Bikepacking Iceland in October - Reykjavik to Snæfellsnes

by Jan Hettenkofer

published 22/11/2023

Iceland is quiet. If you were to pick any spot at random on this landmass known for its thundering waterfalls, growling volcanic activity and bustling culture, chances are, you would hear nothing at all when you go there. However, this silence foreshadows the might that nature bears on this island. Such was my experience when I pedaled a good 530 km from Reykjavik to Reykholt, from Þingvellir to Hvalfjörður and from Varmaland to Grundarfjörður.

Solving mazes with image processing

by Jan Hettenkofer

published 19/03/2023
last updated 20/03/2023

Given an image of a maze, produce another picture with the solution drawn in. That's the challenge my colleagues Jens and Martin recently put to our development team. My first thought was "there must be a way to solve this without 'parsing' the maze out of the image, right?". Turns out there is a way.

C41 Film Development Cheat Sheet (CineStill CS41)

by Jan Hettenkofer

published 02/07/2022

I don't trust myself not to make a mistake in adjusting C41 development times for developer exhaustion or push while also keeping track of temperature, agitation and all the other times. So I made a neat chart to look those times up and you can have it!

Lasagna

by Jan Hettenkofer

published 25/01/2021

A photographically illustrated recipe.

Impromptu barbecue

by Jan Hettenkofer

published 04/05/2020

This is an impromptu portrait of a barbecue session. No preparation, no lighting, only a hungry bunch of people telling me to hurry up.

Kitchen Alchemy: Butter

by Jan Hettenkofer

published 25/04/2020

Finding the positive in negatives (on film)

by Jan Hettenkofer

published 05/06/2019

[ Old post, left here for posterity ] An excursion into film photography Back in the days before Instagram in particular and digital photography in general people used little bits of plastic coated with some toxic but oh-so-magical concoction to record images. Over the years, that concoction became less toxic and eventually obsolete, but the magic never quite went away.