Two Bikes
Ads in the Underpass
Paul-Heyse-Unterführung, Munich In the comments section of yesterday’s post They’re coming!, Uwe mentioned that my images from Munich and Berlin differ significantly, and this got me thinking. I grew up in Munich, so the view on my former hometown certainly is biased, but the occasions for photography are differing, too: In Berlin I am wandering,…
Trees, Fences
Mellow Yellow
Thumsee Afternoon (Back)Light
Curtains made of Leaves
Bike and Sumach
Trees / Leaves
Urban trees usually are less spectacular than their counterparts in a national park, and there end usually is not slow decay, providing a biotope for many animals, but the teeth of a chipper. Nonetheless the provide plenty of occasions for seeing and thinking.
Fallen Larch Tree
There are many people loving the outdoors, who feel a special affection towards trees, and I am certainly one of them. In the Berchtesgaden National Park, where I found this old larch, the woods are developing back to their natural state (given the hunters can keep the numbers of bud-eating deers and roes in tolerable…
Downtown Fall
Today I helped a retiring friend, photographer by profession, to clear his office. His collection of negatives struck me with awe, also the amount of work it took to file all his images – and the space they take. A historian friend of his will go through all these photographs (plus those of his father…
Gallery Opening
Some posts ago, I mentioned the upcoming exhibition of our ‘photo group’, which is a part of the adult education facility here in my hometown. The event took place last Saturday evening, with a good crowd attending and even a photographer/writer of the local press present. As it is a group exhibition under the theme…
Another Birch
Sad enough that a quiet image fits those days so much. That last days of fall foliage, before the long awaited rain should set in, gives a very special mood. Dryness has alread sucked a good part of the color from the leaves, the sun rises late in the valleys, ice crystals reflect a lot…
Last Birch Leaves
Acer Japonica
Pre and post the first frost. Fall came late this year, up to now it was unusually warm and dry. Not only fall, but the whole summer – it remains to be seen if winter compensates in terms of temperature and precipitation.
Trees on the Basin Ground
Another series that is on the shortlist for the exhibition. Selecting becomes somewhat easier as soon as I can hold a physical object, shift it on the floor and see it in correlation with others. The screen is no match for that kind of experiencing images.
Bare Basswood
Recently I had a short email exchange with the the Profligatographer regarding the preferred focal length/angle of view. He told me that he just recently came to enjoy that “normal” angle of view while having used almost exclusively moderate wide-angle-lenses before. And this was not uncommon, as there were such dedicated wide-angle photographers even before:…
Gingko Gold
Cool November Wallpaper
Somewhat white-bread, but wallpapers should be easy to look at. Here you get an impression of Germany’s coldest lake, Frillensee on a cold November morning. Download it as a wallpaper here!.
Red Sediments
Green etc.
The common green tones in many of my images of the dried Saalachsee basin tempted me to try some formal experiments in the sequences, like here the increasing aspect ratios to introduce a bit of a tension between the images, trying to seduce the viewer to give another thought to the question why the images…
Utilities Corridor
Weed and Driftwood
On the Basin Ground
Wandering the basin ground on a late Sunday afternoon showed patterns and subject matter otherwise invisible. The time- and area-wise proximity of the images of course suggests a quadriptych, but regarding the squares I was hesitant at first. In the end my preference for strict formalism won over, I found it the less distracting way…
Saalach Dam Lake
100 years back, building dam lakes was state-of-the-art to protect settlements from flooding and to produce electrical energy. What was not completely known (or thought after) at this time was the necessary amount of stones as bedload that the downstream parts of the river now were deprived of. Calculations indicate that 40.000 metric tons would…
Schäftlarn Maedows
