On The Road with Thorsten Overgaard · January 2016

By: Thorsten Overgaard

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This is the ongoing journal of my travels, photography, experience with people, places and equipment.

20th Anniversary of my website overgaard.dk

1996 - 2016

Few had a website in 1996, but I did.

I originally started my website in 1996: I was so busy doing Internet and dot.com that I thought I should have a place where friends and family could check in and see how the family and I were doing. I would keep a record of each month with what happened and it was a great way to keep a record and stay in contact with friends and family.

My website 12 years ago when it was mainly about my family and with a section about Leica.

A few years later I started posting pictures and articles made with my Leica cameras as a record of what I had been doing. As the number of visitors and mails I received grew, I started making it more into a communication rather than just my own personal record.

That's how the overgaard.dk became the website you know today. From a few hundred visitors a year in 1996 to more than a million.

Dr. Andreas Kaufmann who had bought the Leica Camera AG factory told me the first time we met, "Whenever I need to know something about Leica, I visit your website!"

One of the key features of the overgaard.dk website is that nothing changes once it’s posted. That is how people who buy a Leica Digilux 2 from 2006 on eBay today still can find a long and detailed account of my adventure with that camera, how to set it up and how to get it to work.

Likewise, anyone new to Leica M9 can find what the famous Apple blogger John Gruber characterized as "the worlds (possibly) longest camera user report" on that camera.

All of the website is free to read and print, made in the spirit of sharing and as a relaxing and fun side project for me to relax with in-between writing my books, teaching workshops, judging photo competitions and photographing around the world.

Bangkok

Bangkok, Thailand, December 24 - January 2, 2016.

I'm flying back to Denmark from Bangkok. I spent Christmas in Bali and Bangkok writing, teaching and judging photo competitions.

Restaurant Peppina, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2015. Leica SL 601 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. 400 ISO at f/2.0, 1/4000 second. © 2015-2016 Thorsten Overgaard.

Dazzling Lifestyle in Bangkok, Thailand. A street restaurant with a poster behind for an upcoming luxory building. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95.

My favorite airline, the Emirates

Bangkok to Copenhagen, January 2, 2016

People often ask how many points I gather from all my travel. The truth is that I fly with so many different airlines I don't really get up there. I know people who fly all the time with American Air or Quantas, but I fly not only one place. Also, I am fundamentally against loyalty programs that award the one who use the money and not the one who pays. But that's another story.

But my favorite airline is Emirates which I use when I go to Asia and would love to use all the time if I could.

On my trip back to Denmark from two months in asia I got a goodwill upgrade on the flight and got to experience the brand new Airbus A380 that the staff was just as exited and curoius about as we were.

Hanging out in the Airbus A380 lounge: We got to meet Julia Karo from Poland who now lives in Dubai and have been with the Emirates for eight years and also sings gospel. The A380 double decker plane was all new to her and the other staff who were just as exited as us. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95.

The Airbus A380 lounge on the Emirates flight from Dubai to Copenhagen. Leica M 240 with Leica 28mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4.

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Return to the Kingdom - Winter is Coming

Aarhus, Denmark, January 3 - 7, 2016.

I return home to Denmark to change suitcase. That's about it.

Thorsten von Overgaard arrived at Copenhagen Airport in January 2, 2016.

A gift from Hong Kong

Aarhus, Denmark, January 5, 2016.

A year ago Lawrence Wong did my workshop in Hong Kong and made a great photograph of my and my daughter Robin Isabella walking in the late afternoon.

This year when I returned to Hong Kong in November he came by with this special print he had gotten made for me. This is how it looks before it goes to framing.

It made it safely all the way to Denmark, through some 8 other countries in the luggage. Thank you Lawrence for taking the photograph, and for sharing it!

A year ago Lawrence Wong did my workshop in Hong Kong and made a great photograph of my and my daughter Robin Isabella walking in the late afternoon.

I'm working on the Leica SL articles.

A gift from Italy

Aarhus, Denmark, January 6, 2016.

I like when people share their work through pritns, social media, books, exhibitions and more. I got this nice photo book by mail today from Gianluca Polazzo who's a documentary photographer based in Vicenza, Italy.

Thank you, Gianluca!

Photography book made with Leica by Gianluca Polazzo

London in the Rain (and snow)

London, January 8 - 11, 2016

The Overgaard Workshop London traditionally is a crazy groiup of people. It must be the time of the year. We always have fun and the weather is always great, despite it's the first days of the new year.

London in the rain. We didn't have snow and it actually wasn't very cold. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Summicron-M f/2.0.

Ryan Jackson from Texas in the London Workshop. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95.

Ian Traquair out and about in the London Workshop.

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The Pollock's Toy Museum in London. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Summicron-M f/2.0 II.

Robin and I left via Hamburg Airport for New York an early morning. Way too early!

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The City that Never Sleeps

New York, USA, January 16 - 23, 2016

It feels like homecoming. New York is always fun.

Robin and I arrived on New York two days earlier than originally planned to get some father-daughter time befroe Joy arrived. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Summicron-M f/2.0 II.

A great portrait of Robin Isabella in New York by our friend Mark Tenally

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The "Snowzilla" New York Blizzard 2016

New York, January 22-24, 2016

With great anticipation I heard it would snow in New York. In the evening of January 22 it started slowly and by Saturday the 23th about one feet of snow had fallen. I was out in the night and the next days. Not for that long, but long enough to get some of the atmosphere. With the usual drama and a taste for making even small events into historic "breaking news" the snowstorm was named "Snowzilla" and the #Blizzard2016.

I was also in New York during the Blizzard 2011 which I wrote about here.

The New York 2016 Blizzard. I went out at 03 AM in the morning as it had started snowing. Here it is by Madison Square Park. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

6th Avenue 04 AM in New York during the 2016 Blizzard. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

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6th Avenue with the MetLife building in the background and the last drunk people trying to get home. 04 AM in New York during the 2016 Blizzard. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

A man crosses 32th Street on Saturday January 23, 2016. Sunglasses too. Leica SL with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

A man dressed in beard crosses 5th Avenue on Saturday January 23, 2016. Sunglasses too. Leica SL with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

Mother and son exploring a New York covered in show after the "Snowzilla" Leica SL with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

A couple having fun in the snow on 5th Avenue. Leica SL with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0.© 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

After a day where the whole city, the trains and stores closed down or never opened, you had to make your plans carefully to get to a place that was open, not to mention the exit strategy: How to get home. Leica SL with Leica 90mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

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The Day After the 2016 Blizzard: New Yorkers are out and about seizing the result of a days snowfall from "Snowzilla". The weather forecast says sunshine and warmer weather the next days. Leica SL with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © 2016 Thorsten von Overgaard.

I wrote an article on photographing in snow, as well as taking the cameras out in rain and snow.

Los Angeles

Hollywood, January 25 - 30, 2016

We check into our French chateau in Hollywood for some weeks of writing holiday, photographing, etc.. And the Grammys, naturally (which is on February 15, 2016).

Only in Hollywood I think, you will see something like this. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0.

It was raining in LA on January 30 and 31. I was out and got really wet taking photos, and I met very few lost angels who was just as enthusastic about it as I was. Leica M 240 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0.

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