Found early in the morning on the way to work, when a traffic accident had enforced a walk for the last 2 km to work.
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Twilight Car
Carl Weese recently showed a diptych of cinema ads and cars, here, so a twilight scenery advertising the (in Germandy new) twilight series, makes up a nice complement. And from the sceneries I’ve seen from that TV-event, cars do play a major role there. But then, I’m neither in cars nor in TV, which I…
Car County
Stuttgart and the surrounding cities are one of the carmakers’ centers, with Mercedes-Benz and Porsche both having their head offices there, surrounded by innumerable component suppliers. This orientation also shows in the residential streets, even the very new ones.
Anti-Nuclear Handshake
The nice play of the shadows I had only seen from the corner of the eye, and asking the protagonists to repeat it occurred to me only later – there it shows up that I am not a professional. For this time it’s the last anti-nuclear image I am pestering you with. But then, for…
Nuclear Energy Is A Dead End
It seems that I am already billions years old – taking into account the specialist’s arithmetics that a core meltdown in a nuclear power plant will happen only once in a billion of years. Returning from my meeting in Ludwigsburg, I was lucky to meet fellow photographer Martin Storz from The Public Eye Blog. It…
Faces Of The Resistance
Spending the last days in the transnational meeting of the European project “Energycity”, dealing with prediction methods to calculate the efficiency of energy saving methods and in this way contributing to the reduction of CO2 emissions, I happened to have a hotel room next to an election rally event hall. German politics really have been…
Searching Cara, Also Meeting Pepper
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…
View From The Top
Sometimes images don’t get recognized immediately. After downloading it from the memory card, it got buried in the todo-pile, and it took quite a while until I unearthed it. Only when playing around with the overall contrast and the rendering of the textures – there’s still some headroom – I noticed small details that finally…
Looking Cross-Eyed
Found on a barn wall near “Wachterl”, a pass height of the major transalpine road in Bavaria. Such trophies usually have a great value for the hunter and are treated and presented very carefully. Using big visible screws and washers to fix them shows substantial ironical traits – or are blunt blasphemy in the eyes…
Beer Lovers Parking Only
Beware of drunken drivers!
Reproduction, Bavarian Style
No wonder that real Bavarians are a race on the brink of extinction.
Hommage to Lee Friedlander
The camera at hand pays out, even at occasions like waiting for the family to enter the car. And the association to Friedlander’s famous “America by Car” series came immediately. But for me it’s more than a simple imitation of his way of framing his image with parts of his car, I tried to capture…
Evening, Somewhere In Bavaria
Fine evening light, the familiar silhouette of our valley’s mountain, Staufen, but… If “CHINA SHIPPING” is here, Japan can’t be that far. Suddenly our small place sees itself embedded in a global world, where Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and following nuclear disaster are just a truckload away. And while I feel with the suffering people in…
Alpine Evening
To get some fresh air and give the daughter a walk and an opportunity to exercise her new camera, we climbed the hill behind our place and got a glimpse of the last evening light. Have a happy and relaxing weekend!
Fenceposts And Tree
The valleys already are a brownish green with Hazelnut-signs of spring (I can tell from my itching nose and sore eyes) but above 1000m winter does not want to give in yet. As this crisp air is more pollen-free, I thoroughly enjoy it. And being able to create another Landscape (genre-wise) image that includes the…
Blue Lights
Meanwhile the snow is thawing everywhere here. But the artificial blue light – different to Juha Haataja’s “night” here – renders the oversweetened urban flavour of cold and wannabe coolness.
Live From The Museum
Tyler Monson again provoked me for an image selection with his wonderful Museum Scenery. My image was made in the Salzburg Museum of Modern Art, a place where photography (not of the artwork) is usually allowed.
The Bathroom Of The Future
When seeing Tyler Monson’s “Portland Public Toilet” and Carl Weese’s “Public Accomodations”, I immediately remembered my encounter with the “future of the bathroom” in Colombo last year. Enjoy! And be reminded: you can click on every image to enlarge it.
Not Carneval
The prototope of the American Indian is regarded iconic and suitable for advertising over here. The romantic view of the “Noble Savage”, that a certain Karl May (1842 – 1912) had modeled in his numerous novels about the American Old West – whilst he had never set foot there – is still predominant in the…
Just The Right Amount Of Carneval
Remnants of our hometown’s carneval parade at the entrance of the Heilingbrunner-school, the parade’s organisers’ home
Maple Silhouettes
This is the kind of mountain experience I try to find, away of noise and entertainment facilities. This year I was restricted to walk on paths, but next year I’ll try to get some snow shoes to become more independent of the traffic infrastructure.
Sepp Maltan Recycling
Couldn’t help but had to show this image. Ok, it shows my negligence in cleaning the front lens of my camera, but put that aside and you can also find the automobile lifecycle in it: from shining finish up to an advertisement for the recycling mill, endpoint of every vehicle life.
Alpine Mobility Devices
Not far away from the place where I discovered the snowy peaks for this month’s wallpaper there is the parking lot for the skiing area. Now, transporting skiers and catering them is not a lucrative business per se any more, so numerous events have to be invented and executed, until the last tiny remembrance bit…
Utility Pole
I love the stark contrast of the technical shapes against the deep blue sky and the harmonious forms in the snow-background.
March Wallpapers
February went by fast and with it the greater part of winter’s darkness is gone. But cold and snow remain here in Bavaria in spite of the sometimes strong sunlight and the intense colors, and this is what I tried to transport in my march wallpapers. That image also marks the transition from my 2.5…