Time Travel / Germany 1983 / Part 4 - Kloster Arnstein

 

 

Already in my first post in this series did I mention Kloster Arnstein, an old monastery situated high up on the mountain above the village Obernhof an der Lahn. There was a narrow road leading up there from Klostermühle down below (where I was staying); and I went all the way up there at least once, to have a look at the church, which was open for visitors. 

I'm starting with a couple of postcards from my album at the top, which have kept the colours better than most of my own photos. (A bit yellowed with age, but not all that much.)

Going through my photo album as well as the slides I recently had digitised, I have come to the conclusion that I must have used two cameras on this journey: One for slides, and one with negative film for prints. But I also had prints made from some of the slides. 

The prints vs the slides have "aged" rather differently. Most prints have turned almost sepia with age, with very little colour left - and difficult to "bring back" in editing. My slides on the other hand have acquired a distinctly blue-ish tint - but a little bit easier to adjust in editing. (All editing done in Picasa3 because that's what I'm used to using...)

 ▲Just to show you what I'm "up against" with editing old printed photos from my album...

 

The road leading UP

Looking DOWN

I probably didn't go up alone, as someone must have taken this photo of me!

 

Some monks/priests up in the gardens at Kloster Arnstein

 

 

  

 

Cropped from the above photo

Among my dominantly "blueish" slides, I was surprised to find some from Kloster Arnstein that had turned all red instead! And no attempts to colour-correct those were successful. I've been scratching my head about those until today - when it occured to me take out the original slides to have a look. Turns out I did not take those myself, but bought them. Probably one was not allowed to take photos inside the church. So those I bought must have been taken with a different kind of film, aging differently... 

 

Here are the bought slides - you can compare them to the postcards at the top: 

 

By the way, exactly the same thing (turning red) also happened to slides I bought at the Basilika in Trier. (I'll show those when we get there.)

There is a Wikipedia article in English about Kloster Arnstein here.