Shot an entire roll of Rollei 80s inside the Sinsheim Museum, no flash of course. Most of the photographs came out all right, but at some point I switched to automatic, on my Nikon FM3A. No idea why I did that, for the auto mode always gave me nasty overexposures when left to it own devices indoors, with so little light as inside this museum. I guess I was all too taken with the mighty planes, the fierce tanks, the uniforms and whatnot, and didn’t noticed the viewfinder info. Anyways, re this photo, I wanted to bin it, but somehow I became attracted to it.
It’s like this: we’ll never be able to put a face to most of the fallen soldiers, wherever and whenever they fell. This photograph goes to show this truth. He’s just a soldier. Not real, but so’s the statue of the Unknown Soldier. Anyways, this is why I kept this photo and I am posting it here, hoping this all makes sense.
