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Cold Hands: The Lost Gloves of Helsinki

Posted on June 8, 2023 by how_sven / 1 Comment

I’ve lived in Istanbul for some years now, and while I’ve come to realize nothing about this city is normal, I’ve gotten used to its madness. According to censu...

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Film Photography Adventures in Turkey: Bike Camping in Trakya part III

Posted on October 23, 2020 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Day Three At dawn as I watched the sky slowly lighten and the sun rise over the fields I resigned myself to starting another day. I had heard from Lisa, who had...

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Film Photography Adventures in Turkey: Bike Camping in Trakya part II

Posted on October 17, 2020 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Day Two I awoke groggily at dawn and watched the sunrise from my tent. I consulted my hand-drawn map to confirm that I needed to just follow the coastal road I&...

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Film Photography Adventures in Turkey: Bike Camping in Trakya (Thrace) Part I

Posted on October 8, 2020 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Introduction Back in July I went for a long bike ride and camping adventure. During the lockdown days it was nice to think about going away somewhere by myself ...

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Summer 2019 and Adventures with a new camera: the Canon EF

Posted on October 14, 2019 by how_sven / 0 Comment

When I wrote my previous reflection about a year with the Canon AE-1, I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of an upgrade. One side-effect of picking up a new hobb...

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Learning Film Photography: A Year with the Canon AE-1

Posted on June 13, 2019 by how_sven / 0 Comment

A year ago in July when I was back in the states, I went in to a camera shop and asked the shopkeeper for a manual camera with no automatic settings. He had two...

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Dispatches from Istanbul: An Escape from the City

Posted on February 21, 2019 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I recently bought an analogue camera and have been learning (slowly) to take photos. This marks my first entry in what I hope will be a continuing combination o...

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Synchronous Summers: Photos and Stories

Posted on August 24, 2018 by how_sven / 0 Comment

We’d just driven down scenic M-22 after camping at the Betsie River campground outside of Frankfort, Michigan. We had spent a few days in Grand Rapids before we...

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Süngerci Deniz: 9. 10. ve 11. Bölümler

Posted on January 2, 2018 by how_sven / 0 Comment

IX Birkaç gün sonra Kardelen arka sokaklara, Deniz’i bulmak için gitti. Deniz çok endişeliydi. “İyiyim, vallahi, ama sormak istedim, pembe sünger paket alabilir...

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Süngerci Deniz: 7. ve 8. Bölüm

Posted on December 29, 2017 by how_sven / 0 Comment

  VII Bir telaşla uyandı. Yüzünü, kollarını, vücudunu kontrol etti, derin bir nefes aldı. Sadece bir rüyaydı. İlyas’a döndü, uyandırmaya çalıştı. Ama uyanm...

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