Old Arc, New Door
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Krk, Croatia
Archive for the ‘monochrome’ Category
June Wallpapers
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
The June wallpapers are here, as usual. This month’s image was made in the ‘Pinakothek der Moderne’ in Munich, which has a wonderful collection of contemporary design, too. And they don’t forbid photography in the museum (without flash of course) which in a certain way reconciled me with the high entrance fee. 10,- € might not be much for the young urban ‘performers’, but it certainly limits your wish to visit the museum if you have to get along with a limited budget, being still in school or apprenticeship. A museum that is only for elite groups in a certain way falls short. But as Bavaria has a right wing government almost since WWII, this certainly is not unintended. Just keep the classes separate…
Searching Cara, Also Meeting Pepper
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011![Click to enlarge: Meeting Pepper [f/9, 1/10 sec, 16mm-e, ISO 400, Sony A700]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dsc45788bb.jpg "Click to enlarge: Meeting Pepper [f/9, 1/10 sec, 16mm-e, ISO 400, Sony A700]")
Image courtesy of Gallery Stephen Hoffmann
This can happen: you walk to see a show in a gallery, and get greeted by one of Edward Weston’s “Pepper” images in the window. Ok, in this place, the gallery Stephen Hoffmann in Munich, it can’t be seen as unusual, but it is still astonishing, kind of a mild shock.
The other very positive surprise were Cara Weston’s images (You can get a good impression from her website): Very straightforward, technically perfect black and white photography, but with just the right amount of soul in the greatness of the exhibited west-coast landscapes to differentiate her way of seeing from the images of her father and grandfather (Cole resp. Edward Weston). Her “Waterfall And Trees” (here on her website) is a wonderful photography, a real landscape of a dreamscape, where you could ponder the question if that’s a fountain or a waterfall. For a German, these American landscapes have their own quality, as it is is almost impossible to find similar sceneries over here. I don’t fall in the trap of romanticising U.S. landscapes and landscape photography, but I certainly concede the attractiveness of Cara’s photography.
Also very agreeable was the mood in the gallery, complemented by a interesting conversation with the kind gallery owners. A clear recommendation if anyone happens to visit Munich. The Jerry Uelsmann show scheduled for April 2011 will certainly see me as a visitor.
Dancers
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Ok, that was a narrow escape: handling a camera in the hospital’s waiting room while the best wife of all sits there with a luxated thumb, waiting to get x-rayed, *can* lead to a serious conflict. Lucky man that I am, it didn’t… But this dragon tree (dracaena draco), barely surving the lack of light (and maybe all the sighs in this room) had just an irresistible shape. Not leaving the house without the camera paid out once again, and having mounted that bulky 1.8/28mm lens was just the right choice.
Monochrome Slope
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Monochrome light like this I’ve met only rarely: Besides a little bluish cast, the subject matter is almost completely without color. Only when viewing the original file at pixel size I found yellowish spots in the rocks, but the rest are just shades of white and grey. Even the fir trees had lost their green over the distance. But even more intriguing for me was that curved slope that is like a curtain, opening just a partial view on the mountains in the background.