1711 - dreisam

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/400 | lightroom 4.2

don't know if you have ever had a premonition of what was to come next at some point in your life. today this was the case with me.

unfortunately i wasn't allowed to bring my camera in the concert hall in freiburg where the famous german song writer herbert groenemeyer was performing with his old favs from former times for almost three hours in the evening. already during our journey there i had a vague premonition that my (small) camera bag could make problems and that was how it came that i had to deposit my nex at the wardrobe. despite a bit of initial anger we had a great concert with a lot of songs that weren't played on concerts for a long time.

anyhow, i had already captured a few impressions of freiburg during the afternoon, so that i can compensate the absence of my equipment in the evening for the daily posting with a nice street shot: this guy was waiting, maybe for the bus, on a bridge across the dreisam, the river that crosses freiburg's centre. moreover dreisam is the german word for "in a threesome" and funnily they were three who were waiting side by side.

cu, trshptr

1603 - street art london

setup: canon eos 400d with efs 18-55mm | 18mm | f8 | shot 3 pics in aperture priority | mounted on gorilla pod | exposure values -2, 0, +2 | hdr composed in picturenaut

at the beginning of february 2012 my wife tina, one of my best friends martin, his girlfriend jule and i flew to london for a chill and party weekend.

we walked around most of the time and looked for any kind of interesting location to absorb the atmosphere and learn about the finenesses of london.

as far as i can see eyery city has its own flavor - in 2011 we visited many european cities with great characteristics including bilbao, edinburgh, zurich, glasgow, porto, stuttgart, munich and so on. not any of this has the cosmopolitan flair of london, neither my favorit city hamburg where my wife and i spent four years of our lifes. in return central london can´t afford that real english image - its core is a melting pot like new york, berlin, paris and maybe milan.

So for me the most interesting areas could be found in the suburbs and minor roads.

in one of this "second class roads" next to the waterloo station the city government established an official graffiti area where already banksy had left his marks. i developed this realistic hdr photography for my friend martin because he is such a big fan of street art. on his birthday in the middle of february i gave him a printed book with the best shots from our london trip as a present, the photo above was included.