another small series from the rosserer pilgrimage. btw: rosserer is austrian/salzburg dialect for horse breeder. fascinating for me here was the surface of the instrument. usually you see high gloss, like in the last shot, but this guy’s bass tuba did not pretend to be new and without blemishes. it looked old, well used and…
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rosserer pilgrimage maria plain
the traditional horse breeders’ pilgrimage from salzburg and surroundings to the church of ‘maria plain’ (see the 2nd image in this post) took place in marvellous weather. as a father of 3 girls, anything horse related of course is an attractive goal for an excursion, and hoping for photographic opportunities of course i did not…
raw power
no, i won’t bore you with this topic here again. but raw power this is, the power of the green weißbach waters (which is kind of oxymoronic as weißbach means white creek) cascading down in their canyon. having worked quite a while on this picture i am still not completely satisfied. i think i managed…
green weißbach waters
is there a life outside the raw (file)? probably there is. and i do know, yes, that the eye of the photographer is important for the picture, her or his feeling for composition, balance and all those factors that have to be considered in “the moment it clicks”. but all this fiercely defending the jpeg…
canyon beech
a big advantage of the (pre-)alpine region i am dwelling in is the long duration of spring you can get by moving just a little bit. whilst the petals of the apple trees now lay in the street of my hometown, washed down by the rainfall of the last 3 days, just 10km to the…
the old espalier
strolling through my surroundings (more often by bike now, trying to save co2 emissions) with the camera can be a real eye opener. the well known places reveal new aspects, details that i saw but did not cherish, and the sequence of development becomes more tangible (given that photons are tangible at all) because i…
train of remembrance
the state-run german railway (“reichsbahn” at that time) played a supportive role in the murderous policies and actions of the third reich’s holocaust, transporting the victims – many children among them – into the concentration and extermination camps. the privately organized “train of remembrance” now travels over all the tracks that led to those camps.…
applied macchiavellism
can’t help it: as a pupil this facade of your school just serves one duty: make you feel small, confronted with such uniform power. of course didactics inside this building have changed now, and every year dozens of girls successfully finish their education, but the outside still breathes the spirit of past centuries where the…
horse’s paradise
spring time makes the spirits rise, and of course martin luther’s proverbial apple tree as a symbol of undestroyable hope makes the apple tree and it’s blossoms well suited for an allegorical image. this horse (you may remember it from this post) certainly has found a paradise garden. so today i rode my bicycle to…
shadows on the wall
regarding the right balance ilan remarked tongue-in-cheek ‘The most brilliant artists, are those who were unstable ;)’. undeniably, great works of art were created by borderline artists, and the world would be poorer without those pieces. in my humble opinion however, this is a role model that is connected with quite some drawbacks not only…
the right balance
biking itself is not the most important thing when going with the kids. this bog did not offer the frog spawn we were hoping to find, but the 2nd fallen tree was good for taking off the shoes and balancing over the water (the 1st broke under the weight of the testing father…). finding the…
accidental discovery
not that I like those overly vivid toys, but in the backlight… i found this image going through my archives to add lacking keywords. 12000+ pictures without keywords don’t make too much sense, so i try to add at least place names, sometimes persons and subject types to support my not-so-excellent memory. my 76 years…
sleeping beauty
the spa district of bad reichenhall sported one beautiful villa next to the other, some used as early hotels, but many more just expression of the taste and wealth of their owner. those times are long ago, and the wave of renovation of the last 50 years has spared some places. depending of the financial…
entrance door, kirchberg castle
the castle of the bad reichenhall district ‘kirchberg’, in the vernacular dialect lovingly called ‘schlössl’, is the cradle of the spa activities of my hometown. dating back to 1130, it originally served as an estate. changing owners led to various utilisations, and in 1723 it got rebuilt in the now visible baroque form. in the…
monet hiding in my lens
the quality of the viewfinder was *the+ critical argument for my first dslr – wearing glasses, a high eyepoint makes a big difference. but even the good finder of my current camera didn’t show me recognizably what this shot would look like later on – the blurs of color, dabbed over the background like from…
spring springs to life
sorry, i simply had to use this pun now. the light at the moment is gorgeous, especially if the sky is scattered with clouds and the backlight is less pungent and more revealing. even the lens flaws (my not-often-enough-used tamron 11-18) and the raw conversion problems don’t stop me to include the direct sun in…
stalkin’ the light
i guess is what the landscapist might label it, but i can’t help: this is part of bavarian pittoresque, like it or not. 10min by bike from my home, the farmers of “schleicherhof” accomodate guests and care for their fruit orchard and their horses. the farmhouse is situated at one of the most scenic points…
past glory and nowadays beauty
another trip back into bad reichenhall’s glorious past: the karyatides of the entrance to one of the best hotels back in the ending 19th century. bad reichenhall was so famous in these days that even a bavarian king came there for 5 weeks. the spa offered healing of respiratory problems by inhalating brine dispersed by…
property entails obligations
in search of the remnants of the prosperous times of my hometown – we are going to celebrate 850th birthday as a town this year – i am consequently strolling through the older quarters here. the different balcony grids grabbed my attention. whilst most of the old-style attice windows have been replaced by the better…
“work and buy, pay taxes and die”
folk wisdom has it – there is nothing to add. found on a house near river saalach, next to the village of Schneizlreuth. i am a bit insecure about the translation, the first word “schaff” could also be translated as ‘create’, but the rhythm and flow then is a bit off.
rainy reflection
after a long dry period with excellent weather for easter, today the first spring rain set in, and i expect the leaves now to really shoot out of the twigs. rain plus twilight plus neon ads made up for a nice reflection on the plaster here. and as everybody is glad about the end of…
rooftop spa
when i started photography roughly 30 years back, lenses with a focal length of more than 300mm were regarded as professional tools only and priced like this. today aps-c digital slrs with their crop factor of 1.5 plus the development in the area of long telezooms offer the possibilities to use a 450mm-e lens (the…
roof garden
a colorful island in all the matt roofs was this small garden with the forsythia in full blossom. spending a morning or evening hour up here for sure is exhilarating when you have to live and work the whole day confined in a building. happy easter to all of you, and colorful months like those…
salzburg fata morgana
the light in salzburg was great this morning and the vision almost unreal. walking too long over mönchsberg for sure caused sore feet….
shareholder value’s truth
admittedly with a considerable delay econonmical considerations took over also in the bavarian state forest. whilst savings on staff costs and less supervision and support of private forest owners pretty quite strictly follow advices of a management consultancy, the admittance of does and deers remains pretty much regulated according to pre-democratic governing principles: as the…