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Not A SoFoBoMo Book: Budapest Fringe Time

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A missed deadline is a missed deadline, and a SoFoBoMo book that takes more to complete than the given 31 day period is not a SoFoBoMo book. Such as mine. What is a failure in SoFoBoMo categories is still not a failure for me. I made my book, and the process of selecting, editing and…

Cello, Commuting

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The view of a cello, especially in such a somewhat surreal situation, always reminds me of the Swiss author and cabaret performer Franz Hohler, who used to accompagny his performances with his cello. The English wikipedia article unfortunately is not more than a stub, and even Amazon doesn’t list any books available in English. At…

New Galleries: Salzburg From Above and Wrapped Trailers

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Interrupting the merely started series from the Country Wedding, I want to announce the two additions in the galleries section: “Wrapped Trailers”, a find from this year on the island of Krk, Croatia, and “Salzburg From Above”, the result of excursions on the Kapuzinerberg in Salzburg, Austria. The Wedding Series will continue tomorrow.

Budapest Fire Plugs

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Carl Weese’s Pink Fire Plug inspired me to for today’s posting. Yesterday I was at a wedding, but those 1200+ images are an intimidating amount even for skulling. It was a rural-style wedding, which had lasted already for 11 hours when I left early, so the number of pictures per hour is not that big…

Come Rain or Come Shine: Worldwide Photowalk in Bad Reichenhall

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The third Worldwide Photowalk takes place on July 24th, 2010. Following up last year’s event, I will again lead a photowalk in my hometown, Bad Reichenhall – come rain or come shine. 2009 we had plenty of fun in plenty of rain, so I am optimistic that the first part of the term will be…

Art Deco Overflow

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Still Budapest, still doorways. Amazing enough that those doors have survived a 100 years or even more, through times when money was an even more scarce resource than now and sensitivity for bourgeouis architectural monuments was certainly not overwhelming. For me it was a bit like delving into the past, or more precisely, swinging between…

The Urban-Detail-and-Doorway Genre

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I read this labelling recently on The Online Photographer and I can’t help the feeling that it sounds a tad patronizing – but maybe I am only overly sensitive and don’t want to see such a readymade denomination fitting my own selection of images. Yet those streets, facades and doors are a substantial part of…

Carl Lutz Memorial, Budapest

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“He, who saves one single person, could also save the whole world” – This is the talmudian inscription on the memorial by the Hungarian sculptor Tamas Szabo for the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz in the Jewish Quarter of Budapest. Carl Lutz worked from 1942 onwards in the Swiss embassy in Budapest, and together with the…

Soproni Ad, Postboxes

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You see, I like contrasts. But it’s not a purposeful act, accomplished by searching through the images and combining the most contrasty ones, no – such finds like the above are only meters away from the wonderful Mai Mano house of yesterday’s post. With Tyler Monson I had a short exchange originating of the reactions…

The Pomp is in The Title

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“Imperial and Royal Court Photographer” – at those times the a good photographer was held in high esteem. Mai Mano, who was allowed to wear this title, was famous for his portraits of children in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now his house is the “Hungarian House of Photography” with exhibitions, a bookshop and the daylight studio,…

Another Iceland: 113 Reykjavik

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Tyler Monson (author of the blogs Here Now, Gone Before Long and More Original Refrigerator Art) today published his new book-blog 113 Reykjavik. This is more a book than a blog, presented in its final form, with now additional posts coming, and intended to be read sequentially. Fans of icelandic landscapes with volcanoes of bad…

Mikroszkóp Színpad

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Mikroszkóp Színpad is a theater in Budapest. While my wideangle zoom gets only rarely exercise, sometimes it proves to be a real asset. But the drawback of using it only rarely is, that I sometimes forget the basics, like in this case: The fastest f-stop was definitely an inconsiderate (non-)choice and introduced a lot of…