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Hydrant, Snow

February 9th, 2012 by Markus

Hydrant, Snow

Munich, Bavaria

Tags: hydrant, snow

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14 Responses to “Hydrant, Snow”

  1. John - Visual Notebook says:
    2012/02/09 at 19:03

    NSFW in Santorum country…that’s great! And probably, sadly, true….

    • Markus says:
      2012/02/09 at 20:37

      John, Santorums and their like in disguise you will probably find everywhere. In Germany we have a quite sophisticated political caste at the moment, with the consequence that things get nivellated and boring and people don’t see a big choice.

  2. Martina says:
    2012/02/09 at 20:02

    And this is the real thing?
    A Klappmantelhydrant? With valves that open to the left?

    Nice how there are a few red spots in the photo.

    • Markus says:
      2012/02/09 at 20:49

      Klappmantelhydrant? Not quite – Fallmantelhydrant would be correct according to this Introduction to Hydrantology.

      The orange/red dots made the image for me, and of course the semi-blurred pedestrian.

      • Martina says:
        2012/02/09 at 20:58

        Have you ever seen an “Alter Münchner”?

        I’ve downloaded almost the same pdf from another Jugendfeuerwehr two days ago … if my computer will ever be hacked the hacker might think I am a firefighter ….

        • Markus says:
          2012/02/09 at 21:08

          No, haven’t seen it. But I can try and ask for connections to the firefighters brigade – they wanted a map from me, so I can ask for something in exchange.

          • Martina says:
            2012/02/09 at 21:10

            And just this second I said to my BF: Oh, poor Markus – now he has to find an “Alter Münchner” for me …

            regarding maps, do you know this one:

            http://www.openfiremap.org/

            • Markus says:
              2012/02/09 at 21:24

              The map is interesting – pretty similar technology to what I use for our environmental mapping. And you made me curious, so I’ll see how far I get in my search for “Alte Münchner”

  3. Colin Griffiths says:
    2012/02/10 at 08:06

    That’s a clever image with good positioning of the elements, the reduced colour pallette and the touches of red.

    • Markus says:
      2012/02/10 at 19:07

      Colin, this is certainly more in my picturing realms than the nightly scenery was. I admit I have a faible for such incomplete palettes. I don’t know why, but leaving one primary color out of the image very often works for me, allows me to play better with shapes and their arrangements.

  4. Carl Weese says:
    2012/02/10 at 16:49

    Wonderful picture, and the hydrant sure is completely different from what we’re used to.

    • Markus says:
      2012/02/10 at 19:09

      Thanks, Carl. I had left the office for lunch break – and to fulfill Martina’s request – and it seems I was open enough to become aware of such a quiet, unobtrusive scenery.

  5. Thomas says:
    2012/02/11 at 19:41

    And I thought I’d only learn something about photography here. Thanks for the intro to German hydrantism – another education gap closed (sort of…;)

    • Markus says:
      2012/02/11 at 22:44

      Well, Thomas, didn’t you know that 3 years of blog reading are adequate to a bachelor degree?

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