and ready to be blogged, but I’m trying to refrain from mammoth entries :)

Will post it next week or so.

Hope you enjoyed and hope you’re well. Thanks for dropping by!