The harbour water is not such an attractive medium - oily, smelly and so on, probably the same in every harbour of the world. Amazing enough locals are fishing there, and I guess even that fish is ending on the table.
But the reflective qualities of the water are still intact, and the way the ripples dissolve the form of the ships was really amazing.
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please don't think that i am getting cocky because i post two self-portraits in a row - these are 2 out of maybe 5 self-portraits i tried over several years.
when i saw this rare bill of a socialist/marxist group in munich (there aren't many of them left) i knew i wanted to do something with it. alone it didn't shine too much, but as it was sticking to the back of a bus stand, there was not much possibility to add something that would make a picture work. the glass material of the bus stand finally made me try out reflections, but there were not so many people around and time was running. so in the end a self-portrait with the che was all i could make out of this. romanticising mode on: that's not that bad, i think...
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many of the howto-photobooks i have read recommend repeating patterns as a recipe for better pictures. so i couldn't resist this setup (in the science center of salzburg's "house of the nature"). the first pictures with only yours truly as subject were a bit dull, but soon one of the daughters came to look. this was already better, but really good it became when she was joined by her twin sister. aah - and don't think that clothing them equal is a quirk or a deliberate decision of the parents: it is purely a strategy to avoid unnecessary fights for this or that special t-shirt (replace t-shirt with pants, sweater and so on, ad nauseam).
with the colors i am still not completely content, but the color cast from the green walls was so strong that i couldn't find a better correction without loosing that green, which in itself is a strong component of the picture.
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the way home from office in munich invariably leads my steps along a hairdresser's shop on one of the main roads, and the light and reflections as well as the colors are always interesting. this window was already subject matter for this post, but this time i caught the barber in action.
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the prospect is wet: meteorologists predict heavy rainfall for my hometown, up to 100mm within 24 hours, which means flooding of many secondary roads and potential damage to the railways, too.
in the long term, i guess it's better to get used to weather extremes as this might be the future: the climate change will come not as a steady increase of temperatures but as more unstable weather conditions that challenge the vital infrastructure. but probably in a week or so the cat will dance on a hot tin roof again.
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after a long dry period with excellent weather for easter, today the first spring rain set in, and i expect the leaves now to really shoot out of the twigs. rain plus twilight plus neon ads made up for a nice reflection on the plaster here.
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it seems that i start to enjoy turning down saturation more and more. the weather was grey, daytime was busy, no fresh shots but still some old ones deserving to be evaluated and worked upon. in my eyes it's not a disadvantage of shooting raw that i have to re-judge my images again when deciding which one to convert and edit, it's a bit like old-fashioned black and white darkroom work: it made and makes no sense to mechanically convert/develop because the results were and are average at best.
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my daughters were invited by a classmate for a birthday party in salzburg airport center's burger king, and i did prefer not to stay. hence the title (which is an adaption of moscow art trio's "instead of making children", a worthy recommendation for you jazz fans out there), and my mood then was comparable to today's when i did my tax declaration.
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it seems that the history of the chinese emperor's regime is in an adapted way now repeating: legions from the working class are doing low paid jobs whilst a small number of highest class are enjoying boundless wealth. The abundant treasures of the forbidden city reminded me immediately of b. brecht's poem "who built thebes with its seven gates?".
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no narrative text today, this image i value just because of its graphical values in terms of colors, distribution of areas and lines. hope you enjoy it, too.
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feasting in red was a major attraction in the past holidays. here are two last images, the upper one really grabbed me with its strong forms. red is a major signal color with its own significance in the human perception system, and it is a rare color in my habitat (of course these facts are connected, an abundant color could not have that signalling capacity). here in old europe, especially in the bavarian countryside almost nothing is painted in bright red, and cars that are have a decent 'show off' quality and therefore get despised.
krk harbour is a busy place. during the day dozens of leasure boats fill the air with their noise, the sound of alternatively diesel or 2-stroke fuel is abundant. but what a bonanza in reflections, color patches, harmonious forms it is, especially early in the morning. stay tuned - there is more of it to come.
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yesterday was commuting day. spring in the city is so different and, at least for me, partially depressing when the songs of the birds mingle with the traffic noise. but optically it has it's merits, translating trees into patterns, creating trompe l'oeil like bird silhouettes, bending straight lines, mixing coating colors of the glass with the most wonderful blue of the sky (bavaria, you may know, is very proud of its skies)
unfortunately. especially for my kids.
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I had looked at this facade quite often during day- and nighttimes as the offer a rich play of effects - just see onion spire, reloaded
Whilst the moving body parts in the gym windows of the first floor don't really lend themselves for a (static) photograph, the reflections do so quite well.
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i already had worked on this picture in color, but when finally deciding to try a b&w conversion it turned out much stronger.
work done in lightzone for linux
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this is an emblematic picture for the governing period of the still-in-charge bavarian premier e. stoiber. he was harvesting the fruits of an ongoing change since the end of ww2 in bavaria from a rural and somewhat backward country to a modern habitat for hi-tec companies.
the onion spire on the clocktower was almost a badge for bavarian villages, and now the antennas for mobile services are the new hallmarks.
brave new world...
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that rain lasted for a whole week. getting accustomed to the noise of raindrops on the trailer roof, I slowly adjusted myself to it. And sometimes, the rain made up for a really pretty scenery.
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