Wordless wednesday, again.
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Rural Slam Dunks, Passed
Some 20 years ago, Basketball became popular for a short time also here in Germany – and the home improvement stores all sold basketball baskets in great numbers. But Germany is a soccer world all over again, the nets on the baskets faded, disintegrated, and vanished. The metal rings you still find as mementos even…
Keys and Ivy
Photokina is over, and nothing world-shattering happened. This year for the first time I had tickets for it – what would I have given for that opportunity as a gear headed boy – and I didn’t go. It simply seemed not interesting enough to sacrifice a working day plus the price for the train ticket…
Door, Wicket, Window
This goes with best wishes to Carl Weese. I found these doors barely 200m away from our flat, having passed by that place probably thousands of times. It seems that my eyes have opened a tiny bit wider 🙂
Old Engineering Town Hall, Munich
The City of Munich is proud of its villagey character and therefore has decided in the year 2004 not to allow new high-risers to be built in the (largely drawn) center of the city – only outside the ring streets this remains possible. But in the very center of Munich there still is a 12-storey…
Fall Rhythm
The beginning of the cold season usually awakens new melancholic feelings in me, this year is not different from the last ones. The wall with traces of dirty rainwater was already subject of a post one year ago, but this time I concentrated more on the almost repelling character of a cold rhythm of roof…
October Wallpapers
October’s wallpapers match the current (German) season: Grey drizzle, foliage not yet colored. The autumn weather was strange this year. Due to moderate temperatures and enough humidity the dying of the leaves is somewhat postponed. But as I am not chasing postcard-suitable subjects this is not a drawback at all, on the contrary.
Selle Royal
It seems that commuting problems become a root of photographic endeavours: The “Batticaloa Fences” gallery finally was realized due to a delay, several of my commuting images resulted of unplanned stops, and today’s mini gallery of the “Dust Bikes” resulted from me leaving too late for the station and missing the train for just seconds……
A Tree of a Different Kind
Leaving the subway on a steep escalator, I was greeted by skywards reaching facades, and felt really relieved having finally reached the inner courtyard, planted with trees. Only after a while I recognized that those trees were not all of the same kind.
Not Being Sick
For a given reason I made several visits to this hospital. Whilst the medical treatment without doubt is first class – many families from the near east oil dynasties travel here – the space made a somewhat depressing impression on me. The only minuscule changes between the images certainly speak of a leaden time.
Octoberfest Bomb Blast’s 30th Anniversary
October September 26h, 1980: Thousands of visitors are entering the Octoberfest in Munich through the main entrance. Suddenly a detonation shreds the constant flow of people: A right-wing extremist had detonated a bomb inmidst the crowd, killing 13 and wounding hundreds. The attacker, too, got killed in the explosion. At that time Germany was still…
New Gallery: Batticaloa Fences
Since quite some time I had planned to revisit older images. Yesterday’s train delay, that made me spend a very uncomfortable time in an even more uncomfortable train station at night, finally gave me the opportunity to do this. Besides some tagging in bibble5 (which is not yet as comfortable as I’d wish it to…
Urban Gearwheel
Sometimes the small iuxtapositions grab the view – with sparse colors, like here, and just an antagonism in their basic shapes: rectangle vs. circle.
Bleibt – Remains
The office building currently gets heavily renovated, and while most of the basement garage driveway was taken down, that small part – the former doorman’s office – was marked to remain.
Danger: Urban Octopus!
The administration of the City of Munich is distributed over many buildings, and commuting to and from meetings is mandatorily done via public transport (the Lord Mayor and a handful of Heads of Department being the only exception). And me, I carried a camera when meeting colleagues of the survey department, so I could document…
Box Again
For platform furnishing only the most robust plants are suitable. Here a Pine tree, a Box bush and Olibanum (?) have to suffer for the assumed desideratum of the passengers to see some green.
Potential for Growth
First part of this early morning commuting trip was a walk in the rain, and against my usual habit I had enough time when reaching the station. Well, meanwhile it’s still dark when I leave, but the wet plaster made up for nice reflections to frame those poor, forlorn-looking small box bushes. It will take…
White, Past
No words for today.
Not Artwork
Astonishing enought, they don’t forbid cameras in the Salzburg Museum of Modern Art – given you don’t try to take pictures of the artwork. Anyhow, the environment sometimes provides food for frames as well.
A Sudden Gust of Wind
The title for this image came up as a sudden association, but when searching for it, it turned out that I must have heard of or seen the masterpiece and originator of that title: Hokusai’s woodblock print of the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji”, and the later adaption by Jeff Wall. Just see them…
Storm Clouds over the Harbour
Same harbour, different day, different direction of view. What is a nice and harmless (and not so enthusiasting) scenery nonetheless permanently photographed on other days, gets a nice twist when the weather threatens with a storm front.
Guess the Language
I am still not sure if this is part of the official vocabulary or just an individual extension.
Renault 4
This is in a certain way a sentimental post: The Renault 4, or R4 as it was commonly called, was our first car, back in 1983. A robust vehicle with plenty of room for frequently moving students, a moderate appetite for the always expensive gasoline, and plenty of old fashioned technique that allowed (and needed)…
Blue wrap
Another wrapped car on the camping site in Krk.
Ears
The corrosive qualities of the permanent and salty winds is reason for a number of car owners to wrap their most precious asset in protective foils. Of course the brand – reason for the pride of ownership – should remain visible