The monument for king Maximilian II of Bavaria shows allegoric figures of the virtues of this ruler: power (the first image), wisdom (the second), justice and peacefulness (third image). At night they are even more impressiva as during the day. Max Zwo is just the Bavarian lingo for Max II
Via Roma, Turin, (osm)
Delayed train again (which I’ve learned not to welcome, but to make best use of), but in spite of the occasion mostly a dry spell as even my eyesight seems to suffer from the exceptional heat we have.
Torino is a partner in the European Union funded project PUMAS, in which European Cities, among them the City of Munich, partner to explore possibilites for a less CO2 emitting urban traffic. For this reason, all delegation members took notice of the big number of yellow bicycles in the city, which are available for rent…
Crane’s Bills are prototypical Bavarian plants. Window flower boxes with them, a facade with old fashioned shutters and above it blue sky dotted with white clouds – most of the non-Bavarians would say: this is it, the real thing, genuinely Bavaria.
As usual for download from here. Enjoy the summer!
Largo IV Marzo, Turin, (osm)
A conference on sustainable urban traffic recently led me to Torino in Italy. Of course the days were filled with meetings and presentations – that’s why I was sent there – but all the time slices around the official events proved to be perfectly usable for photography. My style of photography in this case, which…
Update: Every image in this blog enlarges when you click on it. What I thought is self-evident (as I do this on other blogs all the time), seems to be a small secret for many users. Since the new blog scales well on screens of different sizes, this might not be something really detracting, but…
As an end point to this year’s images from the town of Krk on the island of Krk in Croatia, here is a gallery of ship details again, this time featuring the color orange. With red, blue and now orange the ship colors are basically done, the sailships in plastic white and the small number…
Thanks to James Weekes for coining that fitting term. And Carl himself again has nice weeds on display today.
When the train is late, and the light is good, fish are jumpin’… Err, the shutter is clicking…
