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…
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…
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…
“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.
One of the results of a lunchtime stroll. No story behind, just delight about that blue-white combination. You can’t always resort to greek islands for this color combination, so I decided to take what I could get.
Photography is not in highest esteem by everybody, but the people in my surroundings are accustomed to my switching to a cyclopean life-form from time to time. And the kids, so I thought up to yesterday, should see it as perfectly normal as they know about my hobby/obsession/… But my daughter was cringing when she…
Thoreau’s Walden for sure is not on everybody’s reading list over here, but the craving for the “genuine” life out there in the woods seems to become stronger with every degree of civilisation’s comfort and amenities. My snowstorm images of the last days finally got distilled into a new small gallery, here.
This morning I had 15 minutes after having dropped wife and kids at their respective schools. Without gloves and cap, I was glad that the time was limited as my hands were numb afterwards. But I enjoyed the play of the snowflakes and the intensified effect of aerial perspective, so these 15 minutes were really…
Today morning’s snowfall managed again to cast a spell on our garden. And besides the optical merits, it made me happy on a different level: All those hazel and alder pollen that had started to pollute (see that unison?) the air and made me announce my arrival wherever by loud and unstoppable pollinosis-induced sneezing: Now…
Found in Vienna’s Westbahnstrasse, this abandoned shop probably waits for renovation. The handwritten sign in the window states the retirement of the shopkeeper. Deducing from the fancy tilework on the floor, this shop probably has been run for many decades without major reconstruction. But probably these tile’s future now is a very limited one.
Sitting in the bus, peering through the front window, I suddenly had this feeling that the scenery of red lights in front of me might unfold into an image worth recording. Some quick fiddling brought out the camera of the backpack, luckily with the 1.8/28mm lens alread mounted, and I took the first shot without…
Matching to the return of grey winter weather, not only here but also in the new world, like in Woodbury. Here is an image that was taken outside the Museum of Modern Art in Salzburg, Austria. Even without the works of art inside the museum, this place should be on everyone’s agenda when coming to…
Too tired after a long working day I just want to share this image with you, found in the shut-down peat factory of Ainring.
Found in a staircase ’round here. Speaks to me as my own wanderlust is on the back burner and lives on GEO articles – the sustainable variant, albeit not a fulfilling one. Update: The wallpapers for March 2010 are now online. Check here
In early spring the forest shows convincingly its linear structures. The verticals are self evident, consisting of the stems, but what I discovered was the complementation of those verticals by arcs, horizontal lines and diagonals. Have a look yourself at today’s small gallery here.
Contemporary architecture in Vienna seems to mix effortlessly with all the well restaurated buildings from the k.u.k. times, and even the extreme examples like the Museum of Modern Art above convince (me) with their intransigence and their presence. This certainly is a field, in which my 2nd hometown, Munich, is falling behind substantially. The Automobility…
The doors of Vienna provide sufficient subject matter probably for many days of photography, and even in the small number of hours that allowed me to visit a really little part of this city, I found more than suitable for series of postings. So I will probably make a small gallery, which also meets my…
A business trip to vienna gave me the opportunity to stroll through this beautiful city for some hours. My old obsession for doors found sufficient visual food here, but additionally the entrance halls behind the doors provided some wonderful sceneries. And luckily enough I turned around to enjoy the opposite vista as well. More doors…
Ok, that was a narrow escape: handling a camera in the hospital’s waiting room while the best wife of all sits there with a luxated thumb, waiting to get x-rayed, *can* lead to a serious conflict. Lucky man that I am, it didn’t… But this dragon tree (dracaena draco), barely surving the lack of light…
Found in my hometown, where usually naked bottoms don’t get wiped in open public… Photographed in raw, converted in bibble5 with the Andrea plugin set to Tri-X, fine-tuned in gimp as bibble5 currently doesn’t support the perspective correction plugin. Other than that, it’s just having the camera at hand and reasonably pre-set.
Morag Paterson and Ted Leeming recently published an article on Luminous Landscape, titled The Light Fantastic – Capturing the Inner Sense of the Scottish Landscape. The image above is from their website leeming + paterson. This certainly is a special approach to landscape photography, away from what you might now from Charlie Waite or Ian…
I beg your pardon for that abrupt change of topics, let me assure that it’s not done on purpose. It’s just the fate of a family father and hobby photographer, who tries to see and photograph the special things wherever he goes, but cannot always follow his preferences – let’s say for quiet, mystic landscapes.…
Again from Thumsee, the magic place. The water of this lake is cold and very clear even in the summer, and now in the winter time the reflections on the jet black surface are just magical. Just to show you what it is like in the summer. And no, I don’t really suffer from winter’s…
Whilst downtown masquerade is the trend of the moment, only 5km out of town you can find incredibly quiet and almost achingly pure moments, like this ice on Thumsee. I created some more images today, but in my eyes nothing could match this quiet pattern of ice, hoarfrost and water. With this image I send…
With the Schengen treaty, de facto ending border controls for traffic inside the European Union, the advertising at the German-Austrian border for the casinos of Salzburg and other places lost most of its attention factor – no car has to wait here any more. The buildings of the former checkpost as well as this one…