tobias m. schiel
“Zwischen Baum und Borke” literally means: between the tree and its bark. While Germans can be stuck there, the English would rather be stuck between a rock and a hard place. [Those of you who subscribe to this blog will know that I love those relics of trees; they were photographed in the same area as the two most recent Watching the Game posts.]
Böttcherstraße is said to be a fine example of German Expressionist architecture. This stairwell is my perspective of On Top, the theme of the Weekly Photo Challenge.
Two monuments, not far from where I live – my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge.
Inside? Outside? That’s always hard to tell when you visit a castle ruin…
This nest box has been abandoned … for obvious reasons.
As seen at the Museum of Natural History in Wiesbaden (Naturhistorische Sammlungen im Museum Wiesbaden). The new exhibition focuses on aesthetics rather than the systematic aspects of biology – which I think is different. If you happen to be in Wiesbaden, this museum would be my recommendation for a rainy day. In fact, a friend’s ten-year-old son bears witness to children enjoying it too.
Once in the museum, even animals turn into objects. Should you like to read about the role of photography in establishing objectivity here is book I can recommend: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity.
One solitary tree.
Spielende Hengste (Playing Stallions) by German sculptor Gerhard Marcks. The sculpture was commissioned by a local insurance company in 1962 and donated to the City of Wiesbaden in 1963. It refers to Wiesbaden as a host to the Pfingstturnier, an annual horse race of international scope.
If things pan out as planned, this picture will be part of a larger series called Le città e la memoria (another bow to Italo Calvino) which will explore landmarks, memorials, and some buildings.
This is my second contribution for the Weekly Photo Challenge.
Construction sites always seem to display a kind of transitory architecture, which I think is fascinating. Since this transitory architecture seems to imply a view into the future, I thought this might be an adequate entry for this week’s photo challenge: Future Tense.
In the course of the years, a lot of content has sunk into this blog’s past. While I can let go of some posts without looking back, others still feel valid.
The first idea for excavating older pictures was the introduction of pages. But after discussing design at the Community Pool a homepage with a blog attached to it seemed like a logical step. It puts a bit more emphasis on getting to the pictures.
Plus, I love this theme: Its four column grid is very easy to work with and it offers very clear navigation.
While I think the general idea is already visible, there is still some work ahead of me: Adding featured images to the blogs, adjusting the headlines where they are too long to fit in one line on the Blog page, and adding to the galleries.
I do hope that you all like the new design and stay tuned. Cheers!
This week’s photo theme is “Resolved“, and Sara kindly suggested that the resolution might as well be about our photography: In 2013, I would like to make pictures that are quite abstract – because I just love playing with the pictorial space – yet tell of a story.
So here are pictures I made when I visited the Luftbrücke memorial near Frankfurt Airport. It is my story about a place that reminds us of a transatlantic story (and of a story that tells us how problems can be resolved).
…or should I say Überraschung? This is a contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge – and I might give you a hint at what’s behind the curtains in my next post. As for now, you are welcome to guess…
empire of lights 