sleet curtain

March 13, 2013 in 50, architecture, atmosphere, bermatingen, blur, bokeh, brown, building, door, facility, germany, nex 7, pattern, sel, snow, sony, street, townscape, wall, window, winter, wood, rain, timber-frame, countryside, rural

whilst my recent favourite airport frankfurt in the heart of germany is descending into snow and chaos, we will probably get not more than a bit of nasty, wet weather here at lake constance. at least another, highly likely final, opportunity for me to portray the rural appearance of bermatingen's townscape in a winterly atmosphere.

dark corner

March 12, 2013 in 50, architecture, b+w, building, corridor, darkness, facility, grain, mood, nex 7, night, old photo, ruin, sel, shadow, sony, street, townscape, trip, urban, wall, window, portugal, lisbon

at the moment i prepare for my trip to berlin next week. needless to say that besides the actual planning of the main - the day - activities, what is, of course, the most important and time-consuming issue of preparation this week, i already long for the dark side of berlin in my spare time.

let's see how many of the daily 24 hours will be left for wandering about the townscape. till then i delight in a so far not shown street shot from the dark suburbs of lisbon.

swiss traveller

March 10, 2013 in 35, atmosphere, b+w, candid, contrast, darkness, germany, grain, nex 7, night, old photo, people, portrait, sel, sepia, shadow, sony, street, townscape, trip, urban, railstation, friedrichshafen

sometimes travelling people show unusual modes of behaviours. the man in the centre of my today's image carried a very heavy case, which, to his sorrow, had to be hefted upstairs on the platform to reach the trains.

after tina had drawn my attention to his troublesome ascent, i asked him if i can help... he answered with a swiss accent and without even looking at me that it's no problem for him to carry his case by himself. ok, whatever. although i won't go as far as tina, who presumed with a bit of black humour, that he probably carried any parts of dead bodies in his case - hopefully not! - i think, that his autarky has to do with either his attitude towards germany / germans or lived independence in old age.

however that be, i took to him.

guerrilla crural cosy

March 03, 2013 in 35, architecture, blue, building, colour, contrast, fun, germany, monument, nex 7, portrait, sel, sky, sony, street, sun, townscape, urban, winter, art, statue, snow, heiligenberg

why should mankind generally accept that statues get cold legs in the depths of winter? until today i didn't know that guerrilla knitting is common in the country now, too.

“Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.”

— http://en.wikipedia.org

ideal world

March 03, 2013 in 35, architecture, blur, candid, colour, contrast, corridor, darkness, germany, light, nex 7, night, orange, people, sel, shadow, sony, street, townscape, urban, door, building, site, facility

compared to police stations in the centre of a metropolis like berlin the duty officers of idyllic ueberlingen's cop shop may usually spend really smooth hours without larger incidents, even on a friday or saturday night. this may be mainly due to the fact that there is scarcely anybody on the road what on the other hand can be seen as a disadvantage for those who go for busy party districts with a great many people in the street.

btw: once again new images in the galleries...

illuminated space

February 21, 2013 in 35, car, architecture, darkness, light, nex 7, night, pattern, portrait, sel, shadow, sony, street, trip, france, townscape, urban

some things here in france don't make sense to my way of thinking. illegal rubbish dumps, decay and in the most general sense the ravages of time have left their marks on more or less every town here in the countryside. so why, this being the case, should a municipality ever invest in such a wonderfully illuminated, every evening completely unoccupied car park?

0202 - canteen

February 03, 2013 in 35, architecture, blue, car, colour, disco, germany, light, nex 7, night, party, railstation, ravensburg, sel, sony, townscape, urban, winter

canteen - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.0 | ISO1600 | 1/10

it's seldom that the possibility to extend the evening into the night springs suddenly into our minds. however an extensive party night is best if it wasn't planned in advance. the evening was supposed to be only about a great dinner at an indian restaurant but three different bars and some beers later we finally ended at ravensburg's finest disco - the canteen.

1212 - small-town atmosphere

December 12, 2012 in 30, facility, germany, landscape, markdorf, movement, nex 7, orange, partial coloured, rail, red, sigma, sky, snow, sony, suburb, sunset, townscape, vintage, winter

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | f8.0 | ISO100 | 1/6

it's so great to have such a highly compact and portable equipment with you every day. the nex7 together with a second lens and my gorilla pod fit into my daily shoulder bag without any problems.

because of that i'm able to react to almost every given scenery at almost all times. so even longer exposures of (small-) townscapes with moving elements do not cause any difficulties for me.

2411 - transition

November 25, 2012 in 30, abandoned, brown, building, deeper meaning, facility, germany, mannheim, nature, nex 7, partial coloured, sigma, sony, street, suburb, townscape, tree, urban, wall, window

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/1000 | lightroom 4.2

after an evening like yesterday's it's always good to face up to the opposite side of the society. while my girls were insensitively shopping in the rhein-neckar-mall of mannheim-viernheim, i had the time to stroll around the blocks. there weren't many coloured dots to find in the middle of the almost brown and partly abandoned environment.

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f8.0 | ISO100 | 1/200 | lightroom 4.2

the transitions there from the occupied areas to the abandoned and inhospitable ones are hard, immediate and obvious. a suburb of mannheim in the year 2012: plain straight.

cu, trshptr

2211 - closed

November 22, 2012 in 50, architecture, bermatingen, germany, house, light, nex 7, night, sel, sony, street, street lamp, timber-frame, townscape, tree, village, vineyard, window, wine, wine tasting

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/13 | lightroom 4.2

whenever i pass the vineyard of bermatingen i remember the nice wine tasting with our neighbours in spring of 2012. considering that we live in a dedicated wine-growing region, tina and i drink really not a lot of the red or white juice of the grape. theoretically i'd enjoy working up a wine appetite at the local shop by nosing and tasting several sorts of wine.

if i'd only come home earlier more often.

cu, trshptr