storm front xaver is currently approaching over hamburg. i'm crossing my fingers, that it won't be as bad as predicted. however today and tomorrow not only the dockland might be closed and definitely more abandoned than on that wonderful day in late october.
glowing forest
late november's upside.
consumption craze
again and again at christmas time our prosperous society becomes addicted to increased consumer stress while people beyond have to cope with misery, sorrow and crisis. it's pretty distracting that one is not able to correct this inequity at all.
lyon
found this one - no fish in non-lyon - in the course of holiday photo sorting and like it very much. have a good weekend all together!
bleak
november dreariness.
into the dark
back to usual business: collecting energy (and light) in the middle of an environment that is again darker than just dark.
out of the dark
i did not touch my camera for almost one week. it was the first time since almost two years now, that i did not devote myself to photography for at least some minutes each day. at the beginning i felt curious, later in the week this feeling yielded the desire for more time and better conditions: these days i both leave for the office and arrive home after work in the dark. this is aggravated by the fact that days in november here at lake constance are usually characterised by grey, dull atmosphere and heavy fog near the ground. following this, i took the opportunity of today's cold and almost clear morning and got out of the dark, out of the man-made structures into the colourful environment of lake constance, at least for some invigorating minutes.
change(,) of course!
in consequence of upcoming bigger changes in my work-life balance a few, also bigger things will be changed here on the blog, too: within the last eighteen months this blog, which was initially set up just to document my learning process in terms of photography, has mutated into an emotional and very personal history log with an attached, nice little portfolio. photography has taken on an important role in my spare time since that point. although pure traffic and wide influence on the scene are not in the centre of my interest, a small, but respectable number of people seems to be firmly attracted by the shown content, since there are at least twenty to sometimes more than two hundred visitors per day here on the website.
as you might appreciate, the requirements on this project here have been redefined and massively extended by me in course of time: despite the current need to cut it fine, my photography shall be lifted onto a new, enhanced level; the next step is due now. although it is scarcely to be expected, that all shown images will be masterpieces from now on just because of my decision to change something, i want to encourage myself and everybody else to deal more intensely with the content. additionally after the wonderful phase of taking mainly nice and mostly beautiful photographs i think about leaving the current path and breaking (for me) new ground. to be honest, i don't know yet, what this intention means exactly. first and foremost there'll be an impact on the frequency of my publications: i probably won't be able to come out with more than one to three posts per week, if i want to devote myself to each dedicated topic.
i'm looking forward to this self-enforced change, that actually won*t be changing that much. and as always i'm going to report my thoughts. cu
marx's trails
had just 5min of stopping by the karl-marx-monument in chemnitz, the second biggest bust portrait in the world. despite the fact, that only the sphynx beats the size of this impressive, socialistic example of architecture, my mate martin seems to be able to shoulder the all the same magnificent and exaggerated sculpture.
hotel life
no daylight for me at the moment.