ANTIQUE SILVER MARKING

Serenade To A Soul Sister

Blue Note Records 1968

I met him on a bridge over the river Pegnitz, where people gather to enjoy the sun in the meadows alongside the river. I was insecure to ask him, because he went on crutches and was carrying a camping armchair. When I eventually asked, he was very compliant and pleased about the fact that I proposed a serious jazz album. After I photographed him he kept on talking for a felt hour about his life and the auto-biography he was writing at the moment. As far as I remember he was an aristocrat and he told us, that he spend some time with Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in a summer house. He kept on telling a lot of other unbelievable, crazy stuff I can't remember anymore. I wasn't sure if he just invented the whole story but it didn't matter at all because it was a great story that definitely made my day. Perhaps this is the best part about asking strangers for a photograph.

(These pictures are about 5 years old. They are all framed slides, kept in a slide magazine and shown frequently with a projector. Something I deeply regret and won't do ever again. They are so incredibly filthy that it takes me about three hours per slide to do the retouching. So I gave up on these and upload them as dusty as they are. Sorry about that. I'll do the cleaning when MoMA is asking for prints.)

I actually really love this car, it's lines are so clean and sleek, so it was an easy pick as my 365 photo out of all of the other cars that are now flooding your photostream.

Camera: Canon T1i | Canon 18-55mm ?/3.5-5.6 IS
Shot: ?/3.5 | 1/200 ISO 100