My personal relationship with Thuja bushes is quite negative – I seem them as plants adequate for graveyards, and that is all the places I would think they are suitable for. In the last decades however they became really popular here to mark parcel borders or even to decorate front yards, gardens and facades. In…
© Carl Weese Time is running: The Pt/Pd print sale on The Online Photographer will end on Friday midnight! There is still enough time to order one or more prints of three images from Carl Weese, one of them is “The Pike Drive-In” from his series of American Drive-In Movie Theaters. The prints are offered…
The Honda car dealership here in Munich at the moment shows this poster. It seems that Eggleston’s image material (see the original here on the Washington Times website) was regarded insufficient for the intended purpose, so I guess a talented photoshop artist had to add blue sky and clouds as well as some warm tones…
In spite of the temperatures starting to rise to summerly heights, in those streets where the trees get only part-time exposition to the sun, the spring colors are still delicate. Fine for a walk when commuting traffic already subsides and the last sunlight gives the white blossoms a golden glow. (Oh yes, and I have…
What has salad to do with Chernobyl, and what the heck has Chernobyl to do with infinity? For the records: April 26th is the sad anniversary of the atomic catastrophy of Chernobyl. The victims of Chernobyl have not been counted, the true number has never been published, and thanks to this precaution of an inhuman…
Another kind of street photography, easier for me as the continous sneezing announces my activity to all potential human subject matter. The two different kinds of line interested me, and exploring the image in it, I tried b&w for a moment, but gave up again as the bluish tones of the shadows and the warm…
Quite a while ago, Mike Johnston of “The Online Photographer” postulated a Tenset for all photography websites. I do well remember that there were also some critical voices regarding this idea, in the sense that this would just alleviate consumability of individual work and so on. Having pondered on that proposal long enough, I finally…
A Westend street scenery. I probably can count myself lucky for not having been accused being a stalker, re-using that red parka as a welcome color element.
Next to the Resurrection Church, in an architectonic ensemble meanwhile under preservation order, is the last “Ledigenwohnheim” in Europe. It was built in 1926, visible by close inspection of the relief to the right, and was meant as a means to fight the increasing cheapest variant of lodging, where sleeping facilities where rented out only…
Built in the first decade of the 20th century, the “Church of Resurrection” in Munich showcases the “New Objectivity”, replacing Art Nouveau’s rich decoration with a really sober style where the material of the structure does not only serve a functional purpose but became visible facade and decoration, too.
Trying to find a balance between beauty and banality, furtheron trying to fight against deadly repetition, I fear I have lost and have to face defeat: I admit having used the saturation slider as nature’s colors were not satisfying my need for overwhelming warmth and tenderness.And to add to this crime, I have succumbed to…
The village of Anger is said to be the most beautiful on in Bavaria. Taking into account that this statement was made by King Ludwig I of Bavaria (Ludwig II was the slightly unhinged one, playing with fairy tale castles) and that the number of villages in Bavaria is quite big, this really means some…
Any doubts that he has golden hands, Hugo the Boss? Well, all those gazillions of fashion addicts should have made them golden in the meantime… But the company still can develop: At the moment there’s only fashion, perfumes, spectacle frames and watches from this brand. And the real money is not made by producing something…
On the way back into 19th century, the central railway system of Germany now gets de-centralized and in the regions the railway public transport is handled by smaller, sometimes county based companies. This can have a positive side-effect like those brand new suburban cars, but also results in some weird occurences: Completely to the surprise…
Salzburg’s Train Station is undergoing modernisation at a grand scale. Up to now the platforms still had their delicate cast iron structures, subject of this post. As in Austria there are quite a number of succesfull examples of modern architecture, also of good old-new combinations, I am curious in a positive way about the outcomes…
Oral tradition from Italy tells that once a week young boys in certain parts of Italy are made to stand on the kitchen table, while the female members of the family dance around the table and the boy, clapping their hands and shouting “Que Bello!”. This story flashed up in the back of my mind…
Found in Salzburg’s Train Station. Van Gogh’s image “The Mailman Roulin” is the icon for the exhibition “Summit of Modernity” in the Museum of Modern Art.
The weather is as it has to be expected in April: Rapidly changing from really hot in the sun to rainfall, and in the morning the rain can even be mixed with snowflakes. The early blossoms have to face all this, and the beautiful Forsythia will probably wither soon and change their proud yellow against…
The museum of Winterthur, Switzerland, has closed its premises for renovation and lent its collection to the Salzburg Museum of Modern Art for exhibition. What made the visit even more enjoyable, was the fact that photographing was not prohibited, as it is so often in museums. I have to admit that this makes me somewhat…
Wordless Thursday today. Excuse and Enjoy.
This is one of the personal rewards of photography for me: Standing in exact the same place I had been thousands of time before, commuting from work, and opening the eyes – discovering something new, something that triggers a cell way back in the innards of the brain. Reacting with the camera, quick, as the…
The weather was undecided, and so is the season just 100 altitude meters above our hometown: The grass is definitely taking up colors, the buds of the trees are developing, yet not bursting and the sun was warmer, but not yet strong. All in all very pleasant, seducing to play with subtle forms and colors.…
Maybe I should make a story wallowing in self-pity, coming two days late for the Holy Grave of the Höglwörth abbey church. The specialty of this Holy Grave is, that it is only shown every third year, and is only shown on Good Friday and Holy Saturday in it’s full beauty . But then, I…
Easter Sunday was almost as wet as expected, and so eggs and kids had to be kept in the flat. To be honest, I didn’t mind, because after mass at 05:00 my inclination for activties was pretty low.
One more addition to my collection of leaves that could not complete their fall to the ground. My subconscious associated Leonhard Cohen’s “Suzanne” with it, but in spite of re-reading the lyrics I could not find the chain of arguments. The other leaves you can find here in in this small gallery. A Happy Easter…