As sunset is early meanwhile – I am waiting for the end of Daylight Saving Time – I decided to leave work early and spend some time in the park, catching the sunrays at low angles, beautifully backlighting some foreign grass in the background. That preference for backlight dates back into my boyhood: In some…
Probably the one and only true fall flower, at least in Europe: The Meadow Saffron’s German name is “Herbstzeitlose” (Herbst = autumn). It blooms now and makes best use of the weaker competition for pollinators. As beautiful as it looks, as poisonous it is, and in earlier times intoxications were not rare among humans as…
Hearing descending steps on the road below, I decided to react quickly: Dialling down the ISO, cramming in the slowest possible f-stop I estimated I should get a low shutter speed, slow enough to render the pedestrian in a blurry manner, avoiding the impression of a frozen moment and setting her in contrast to the…
Saturday morning provided opportunity for a short stroll through the neighborhood when overcast sky and slight fog were still prominent. I like this kind of light very much, and as I had only two fast primes with me, the light level was not a problem. Only the autofocus was, wide open I sometimes had the…
The lack of leaf coloring makes the other factors of autumn more prominent, especially draught and funguses, starting their work now already when the leaves are still on the trees. I enjoy this diversion from normal fall routine, giving opportunity to picture it in a different manner.
Through a post on Conscientious I was directed to the work of Dania Patricia Maxwell, a graduate student in the School of Visual Communications at Ohio University. Strong work in her portfolios (check out at least “Home Drive” and “Singles”) as well as her blog. She really manages to transport her vision through the lens.
While the green layers of the landscape to the right have their charms, I was more interested in the play of light and shadow on the weathered spruce wood of the old barn. The place, where these and the previous images were taken is “Nonner Oberland”, probably the warmest part in our valley. I was…
I had already packed the camera into the trunk of the car, having finished a sunday stroll with the family, when I suddenly saw those peculiar “hats” on the fenceposts. The first frame suffered from a bad background – too light, competing for attention with the toppings – so I left the car again, in…
Wordless wednesday, again.
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…
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…
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 🙂
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…
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’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.
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……
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.
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.
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…
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…
Sometimes the small iuxtapositions grab the view – with sparse colors, like here, and just an antagonism in their basic shapes: rectangle vs. circle.
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.
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…
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.
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…