When we left the plane in Thessaloniki a couple of weeks ago we had to make a COVID 19 test. Luckily the result was negative, so we left for the Greek island of Samothraki 10 days later after staying at my sisters house. In my baggage: a Leica M6 with a 50mm Summarit 2.4 lens, […]
Schlagwort: summer
Stories of November Storms
Manchmal sind es vor allem Geschichten, die Bilder machen. Als uns die Gastgeberin in Ploemeur von den schweren Stürmen erzählte, die im November über die Küste gehen, stand die Szenerie schon fest, obwohl es ein wirklich schöner Nachmittag im Juli war. Pigeon English under the Pictures (all taken with a mobile phone). i Sometimes it’s […]
Remembering last Summer – Greek Islands: Syros
I visited the island of Syros in the 80’s. Sometime in March. Grey sky, scratched sea. We took the first accommodation they’ve offered us. A souterrain room, a cold and clamp wind whistled by the only window which faced the dooryard. The weathered charme of the proud, once rich port city Hermoupolis, still the capital […]
Blinded by the light – Syracuse, Sicily
Imagine a place, where you leave the hotel room in the morning and are being blinded by the light. It’s hard to imagine these days, at least in Cologne, Germany, but that’s exactly why I want to remember it. Syracuse in Sicily, in summertime 2016. Of course we haven’t seen all places in beautiful Sicily, […]