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…
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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 whilst most of the old-style attice windows have been replaced by the better…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…
marriage firecracker
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.
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…