Florianiplatz, Bad Reichenhall
Easter Decoration
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Waiting For Angling Season To Start
Thumsee, Bad Reichenhall
Don’t Block The Exit
Lindwurmstrasse, Munich
Timber Works
Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria
Arcs And Tree
City Tree VIII
St. Andrew’s Church, Munich
Apple Blossoms
Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria
City Bird’s Nest
Schmellerstr., München
City Tree VII
Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria
Chairs – for Ai Weiwei
At the 2007 Documenta in Kassel, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei (here is a clip from his TED talk) showed a project called “Fairytale”. Part of this project was not only freedom of travel for 1001 “ordinary Chinese”, whom he had invited to visit Documenta, but also 1001 old Chinese chairs, which first served as…
Garages, Dandelions
Karlstein, Bad Reichenhall
Coca Cola And The City Tree
Westend, Munich
A Place In The Sun
Staffabruck, Bad Reichenhall
Evening In The City
Westend, Munich I have adapted Carl Weese’s style of image captions for the time being. My flu/pollinosis/work overloaded head doesn’t allow for elaborated sentences in the evening when I’ve time for the blog. And besides, there isn’t so much to say for the moment 🙂
City Tree, Office Variety
Sorry, too exhausted for more words.
Urban Tulip
Pouring Over Tax Forms
Dedicated to all my friends in the U.S. of A., (especially Tyler Monson of O.R.A. and Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer, the latter even half-heartedly interrupting blogging for this occasion), sweating now filling out their tax forms. 1981, after having finished my service in the German army, I started for a lengthy trip through…
City Tree VI
Trapped between two house, the still winterly-bare tree is more like a skeleton, branches and twigs setting irregular counterpoints against the rectangularity of the architectural elements. In two weeks times, the shapes will be much more soothing, the leaves forming green shields for the people on the balconies.
Workshop And Trees
Since quite some time I have been discontent with my blog theme. One could image, that among the ‘zillion of wordpress themes on the web, there should be one for me, too. Alas, if there is, I didn’t find it. So I took an evolutionary step forward from my old theme, tried to enhance readability…
Dialogue Of Shadows
Taking on the topic of trees in the city, these “talking” shadows caught my eye. I was not aware about the extent to which a self-set theme can intensify seeing. Ok, I was interested in trees before, also in that conflict area of nature in the city, so I did not have to go out…
City Trees V
These trees grow next to one of the busiest streets in Munich, they must be of real strong constitution. That the exhaust gases of the cars also contain nutrients for plants is a theoretical advantage, lack of root space in the soil and de-icing salt in the winter will more than compensate for this.
Brecht And The Latched City Tree
Despite the urban heat islands, vegetation in Munich is in many places still in a pre-vernal stage, with cherry trees and sometimes Magnolias being the notable exception. The city tree subject remains interesting, especially in this stage when the trees are more a structure than a corpus. Pre- and after-work strolls led to a number…
City Tree III
This mini-series of city trees reminds me again of that Dorothea Lange quote “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”. None of these images had required me to make a special effort regarding location. No, the only energy I had to invest was to lift my head and…
City Tree II
Today was the first really warm spring day with temperatures above 20° C (68° F) which means an explosive developement of the vegetation – my nose feels this earlier than it becomes visible. Anyhow, the soft light around sunset was inviting enough for a walk, where this tree saw me, maybe 150m from home. It…
Untitled
I clearly admit that I did not (yet) fully understand Roland Barthes’ book ‘Camera Lucida’. Thanks to The Online Photographer I do know now that this is not a failure. Barthes’ concept of studium and punctum is convincing, and it helps me to understand why another viewer’s reaction can be so different from mine. Also…