Contributing to this week’s photo challenge.
Tag: Abstract Photography
Flying Home
The notion that ‘a picture says more than a thousand words’ probably blinded us, leading us to believe that a picture must be an object that is complete in itself. But pictures are more dependent on context than we usually think. Instead of fighting this fact (and trying to create autonomous works), why do we not use context to our advantage, as a means to our ends? Think of comic strips.
Special thanks to air traffic control at Verkehrslandeplatz Mainz-Finthen (EDFZ) who allowed me to photograph their taxiway area.
Up!
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.
Change
This Way. That Way.
Tree, Interrupted
Grammar Exercise: Future
When I first read about this week’s photo challenge – Future Tense – I immediately thought: I should do something with an egg!
Transitory
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.
Cool Liquid
In the Park
The Snow Queen’s Palace
The Berlin Train IV
The Berlin Train III
Beyond the Pond
Beyond the ice there is water, and beyond that, trees – which are not quite beyond recognition.
The Berlin Train II
Changing Seasons: Snow
Fragile Ice
I was still exploring the last photo challenge – reflections – when the Changing Seasons challenge came up, the latter inspiring me to show a progression from fallen leaves to rime to the first fragile coat of ice on a pond in the park.
Inspiration
“We want to see portraits of you doing something that inspires you to blog.” That’s what the Special Photo Challenge asked for. So here are some things that inspire me.
The left picture shows many objects – me photographing stuff, actually. It was inspired by Susan Sontag’s essays on photography: The mere act of making a photograph, Sontag says, re-evaluates the stuff we find because taking a picture equals claiming that the subject is deserves to be looked at – even ugly objects become ‘nice’ in photograph. Hence Sontag’s idea that photography aesteticizes the whole world.
Though I find a lot of inspiration in texts, pictures inspire me too: I ‘found’ the right one after visiting an Ellsworth Kelly exhibition entitled “Black and White”. This abstract picture with me in it may well be a reaction to (or inspired by) the pictures I saw. – While all this describes my motivation to photograph, this blog is really inspired by my love of photography, and the desire to share my pictures and see what you think.
Green, Technically
A response to The Weekly Photo Challenge: German Railways (Deutsche Bahn) claim to provide the greenest transportation available, and here are some – green – fixtures that help provide the power for the engines.
Couple of Leaves
When I made the silhouette pictures of the last two posts, one thing led to another – and among other things, these two “couples” happened. I hope they contribute to Ailsa’s Travel Theme.
empire of lights 