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Camera: Mamiya Universal
Lens: Mamiya Sekor 127mm Model P
Film back: Mamiya medium format 6x9.
Film: Cinestill 800 120 medium format
Developing: Tetenal C41 in a Patterson developing tank.
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Käthe Wohlfahrt, Bruges — one of the Belgian outposts of the renowned German Christmas boutique founded in Rothenburg ob der Tauber in the 1960s. The company began as a small family business selling handmade wooden ornaments and music boxes and grew into Europe’s most famous purveyor of traditional German Christmas folklore: nutcrackers, Räuchermännchen (incense smokers), Schwibbögen (arched candle pyramids), and carved miniatures from the Erzgebirge. Their shops—always lavishly decorated—function as year-round Christmas museums, preserving and exporting a distinctly Franconian/Thuringian craft tradition revived after World War II.
German Christmas craft culture itself draws on several intertwined historical strands: medieval guild carving in Saxony; 17th-century mining-town folk art in the Ore Mountains (where miners carved wooden figures during the long dark winters); the 19th-century Biedermeier domestic ideal that elevated the decorated Christmas tree; and the early-20th-century rediscovery of regional handcrafts during the Heimatkunst movement. Käthe Wohlfahrt’s shops present these traditions in curated, idealized form—part nostalgia, part preservation, part commercial mythology—offering a pan-German Christmas aesthetic that feels timeless even though it was consolidated only in the mid-20th century.
On the orange bows
The orange bows on the ornaments in the right-hand window are not part of traditional German Christmas iconography. In this context they likely signal Dutch tourist appeal, since Bruges attracts large numbers of Dutch visitors and orange is the Netherlands’ national color (House of Orange-Nassau). Käthe Wohlfahrt’s satellite shops often tailor small portions of their display to local or regional tastes, and the orange details appear to be a commercial nod to Dutch shoppers—an accent of cheerful, non-liturgical color that doesn’t conflict with the overall Christmas palette. They do not signify a liturgical season, political movement, or historical Flemish tradition.
Rossbeigh Strand, Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry. This is a re-worked version of an image I had posted before.
Seen better days.
A dilapidated building in downtown Rangoon/Yangon just off Strand Road near the waterfront.
Many Thanks To Glen F For The Classic On The Left www.oldcolourimages.com/ The £22m, Three-Year Redevelopment Led By Westminster City Council, Has Created A Green And Tranquil Space Its All Pedestrianised Now...St Mary Le Strand Was Consecrated In 1773....King's Building On The Right Dates From 1831.....