Conditioned Krk – My SoFoBoMo 2011 Book

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Krk, Croatia

Just in time I managed to finish and upload my SoFoBoMo 2011 photobook, aptly titled Conditioned Krk for the countless air condition units it features. Those creepers have been subjects of a number of pictures I posted from Krk, and this year I’ve used the opportunity of SoFoBoMo’s fuzzy month and my summer holidays to build a book of these visual contaminants.

Oh well, I shouldn’t complain that much, living in a moderate climate most of times. Maybe some people of Krk take my visual notes and draw their own conclusion about how to devise their environment.

My special thanks go to Eric Jeschke for providing the LaTex sources of his own 2009 photo book under a Gnu Public License, which allowed me to achieve a compact web pdf in a very fast way, and at the same time creating a blurbable high-res pdf as well.

Update: The pdf is now available from the books section of this website as well.

Tags:a.c., air condition, pollution
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Unused Door

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Punat, Krk

Tags:decay, shadow, tree
Posted in Croatia, Doors and Windows, Krk | 4 Comments »

Loriot Tot – Loriot Dead

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

Krk, Croatia

This week, one of Germany’s greatest humorists has died. The man on the beach is reading the most disreputable German boulevard newspaper ‘Bild’ (my keyboard cringed when I typed the word ‘newspaper’ in this connotation), which is famous for its large-letter black and red titlepage, with the sad news shouted at the reader.

Tags:beach, newspaper, sea
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Ozjusko

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Krk, Croatia

Tags:Alcohol, Beer
Posted in Croatia, Krk, street | 4 Comments »

House And Boat

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Krk, Croatia

For an old seafarer tribe as the people from the island of Krk, the boat certainly was as dear as cars are now. So it’s not astonishing to see normal boats, not the leasure type, next to many houses.

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Searching The Fish

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Krk, Croatia

Tags:boats, boys, harbour
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Sky Blue

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Krk, Croatia

Tags:antenna, blue, chimney, roof, sky
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Omišalj Street Light

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Omišalj, Krk

I am more than happy that Police Chief Jim McDonnell (via conscientious) is not on duty in Omišalj. I am certainly not sure about the artistic value of the image above, but getting detained for it certainly would be a draconic measure. But with long hair and moustache, I might well qualify for a potential terrorist.

Oh America, how have you come down! Once it was an earmark of dictatoric regimes to go after people photographing clearly defined subjects of assumed strategic value – Yugoslavia, from which my current residence in Croatia stems off, was known for such rules. But making an assumed non-artistic value the criterion deciding over the harassment of a photographer is certainly a new quality in the erosion of those very Civil Rights for which the United States of America were rightly admired.

Tags:lantern, wall, wires
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Kamplin Tourists

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Krk, Croatia

The Kamplin is the main place next to the Bishop’s church in the town of Krk, and in the summer evenings visited by big numbers of tourists. In the mornings usually it’s quiet (and clean), good to visit when the shadows are still long.

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The Corsairs Are Still Asleep

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Krk, Krk

Having fallen in love with the square format – the LX3 helped a lot as it offers it as a native format – I continue using it under much more difficult circumstances with the DSLR. There are two marks for the square in the viewfinder, visible but not really helpful when it comes to aligning lines with the frame borders or corners. Currently I lean towards slack framing, offering enough leeway to position a rectangular frame during postprocessing, but this is
a not really satisfying as it is quite imprecise. And I loose a bit the feeling for the image when not beeing able to use the SLR viewfinder as the tool it was meant for. Given that my DSLR in many other aspects allows to achieve fine results, an adjustable and configurable viewfinder (together with a much better rendering of shallow DoF) is at the top of an imaginary wish list.

Tags:morning, restaurant
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Krk again

Saturday, August 20th, 2011

Krk, Croatia

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Railroad Lanterns

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Freilassing, Bavaria

Tags:blue, evening sky, lantern, pole
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Tenement Block And Moon

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Freilassing, Bavaria

Pure Germany, for Martina. As sober as it probably can get, no frills, yet (for me) of a certain innate beauty I cannot name.

Tags:evening, facade, house, moon, sky, windows
Posted in LX3, urban | 8 Comments »

Two Windows

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Freilassing, Bavaria

Freilassing is a small town on the German-Austrian border, having grown fast between the World Wars as a significant crossing of railway lines along and cross the border. I sometimes go there for shopping, but more often than not my stay is compulsory due to some hickups in the railway system (percentually small, but often annoying none the less). One hour delay gives a good timeframe to explore at least the surroundings of the station. When the results are good, the annoyance subsides somewhat…

Tags:flower, pot, reflection, wall, window
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Fredys Kampfsportshule – Fredy’s Martial Art Shool

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Freilassing, Bavaria

Update: Modified the spelling of the title to better reflect the German (Un-)orthography. Don’t know why I missed this when writing the post.

Tags:Advertisement, billboard, street, window
Posted in LX3, urban | 7 Comments »

Just Jesus

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

Freilassing, Bavaria

I scrutinized the car for statements that would explain that medieval style icon in the window but found nothing exept a fragmentary hint to a Mercedes-Benz website. Well, not so rarely cars make up as drop-in replacements for religion, but here this was at least not the obvious case.

Tags:building, car, sky, wall, window
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Gott Kennen – Knowing God

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Munich, Bavaria

This truck delivered plaster just opposite my office window. The inscription struck me as somewhat dissonant, and after some consideration I discovered why: .com is for commercial enterprises. “Gott kennen”, knowing God is, well, not really commercial, at least not here in Europe. I’d even dare to say that there is a certain antagonism, just thinking of the traders in the temple.

But then, if they signed not to vote in favour of any tax increase, maybe they think they have made a good deal with God?

Tags:commercial faith, god, gop, tea party
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Stairs And Stripes

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Freilassing, Bavaria

For a given reason it might have been appropriate to photograph those pinstriped pants and leather shoes *descending* the stairs. Taking into account that I took this image several weeks back, I can only state that my augural capacities are not really sufficient.

Tags:pants, shoes, stairs, stripes
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Gas Station, Closed

Monday, August 8th, 2011

Freilassing, Bavaria

Different tax rates in Germany and Austria have lead to the closing down of most gas stations in the border towns. And when there is not much movement in the real estate sector, even central parcels remain unused.

Tags:car, decay, paint, rain
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Hommage To Minor White

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

Freilassing, Bavaria

Back in 2009 I have bought a copy of “Eye, Mind, Spirit – The Enduring Legacy Of Minor White”, out of a gut reaction when having read Geoff Wittig’s review in the “Online Photographer”. That Amazon had shipped it in insufficient packaging, damaging the corners, is more than an annoyance when dealing with a limited edition of only 1500, but I saw no sense in sending it back and just getting the money refunded. Anyhow, this book features White’s image “Portland, Maine, 1966″, a tight framing of a truck side and wheel with salt forming patterns on the tyre and the paint. This image had anchored itself in the back of my mind and got immediately remembered when I saw that side of the lorry in the image above. Strange enough, I could not find any reproduction of that image on the web.

On a side note: I should stop complaining about stopovers enforced by train delays. This image, again, found me during such a stay in a place where I had not chosen to be, and certainly not at that time. Maybe I should work back through all my posts and add a special tag “train delay” to all the images having been created at such an occasion. It could be that a pattern becomes visible.

Tags:lettering, lorry, patch, rivet
Posted in LX3, urban | 2 Comments »

The Peasant’s Bike

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Wals, Austria

Tags:Agriculture, bicycle, field, gender role, tradition, transport
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