Tag: Photos
Cum grano salis
Cum grano salis, lit. taken with a grain/pinch of salt, fig. not to be taken literally, to be understood using your wit.
Since this whole series makes use of a very specific type of contrast (you know what I mean, right?), I thought I might as well enter it into Paleica’s Magic Motto Challenge: Contrasts. Please check out her site! You’ll find some beautiful contribtions there.
Shine Through
This week’s Photo Challenge turns out to fascinate me, what with the days getting darker and leaving the photographer looking for lights… Here is another shot at the topic.
Le bonheur dans la rue (III)
Just decided this one should be part of the Photo 101 Rehab. Check it out.
Come In!
Getting these pictures ready to be published, I just realized that the light is kind of special in all three of them (little light as there might be). So I guess this might as well be an entry for Paleica’s Magic Letter Challenge: Licht / Light.
Im Holz. 1
A contribution for Magic Letters: I. The challenge is to photograph Innen which means ‘the inside’ but also carries a connotation of ‘inward’ or even ‘subjectivity’. Im Holz would be ‘in the wood’ in English – which could also have been a title I liked – and part one features two older fruit tree fractures. Life goes on here.
Orange Interior
Favourite colour – so this is an easy contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge.
Let Me Take You to the Top
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.
Ironworks. Up!
The ironworks shown here and in earlier posts are Völklinger Hütte (Völklingen Ironworks) in Saarland. Founded in 1873, they are now defunct. However the factory is now a World Heritage cultural site open to visitors.
Most of the pictures show details of the blast furnaces proper. More pictures taken on the top platform can be seen either here or in the Industrial Zone Gallery.
Walking the site felt like being in a strange yet exciting dream… I think that for anyone visiting Germany, these ironworks would counterpoint places like Heidelberg or Neuschwanstein very nicely.
Fragmente einer Sprache des Schreckens [2]
While it was bright and sunny in Longues-sur-Mer, visibility in Arromanches-les-Bains was poor (as BBC Weather would put it), rendering most of my pictures a harsh, almost rough black and white that reminds me of Capa’s D-Day pictures. So I pick smoother pictures here, asking myself if they might be too pretty for the subject. (Top: Arromanches; bottom: Longues)
Monopteron II
And There Was Light
Totem or Toro?
I cannot figure out who made this sculpture or what it is (if you know, please help me with a hint). Yet it has its part in defining the space between the museum and the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden. Since the latter are to be demolished, I wonder what will happen to this piece.
3 … 2 … On Board!
Modern Aircraft
Sometimes subjects and interests seem to have a life of their own.
By the end of December 2012, I drove to Frankfurt Airport to photograph some airplanes and – if possible – some of the airport’s navigational signs (a plan that had formed upon the desire to photograph ‘some machinery’ in an abstract way). I knew fairly well I could get really close to the historic aircraft at the Airlift Memorial; I knew fairly well what kind of pictures I wanted; and after two hours I knew the session had gone well.
Preparing the pictures for presentation in this blog, I realized there was more to them than just ‘abstract machinery’. For me, the pictures also transported a fascination with airports and flying (I vividly remember being taken on a short trip aboard a Piper Tomahawk) as well a sense of history: What does the memorial refer to? How were these planes used? And what can the memorial tell us about those who erected it?
In short: “The Berlin Train”, made at the Airlift Memorial, became a trigger – or should I say: ‘seed’ for other projects: I am currently trying to pursue both subjects, flight (or traffic) and memorials (or remembering). And both lead me to new insights, not only in terms of pictures but also in understanding things.
Special thanks to air traffic control at Verkehrslandeplatz Mainz-Finthen (EDFZ) for the permission to photograph the taxiway area. – This is also my contribution for this week’s photo challenge, for the the reflections on these planes are, in my view, fleeting.
Quite Some Characters
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.
Construction Site
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!
Silhouette Experiments
The Weekly Photo Challenge inspired me to try what I have been thinking about for a while now: I experimented with backlit dead leaves here, aiming at the silhouettes (and the compositions).
Le città e il gioco. 5.
Not many games to play on Tränkweg (above), so I added a picture from Schulberg (below), both playgrounds are in Wiesbaden.
empire of lights 