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Pipevine and Biker
Not taking the tramway for the way home from office, my path led through the smaller streets – less car traffic and more bikers. The Munich administration engages in many activities to make cycling through the city more attractive. Diverting the car traffic into the main roads by selective speed limits in residential streets as…
King’s Doner – König Döner
On the brink of gentrification, the Westend in Munich is one of the old quarters, traditionally home of workers and craftsmen, now to be taken over by business school graduates and the like. The still mixed indigenious population – many Turkish people live here, you get Halal food on every corner – recedes slowly with…
Train Station South Exit
Got suspected that my camera is glued to my right hand, but that’s ok with me, especially when running errands brings in interesting photographic opportunities like this one. As Earl remarked on the previous image, this picture, too, contains sub-sceneries that make it a bit more complex.
Munich Morning
Commuting by train offers time for reading or programming, but unlike traveling by car, only limited occasions for photography. Nevertheless, approaching the station means not only packing book and/or laptop, but also unpacking the camera for the 5 minutes walk to the office. When asked beforehand I would have negated that this could mean any…
Strong Feet
Autumnal Leaves
The Coldest Lake
Frillensee is Germany’s coldest lake, and we are lucky that it did not fell prey to a ice rink planning already decades ago. On another topic: This was not the only image I had set hopes in, but the only one where the lens was fully shaded by some trees. As I had neglected to…
Little Landscapist
Today we spent a wonderful day at Attersee in Austria, with both air and water temperatures high enough to make swimming very agreeable – probably one of the last weekends this fall for such activities. And when in the evening smoke from one of the houses made the golden sunlight visible, we were presented with…
Bavarian Fingerfood And October Wallpapers
Octoberfest of course is an attraction from people from all over the world. With these international visitors of course public announcements and advertisement become more and more – at least – English, too. What once was a “Schmankerl” (delicacy) and in this word communicating only to the indigenious people, caricaturized on the maypoles in the…
Subtle Humor
Mike Johnston over at TOP had his take on humor today, albeit an almost (at least so I feel) brute one. I’d recommend today’s Blackandwhitecolours. No, I won’t spoil things for you by showing a preview. Enjoy it yourself, and remember: It’s not how things really are settled in the Alps – might come close…
Shadow On The Wall
Red Bike
Urban Trees Again
Wood Markings
Windows, Weeds, And A Blog Note
I hope that not too many of you have suffered from the technical issues this blog had in the last days. Today the account got moved by the truly responsive Hosting24 service crew to a new datacenter, it seems at least to me that load times are considerable shorter now. Additionally I have tried to…
Storm Setting In
Strong Lines
No diagonals like those Andreas Manessinger shows here in such perfection, but still strong lines and rhythms in this image.
Blue Drainpipe
Noticed and framed during one of my prime-expeditions earlier this year, with a borrowed Minolta 1.7/50mm. Too long for an allround lens on APS-C, it is well suited to concentrate on the subject and cut off distracting elements.
After The Concert
Summer Reminiscence
The first cold autumn day with temperatures not much over 6° C makes looking at summer pictures a somewhat melancholic activity. But this one I like for its supernatural impression.
Opportunity Crossing
This image I made back in July. Besides that I fact that I like it, it may serve the purpose to illustrate why I hold my standard zoom in high esteem: My standard focal length would be more in the 35-50mm-e range. When this Muslim lady walked by, there would have been no chance to…
Power Bull
This time of the year is the tradition-enriched return of livestock from high alpine summer pastures, where it had spent the summer. As traditions tend to get transferred (and modified in that process), outside of the Berchtesgaden valley, this probably newly acquired tractor truck was decorated like the lead cow on occasion of the livestock…