Before The Rain Set In

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria

I almost killed my DSLR yesterday. I had left it on the table under the office window when an evening thunderstorm brought so much rain that the lightwell outside the window filled with dammed up rainwater that the sewerage system could not drain any more. So the water pressed through the window sealings and – I discovered it only minutes before it would have reached the camera. Narrow escape…

Tags:motion blur, trampoline
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Li’l Composer

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Rehearsing an instrument is not always a joyful time for a kid, and therefore the moments where the music grabs the mind and inspires the phantasy are even more precious. When this happened and she grabbed music paper and a pencil, I was happy to have the camera at hand, and even more happy to have that phantastic old 1.4/85mm lens.

Tags:available light, composition, music
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early birds

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

at a wedding, the kids started inspecting the buffet quite early. to their discontent, no french fries were to be found. to try the alternatives a bit of persuasion was needed, but in the end even the little ladies were satisfied.

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happy end of a sleigh riding accident

Monday, January 12th, 2009

thanks god the eeg showed that everything is ok now. our youngest daughter suffered from a concussion after a sleigh riding collision on new years eve. today we went for the 2nd eeg as the first one was not to the full contentment of the neurologist, and now there are no signs of an adverse effect on the brain any more.

and again i learnt in what a happy environment we live: fully equipped hospital with motivated, skilled, and not exhausted staff. and then the pictures from the hospital in batticaloa come back to my mind, and the stories i had to learn there: about all the shortages everybody from the cleaners up to the director have to live with, the arbitrariness of government decisions and the discrimination of tamil institutions – i could go on for quite a while. on wednesday i will leave again for sri lanka for a project mission. give god that the fighting will come to and end and there will be peace between all groups of population. it’s only that all signs are against this…

Tags:eeg, electroencephalogram, hospital, Kind, Krankenhaus
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