Open for interpretations, maybe even inviting to it – I found this empty phone booth on a very late walk back home when the bus hadn’t come, rain was setting, I was tired and all that. No “saturation to the max”, I swear it. The magenta of the handset is like that (this is the…
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Krk Clocktower Angel
Whilst the kids were fascinated by the wonderful missals in Krk’s church and exhibition room, my eyes were attracted by the remainders of the wooden statue of an angel, up to 1973 situated on top of the cathedral’s clocktower. This clocktower is visible in many of the small alleys of Krk, and with it’s green…
World in a Bottle
It seems as I can’t escape the heat, so this beach photo is more then adequate. Today was an office day here in Munich, and temperatures in the street are up in the high thirties again. In a southbound office room this does mean quite a bit. Fortunately enough Munich tap water is at least…
Window Tomcat
The holidays ended yesterday with a night drive back to Bavaria, and the first day working of course meant searching through a pile of emails and sorting and organising… Still the memories of Krk are vivid, and a number of raw files wait to be evaluated and developed. This self-confident tomcat was one of the…
From island to island
Different islands, similar lanterns: Just have a look at Martin Storz’ public eye blog. On Tenerifa he has found a shadow casting lantern, mounted on a skilfully crafted wrought iron arm. My Krk lantern shows splendid clear lines, but I fear this is not caused by the islanders’ love for straight forms (there ceramics at…
Hot days – lively nights
When the days are too hot, life changes to the night. After a buzzing 37°C day, the Camplin, Krk’s main plaza, was buzzing even at 11:00 in the night. I took out my venerable 1,7/50mm lens, and did I praise the Anti-Shake in the camera already? So that photographing lady’s pose got fixed in 1/8th…
Summertime
Today is the 3rd day with temperatures high in the 30th (Celsius), and sitting outside is no real joy if the breeze stops. The good thing is that the internet speed in the campground lobby now is aczeptable – in the evening it reminds more of old 2400 Baud modem times. Picturing heat is not…
Evening Sky, Krk
In the narrow alleys of Krk the shadows of the houses make shure that it does not get unbearable hot (though unbearable is relative, today we had 37°C). However it gets dark pretty soon in the evening down there, and only the windows of the upper floors still catch some daylight or reflect it when…
Red Ship Reflection
The harbour water is not such an attractive medium – oily, smelly and so on, probably the same in every harbour of the world. Amazing enough locals are fishing there, and I guess even that fish is ending on the table. But the reflective qualities of the water are still intact, and the way the…
Fisherman’s Gloves
It is probably a question of personal affinity that I find the fishing boats on the pier in Krk so rewarding in terms of pictures. In spite of the small number of possible positions to photograph from I always find new things worth to be picked out. Even the main winch offered new details again.…
Island of the Shadows
The fine light in the afternoon in the many narrow alleys of Krk brings out shadows of all kind on the walls, which were already subject of a number of posts in the past. Maybe the Solar Electric Mantis was the most prominent example. Here is a more reticent specimen. The electric lines are always…
Krk Elegant Feet
Practising really pays out: I just had 20 minutes after a shopping mission, and those I spent sitting on a low window sill in the main square of Krk, watching the people passing by. In holidays situations, nobody seems to care about a guy with a camera, even with an impressive long zoom. As I…
Resting Fender
The colors of the mediterranean countries in the summer are blue and white, and most famous for this combination are the greek islands. Here in Krk you have to actively look for these iconic colors, I found it in an unusual place, high on the upper deck of a large fish trawler. The setting evening…
Gone Fishing
Not the blue sky nor the blue sea, just the pyramid shape of the young men grouped on the rocks made me take out the camera. A second take of the same scenery shows more context, but alas, the “perfection” of the pyramid is already dissolved.
Game Hall
After a thunderstorm night with not much sleep my spirits returned only in the afternoon. Strolling through Krk town (a small town, really small with 5000 inhabitants) brought us in the evening to a small jetty opposite of the harbour. The beginning of the way was lined with cafes and a game hall, which offered…
Through my Window
Holiday time again, for the daughters there exists only one place eligible for a holiday stay: Krk on Krk. OK – we avoided the traffic jams and travelled on sunday, giving up a precious day for an easy road trip. Still I was tired after 7hrs behind the wheel and threw my hat on the…
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
In the back of my mind there was this sentence “A Rose is a Rose is a Rose”, immediately connecting with this image. Still I was not sure where from I knew the words, thoughts targeting Antoine de Saint Exyperie’s Little Prince… Until google and wikipedia corrected me, nominating Gertrude Stein as the author. But…
Hiroshima Day
A unhappy anniversary is this 6th of August since the year 1945 – in microseconds only the world had achieved a new quality of danger, the danger of total extinction by the press of a button. When I was a teenager, my mother gave me Robert Jungk’s book “Children of the Ashes” as a birthday…
Street Flowers
Westend again. Some of last weeks images (Westend Strip Light, City Life) originate from there, and the streets are always worth a deviation from the shortest way to work. Today I indulged in my bokeh passion again, this time with the long zoom on the camera. A conscious decision for a certain lens influences my…
Bridal Bouquet
When asked to photograph a friends wedding, I felt a bit unsure if it wouldn’t go beyond my capacities. So I made clear that for professional results they would have to hire an experienced pro. In the end they decided to take what I would deliver and I had quite concentrated 90 minutes taking pictures…
Unterach Balcony Light
White walls don’t have to look white. I knew this effect from sunset colorings as well as from mixed light situations, where the same material can look so different depending on the source of light that is reflected. The turquoise cast however caught me by surprise… … until I looked consciously into the water where…
wind
A lazy day at the lake and not much to photograph until I saw the wind play with the leaves of that japanese maple tree (acer japonica). Here in Europe they are quite popular in the gardens because of that wonderful red of their leaves even in the midst of summer. The image alone I…
square architecture, munich
Strolling through the city last week seemed to get my optical receptors going. Both images were shot on the way to/from work. For an unknown reason it is much easier for me to set aside some 20 minutes from the way to the office, knowing that I have to stay longer, then to get up…
virtuoso violinist
The end of the school year regularly sees me at music school concertos. As the daughters decided to learn three different instruments, of course there are three events to visit, and yesterday it was the violin class. It was again a heart warming experience, because from the youngest up to the graduates across all levels…
Climate Change!! Yeah!!
I found this scribbling on a mobile phone advertisement poster in the train station in Munich. To be honest, my colleague found it, I just took the picture again with a short focal length and in a different angle. The slogan of the mobile phone company is “You are not on this world to be…