street and travel photography
I don’t know, why I can’t see New York in normal colors. Technicolor seems much more appropriate for me. Of course cultural heritage plays an important role in the way you see places or faces. For me, New York is Technicolor, it’s the movies, the musicals which were made in the 50’s or 60’s of […]
Steel Ropes. People seem to be dragged by steel ropes, they are so focused and heading directly towards a certain goal, which has to be worth all the efforts. No way to just stroll around, at least not in Midtown Manhattan. If you insist on your rights a a tourist, then be prepared to press […]
Strange Days. A feeling of numbness in the brain, as if one had stood too long on the skull. And as if the head had gone to sleep like a jammed leg. The day after the election. Three days after the autumn funfair in Cologne Deutz. The sky couldn’t decide wether to turn into a […]
I struggled way too long to decide how I should present my street photography. Should there be a section just with color-pictures? Should I differentiate between the cities (most of them more beautiful than Cologne)? Not to mention the difficulty to decide how many pictures I should present. It seems that reflection can be a […]
I’m not visiting the cemetery every weekend, I am really not. Actually I wanted to go to the forest. But the weather just wasn’t stable enough to risk the long drive. So it had to be the cemetery, just a 15 minutes distance with my bicycle. It was rather cold, the first weekend of autumn. […]
Photography – there is no other art form, where the instrument of creation seems to be even more important than the creation itself. I spend at least as many time visiting websites which analyze old or new photography gear as reading photography books or visiting websites of great photographers. Maybe in the hope of achieving […]
We own a very small house on the island of Samothraki, in Chora, since the 80’s. My mother wanted to buy a rotten building, as big as a donkey’s stall. She purchased the building for little money. Since then, we’ve travelled a lot of times to this island, which appears to me somehow dark, northern, […]
A boat trip on the smooth and dark sea. The small, busy town left behind, I soon see nothing else than the light blue of the sky and the dark blue of the sea. Sensing the bass of the heavy diesel engine. White seagulls painted in the sky. I’m getting tired as soon as I’m […]
‚Escapism‘ most probably will be the first word you associate with the gamer-scene. But what ’scene‘? Video games already moved the masses long ago, and masses also moved to the ‚Gamescom‘ in Cologne. Boys and Girls, and fairly grown-ups, squeezed in the costumes of their beloved heroes in role playing games. They paint their faces, […]
Waiting has a quality on it’s own. The heaviness of a forced break. The dull breath of imposed idleness. Some dramas originated from that, empires vanished. In the best sense waiting is: the abandonment of the own system and the observation of the surroundings, which otherwise is overlooked quite often. Maybe waiting is a necessary […]
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