ehekracher – marriage firecracker – is the title of the advertisement for a theater comedy glued to the pole. the lady next to it seems a bit puzzled about this title, too. at least her glance could be interpreted in this way.
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sign boards in laufen
laufen at the salzach river tries hard to keep history vivid, the shown signboards are just a small excerpt of these efforts.the encroachment of public space with the various monstrosities that you find in bad reichenhall and many other places does not take place here. of course, the wish to make business here as everywhere…
safety attendant waiting
in the countryside, the volunteer fire brigade is on duty at many official events, too. last weekend, two cities at both sides of the german-austrian border, laufen and oberndorf, arranged their two cities course for runners of all age groups over a track of 6km, and the volunteer fire brigade was responsible for the safety.…
door of maria büchel
this wooden ornament decorates the door to maria bühel, a pilgrimage church dating back to the 17th century. located not far away from the holy-night-chapel in oberndorf, austria, it is a quiet place, not getting that tourist attention as the former one. the architecture and the baroque paintings in the inside are marvellous, and i…
blue wall, laufen
spring time all around, today with matching weather. probably this season makes many of us sensitive for fresh and intensive colors. at least it did with me, and the family excursion to the small town of laufen remunerated me with this symphony in blue.
heating to remove from the resin
shop windows can tell a lot about the owner. in the case of this jeweller, i often saw pieces a bit off the mainstream of a sanitarium’s offerings. it turned out the owner still works as a goldsmith, immediately behind the shop windows. my question to come and take some pictures was answered positively. when…
munich terminus, track 6
grey sky in the morning, but the cranes formed an interesting pattern. Seeing it in large reveals some minuscule red lights of the signals, nice counterweights for the mainly blue tones.
karlspark tree
there are shots that belong together (like my moon diptych, but also the landscapist does it, and carl weese recently published shots of a yellow suv/green wall that could be seen as belonging together), and so it’s just consistent to frame them together. trees have been and are a favourite subject of mine, maybe inherited…
waiting for the spectacle
it seems that i start to enjoy turning down saturation more and more. the weather was grey, daytime was busy, no fresh shots but still some old ones deserving to be evaluated and worked upon. in my eyes it’s not a disadvantage of shooting raw that i have to re-judge my images again when deciding…
sludge or: winter wants to stay
the sludge in our driveway became the material for some experimenting with the saturation level: how much of color saturation can you remove and it still remains a color picture, giving a different expression than a real conversion to black and white. it was astonishing how far i could go. but winter does not want…
vamping up tradition
rainlight saving time started today. ‘dis is a well thought out marketing idea of some leasure outfits lobbyists, nothing else. as bavaria is really strong in traditions, we had our easter egg fountain this year again, with more than 4000 hand-painted eggs. closer inspection leaded to the conclusion, that guinness beer now got incorporated into…
hometown monstrosities in color
taking up carl weese‘s question and implicit suggestion to present in color what gets it’s ugliness through color. and note to self: stick with either portrait or landscape if you want to make it a series. a lesson i should have already learned from my krk images…
fallen trees
trees are a for me a symbol for beeing deeply rooted, constant, connected with this planet. always sad to see them fallen, the more so when snow reveals details that could be assumed as remnants of their struggle. i am constantly learning to make use of even small slices of time for photographing. the price…
rilke’s panther is a jaguar here
going to the zoo still is fun for the younger kids, but leaves me more unhappy than ever. his gaze, going past those bars, has got so misted with tiredness, it can take in nothing more. he feels as though a thousand bars existed, and no more world beyond them than before. the full text…
spring behind the curtains
slowly slowly it seems to come. the air is still cold most of the time, but the sun already powerful. still the salvia plants have to remain in the house, but this way they make a nice, promising pattern. today’s second shot is the church of maria plain, next to salzburg. and while i like…
here comes the sun
ok, april is the month for fast changing weather conditions. not yet april? don’t mind, let’s just enjoy the sun.
rock me, amadeus
our spa gardens exhibit quite a number of contemporary art pieces, mostly sculptures. normal, not accentuating lighting situations don’t help to bring attention to those, and for some the place chosen is simply uninspired. yesterday’s snow however made the scissor-type portrait of a violinist (guess it’s mozart, he is (ab-)used everywhere here for public relation…
snowy snowy trees
spring again got defeated when after a cold night snow set in. whilst i am no fan of grey sludge on the streets, the graphical effect of the thin snow layer on the still leafless tree had its merits. so i took what was there as long as it was there. not much postprocessing, some…
munich, thiersch-place
grateful i am for the fact that my job leads me out of the countryside into the big city (munich) every week. in spite of the ww2 destructions, many places are still or again intact, and a lot of substance has survived the centuries. the councillors follow a quite strict no-scyscrapers policy, on the one…
commuting speed king
carl weese made me rethink my decision to convert my hometown monstrosities to black and white. yep – the german saying that someone has tomatoes on his/her eyes seems fit here: i was so concentrated on that wideangle effect and the dynamic lines that i just did not pay attention to the subject: overdone color…
if you happen to come through munich
a treasure not only for the photgraphically inclined, but probably also for art business happened to be hidden in an innsbruck basement: the original pictures of magnum’s first exhibition, 1955, fittingly titled ‘magnum’s first’. cartier bresson’s images of his session with mahatma gandhi, only hours before his assassination, are there, followed by the immensely powerful…
hometown monstrosities
this i wanted to do for a long time already: portray the pollution of my hometown’s pedestrian zone with plastic surrogates of the old roundabout, blatantly constructed to empty the pockets of parents not able to fight the whining and grouching of their progeny, offering 87 sec of brrrrm or high pitched voices together with…
faucet in the pump room
back to my roots – back to b&w. paul lester&squot;s post never have a favourite weapon made me think about the influence of my preferences and the development of my photography. black and white were my photographic origins as a student, and some of those pictures i still do regard very high. now b&w is…
“don’t throw anything out of the window”
the dull light of todays afternoon could not motivate me to go out shooting, instead i spent some time with scribus, familiarizing myself with the sofobomo requirements to layout my pictures in a harmonic way. the image shows pictograms on a train window, taken at this weeks commute to munich. i always carry my camera…
the new synagogue in munich
my first disappointment about the shots from the new synagogue in munich proved to be premature. scrutinizing the raws, in found the above one combining the massive, block-like quality of the building not only with the light emanating from the entrance door in the foreground, but also with the movement of the lady just in…