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.…
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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…
westend strip light
strange – some small areas turn out to be real photographic bounties whenever you walk through. the ‘westend’ is a quarter, formerly located at the western end of the city, but now quite near to the center, that was traditionally a lower-to-middle class quarter. some decades ago quite a number of immigrants mixed under the…
bokeh locomotive
these images, created while commuting in the rain, might have also fit martin storz’ always-take-the-weather project on his blog ‘the public eye’, but i decided to show them here as part of my bokeh mini-series. and for martin i will try to create a sunny weather image, given that we get such a thing in…
city bokeh, munich
since i bought my first dslr in 2005 i am lusting for a 1.4/85mm lens just to indulge in my passion for shallow dof and fine bokeh. for the minolta a-mount, taken over by sony without modifications, this lens is available in zeiss brand for a zeiss price and used in a variety of minolta…
travellers in upcoming storm
travelling home last week I was really p***ed: again the fast train from munich was late and the connecting train was gone when we arrived. such is the service of the deutsche bahn. my bad mood prevailed for quite some time, proportional to the non-facilities of the province railway station that freilassing is. it was…
city life
if you think ‘what a antagonism, yesterday traditional costumes and today such a urban scenery’ then you are right. but life in bavaria can be like this. my hometown with 18.000 inhabitants is just 2 train hours away from munich with its 1.3 millions, of which 30% have a migration background. and whilst i do…
marchin’ feet and costumes
in the course of such a long event there are enough occasions to concentrate on the details. the chokers i’ve shown some days ago would be worth a photo essay of their own, and so could be the marchin’ feet together with the lower parts of the costumes. those half socks, covering only the calfs,…
gamsbärt’ and real men
the ‘gamsbart’, literally chamois beard, is a tuft of chamois hair worn as a hat decoration. needless to say that the size of this thingie closely correlates with the wealth and influence of its owner. it is definitely *not* made of the hair of a beard as chamois don’t have one, unlike goats, but from…
brass bands marching
bavaria generally and the traditional mountain costume associations (what a monster expression, we just say ‘trachtler’) especially are inseparably connected with brass music. only at indoor events, we call it ‘hoagascht’, guitar, zither and hammer dulcimer replace the wind instruments. clear shapes and reflections of course make those brass units very photogenic. musically the bands…
chokers
the translation of ‘kropfband’ – the traditional necklace these women are wearing – as choker made me mistrust the various online dictionaries, as in my ears this sounds a bit weird. but as they all agree, who am i to dissent. focusing on the chokers proofed to be difficult when the groups were marching, so…