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
Hommage to Frank Gohlke
Landscape photography keeps fascinating me, in spite of not finding opportunities to do it myself. Maybe that was good, at least for the past, as I would probably have joined the ranks of superwideangleoversaturatedandsharpenedtodeathmaybeevenpseudohcrheroiclandscape image producers. Frank Gohlke’s book “Accommodating Nature” came just in time (so did the Adams’ “New West”, and even more “Beauty…
Green Bag
Again, communiting provided images. My old habit of always carrying my camera paid off again after quite some dry spell, and as the cold season means less and less available light in the evening, the primes show their qualities even clearer now. The Olympus 25mm (50mm in full-frame terms) I had bought pre-loved last year…
Art on the Platform
Schäftlarn Monastery Chapel
Klosterstraße, Schäftlarn This year’s company outing led us to Schäftlarn Monastery, about 20km south of Munich. The main church is in typical Bavarian baroque style, gladly sought after by many tourists. Personally I found the chapel in the side wing more interesting, as it is showing signs of present usage, and is much less decorated…
Jaggies
Pose of Interest
Small Town Homeliness
THE SCENT
Outside Within
Too much is never enough – October Wallpapers
A genuine truth of our economic system disguised as a truism. And nice to look at! Download it as a wallpaper here!.
Kundl Zen Garden
Coke Transport
Finds on Display
Gold and Silver Dollars
Downtown LHC Outlet
Globes
Behind
Wrought Iron, Bent Wood
After long years of flawless performance (if the wordpress counter is correct, this post is #3002), my hosting provider had a fine surprise for me: A corrupted wordpress database due to a hardware failure sent the blog into hibernation for 2 days. Thanks to an up-to-date database backup, only one post and one comment were…