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.

frizzled

March 07, 2013 in 35, architecture, art, b+w, building, facility, germany, grain, monument, nature, nex 7, old photo, pattern, sel, sepia, shadow, sony, tree, window, salem, branch, wall

the castle garden of salem is a jewel in southern baden's cultural landscape. ancient architecture comes upon aged nature. in the scene above i especially liked the repetitive frizzles of the branches and the decoratively painted window frames.

approach for feeding

March 05, 2013 in 50, art, atmosphere, b+w, backlight, candid, contrast, germany, grain, hair, lake, lake constance, light, minimalistic, nature, nex 7, old photo, people, portrait, sel, shadow, sony, street, sun, hagnau, seagull

finally it's possible to work with backlight again. frontlighting is currently one of my favorite stylistic devices when it comes to composing candid street photographs. there are two, main reasons why very strong and bright backlight seems to be useful for a street photographer: firstly the subjects are often dazzled with the (sun-)light and thereby the people have their own issues to deal with. secondly the backlight makes for very hard contrasts, that support a clear graphical structure in your frame, only if the composition is suitable, of course.

sunset divers

March 04, 2013 in 50, atmosphere, backlight, candid, boat, contrast, fog, germany, landscape, light, mist, mood, nature, nex 7, orange, people, sel, shadow, sky, sony, sun, sunset, water, lake, lake constance, unteruhldingen, reflection, wave, mirror, minimalistic

although i usually don't take the line of rushing, with my today's posting i'm only scratching the surface for once: what a bike ride (after work), what a weather, what a sight, what a sunset and finally what a day!

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...

driving all night

March 02, 2013 in 35, b+w, candid, car, contrast, corridor, darkness, deeper meaning, germany, grain, light, nex 7, night, old photo, sel, shadow, snow, sony, street, winter, truck, blur, action, movement

have you ever thought about the peculiarities of an engagement as a long-distance truck driver? considering the unfavourable boundary conditions i have great respect for this profession. it's not just that the family men are mostly not at home to wake the children in the morning or to put the kids to bed in the evening (like pilots, mariners, soldiers and probably a good many other professionals, too), in return they bring in only very little money. due to the schengen agreement the average wages for truck drivers still decrease since the east european drivers do the same job with less grumble for less money.

madsen's sideshow bassist

February 27, 2013 in 35, atmosphere, b+w, candid, darkness, germany, light, mood, music, nex 7, night, people, portrait, ravensburg, sel, shadow, sony, live, fog, mist, backlight, guitar, contrast

madsen's sideshow guitarist - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/60 — **madsen's sideshow guitarist** - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/60

rockers don't always have to look like these old school rockers.

while the madsen brothers that constitute three quarter of the whole, german indie-rock band madsen, wear their hair pretty short and neat there is this one exception in the composition of the band: niko maurer, the bassist, reminds me of a funny mix of sideshow bob and john travolta.

any way, the show they provided today night, was outstanding and left a big part of the audience - including me - in a jumble of speechlessness and pure joy.

normalised growth

February 22, 2013 in 8, architecture, b+w, corridor, darkness, fisheye, france, landscape, light, nex 7, shadow, sony, tree, trip, walimex samyang rokinon, monument, ruin, nature

today we finally found the time to discover the cote d'azur. it's not that st. tropez or le lavandou thrilled us to a special degree - pretty unspectacular a small ruin near grimaud with a bright view over the hinterland of st. tropez was the daily highlight.

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?

french countryside din(n)er

February 18, 2013 in 35, blue, candid, colour, darkness, light, nex 7, night, sony, street, trip, shadow, sel, dinner, diner, france, sky, tree, fun

france. blue hour, somewhere in the countryside. in search of a venue for dinner we ended up at a arguably typical burger stand what was a completely new area for me: i'd really not expected to find a wheeled fast food restaurant in the middle of nowhere, where moreover for whatever reason a lot of the ordinary restaurants had closed. no idea how they manage to attract ample customers here to keep theirselves above water. all i can say is that the cheeseburgers they sell are delicious. if this is already enough to successfully operate a business i should think about changing the branch.