Taken during today’s Good Friday stroll. We all have deserved the holidays, a kind of exhaustion is visible even in the kids. But sun and warm weather should be good recovery media.
Spring Stroll
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Spring Takes a Break
The rain today even got interspersed with snowflakes, and so it was everything else but springtime feeling. The coffee tables outside took a break, and so I will do.
Zweifussgänger
The title of course is an hommage to Otto Steinert and his famous “Einfussgänger”, here on artnet. I did not much postprocessing in bibble5, just a careful enhancement of the red color of the shoes. In retrospect it seems like a wonder to me that I managed to frame this so perfectly that any further…
Administrative Building Interiors
Today I spent some time in the corridor of an administrative building, waiting in vain for a meeting. Such an environment in literature usually is described in words that try to express absolute and ultimate bleakness, and I admit that this is really not the best way to spend one’s time. But in wise providence…
Working with the Enemy
A sufficiently high Cetirizin-level made me somewhat airy, and so I approached the enemy armed to the teeth with my 28/1.8 lens. And even the enemy has it’s beautiful sides, inviting golden colors, soft texture and so on. BUT it will remain the enemy as hazel and friends start to torture me sometimes as early…
From a Display
Today was confirmation celebration, and of course all confirmands had to pose on the stairs of our church for the obligatory group photo done by the local photographer. Not beeing pressed for high quality or official results, I had my fun with all those family members that crowded and pointed and shot like mad. Only…
Spring On Sale
Running errands the whole day, occasions for photography were rare, but sufficient for one spring image: at least in the shop displays we are offered a colorful spring. In the wild circumstances are different with night temperatures down to 2°C and tulips still hiding in the earth. Snowdrops are abundant, as are Corydalis (I didn’t…
Waiting Foot
The morning sun is already golden, promising warm days to come. Life sometimes shows its swell sides. A happy weekend to all!
Weak Spring Sun
At noon it already got really warm, but the angle of the sun is still shallow and well before sunset the intensity of light and warmth decreases fast. The forests on the mountains – here the south slope of Mt. Staufen – are still in almost the same state as in autumn, no fresh green…
Playing with Shapes and Colors
Being 5 minutes early for the morning bus gave me a small time slice to see and play. Interesting enough the result corresponds quite a bit with Carl Weese’s post “Thumbs up”, which I don’t remember to have actively seen before taking this photograph of mine.
Li’l Composer
Rehearsing an instrument is not always a joyful time for a kid, and therefore the moments where the music grabs the mind and inspires the phantasy are even more precious. When this happened and she grabbed music paper and a pencil, I was happy to have the camera at hand, and even more happy to…
Blue Box
I found no rational explanation why someone would care to paint a box in blue color, if this box is meant to be left on the roadside next to the forest. With more phantasy of the author of detective stories, one could probably make up a mysterious story beginning with such a blue box. For…
Net House
Beginning of spring was grey around here, which I didn’t mind as it kept my allergy at bay. I had my own kind of fun (a weird kind as my daughters would say) with the nets covering the facade of an old building of the Saline, which is currently renovated. Those subdued colors and the…
Alpine Architecture, Memorial
Once upon a time there was a benevolent state government, distributing all the fresh money that inundated the country as a consequence of the boom years and the transition from a poor agrarian to a well-of post-industrial state, and many the towns in this stated decided to build natatoria, ice stadiums and tennis halls. It…
Foot Stompin’
I admit that I got distracted during today evening’s music school concierto. But it’s not my fault: most of the time the faces of the artists were hidden behind their music stands, so the vision-oriented parts of the brain concentrated on what was left (and fitting in the viewfinder). That’s the reason.
Snowfall in Traunstein
Winter seems to be coming through an end, but last week there was more than enough snow. What make me dig out that shot were the two trees in the front yard, so perfectly framing the entrance. The same stunning orb shape I found in the trees outside Freilassing train station (my weekly commuting hub).…
More Frozen Thumsee
Although the weather indicates the end of ice and snow here – at least of the semi-permanent stuff – I want to share a last image of frozen Thumsee with you. This image create a kind of conflict in me: Usually I restrict myself to very limited operations in postprocessing, kind of the wet darkroom…
Snake in the Lake
Thumsee is the home of many grass snakes (or ring snakes, natrix natrix), which find enough protected areas to hunt for prey and raise their breed. But now of course they all rest, usually in dry caves or piles of rotten leaves. But their “gestalt” stays vivid in the shape of some old, half drowned…
Thumsee, Melting Ice
Since some days the temperatures are slowly rising, the snow mixes with rain and the ice on the lakes and ponds changes sound and color: the sound gets powerless, foul and the color undecided, the reflectivitiy is lost. Definitely signs for the end of the winter, even if the snowdrops are still invisible in most…
Cafe Schatz, Salzburg
Located in a “Durchhaus”, probably best translated as a combination of passageway and courtyard, is the Cafe Schatz in Salzburg. From all the Cafes – and as a coffeine addicted I do know many – this seems to be one of the eldest and most traditional ones in Salzburg. The coffee is great, so is…
Christmassy Easter-Eggs
I found these in Salzburg. The center of this town is so attractive for tourists from all parts of the world, that they have a shop selling Christmas decoration throughout the whole year. But to top this, they’ve invented easter eggs with Santa on it. That’s what I’d call real creativity and serving their customers.…
Warm it’s only Inside
Having packed up work, it’s almost dark again, especially when thick clouds dim the little daylight even more. This matches the winter’s cold, and it makes the warm light out of the windows even more attractive. The best time to see and capture this is twilight, just before the street lights get switched on and…
Robots in Standby
Estimating how often I had passed by this arrangement of cute robots (water and electricity dispensers) in the train station of Freilassing, where I change trains when commuting to work, lead to a figure in the thousands. Don’t ask me why it took so long until I realised this image. One explanation – the one…
Windshield Wipers
A quiet, snowy image again, after the last two more lively ones. I love the repeting forms here, not only of the wipers, but also the arcs, beginning from the canopy to the right, repeated in the bushes, over the cleft in the snow to the roofs of the small cars. Definitely not surprising as…
Further Push-Up Needed?
“Sizzling Silhouette” would have been a headline matching the ad for an “Erotic Trade Fair” even better, but Debra from A Passion in Frames had already used it for her post of today. Maybe take it as an encouragement to look in her blog.