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Hello again
« on: December 21, 2020, 08:54:52 PM »
My dear old friends,

it feels like decades since I've been here the last time. In fact it was less than 3 years, which is still a long time. Especially when you become older and 3 years are a big step towards the final countdown.

The ugly pandemic changed everything, life has become poor, especially if you live alone as I do. Time to go back to the days when everything was easy as it always was here. To be honest, the last year or so when I was an active filmwaster, and I was one of you because of the fine community here. Digital was my favorite medium then and still it is, but my main interests changed to being an active hobby musician as a percussionist in a jazz band, experimenting a lot with different instruments and a year ago I started to play recorder after a break of 50 years since my school days. Of course the GAS struck me again  ::) haha. In the very unlikely event that you are interested in my new hobby you may have a look here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIjTDNqimMPa_YnW0rxe9iQ/videos My old flickr is also still alive.

Social life has become a misery, so I decided to reactivate some former internet contacts. And who knows, maybe I will waste another film in the near future. I was very much delighted that the good old weekend threads are still maintained, and I recognized some old companions still being here.

My warmest regards, take care
Reinhold





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Re: Hello again
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2020, 09:29:12 PM »
Hello Reinhold,
good to hear from you again! We miss your insightful comments here. Good to see another multi talented artist here, I think Satish will agree.  ;) I've been into jazz since Miles Davis went jazzrock, and I'm still buying the newest in jazz these days. Don't give up on photography though, let's hope for a return to the freedom we used to have.
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Re: Hello again
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2020, 09:31:38 PM »
I enjoyed the videos Reinhold - thanks for sharing!

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Re: Hello again
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2020, 09:34:53 PM »
Hello old friend,
good to see you.
Maybe we'll see more of you here, would be nice.
I'm still dunking films in coffee...
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Re: Hello again
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2020, 09:59:08 PM »
Hey Reinhold!
Long time no see!

I'm still here too. Keeping the lighthouse going.
I don't know if you were here when Indofunk first registered?
I'm sure you'd have plenty of stuff to chat about as he's a professional musician.

As for days being long and miserable, I definitely get it... here in Canada it's been like that since March.

You should drop for a bit of chitchat more often.
Francois

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Re: Hello again
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2020, 09:24:05 PM »
Welcome back Reinhold, you have been missed.  Life is an adventure, glad to see you are exploring new interests.  There's no one better than you to get Caffenol advice from, I hope you stick around. 

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Re: Hello again
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2020, 08:55:38 PM »
Welcome back Reinhold. Those youtube videos of you playing are hauntingly beautiful well done I really enjoyed them.

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Re: Hello again
« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2020, 11:42:50 PM »
  It's your fault that I'm always out of coffee to drink  ;D . (mind you the negatives are nice !).
Glad to see you back , Peter

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Re: Hello again
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2020, 12:10:51 AM »
Thank you for your kind replies and try to enjoy the holidays. And Peter, please avoid the use of Monsooned Malabar to develop film, but drink it  8)
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Re: Hello again
« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2020, 04:42:39 PM »
Glad to see you back,

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Re: Hello again
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2020, 06:08:46 PM »
Reinhold!! Great to hear from you. I've bee a little scarce around here too. It would be wonderful to see some wasted film from you. Hang in there, it's bound to get better.
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Re: Hello again
« Reply #11 on: December 26, 2020, 07:15:19 AM »
It's great to have you back, Reinhold. :) I thought of you quite a lot because you and the Caffenol Cookbook basically enabled me to use Caffenol almost exclusively over the last few years. :)

Good to see you posting again, James. ;)
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