At documenta Kassel, for the Weekly Photo Challenge
Tag: Travel
Transient Parthenon
At documenta Kassel, for the Weekly Photo Challenge.
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Strolling
Strolling around the towns of Middelburg and Veere. Though we come here regularly, I rarely photograph (always preferring the dunes and the sand and the sea), so I thought I’d share these for a change. The atmosphere and the light were just right … and I had brought my camera to what was originally an outing to have lunch. Thanks to my wife for her patience. | This is another contribution for Jo’s great Monday Walks – join her…!
Finestre
Fenster und Fassaden is Christina’s Magical Motto of the Month. And this time, I just seized the opportunity to show some windows (Fenster) I collected during our last trip to Italy, mainly in and around Lucca. I am always fascinated by glass and by the many shapes and designs of windows people come up with.
Please check out the other façades and windows at episoden.film! There are always great contributions to be seen there – and while Christina’s blog is in German, pictures know of no language barrier.
Wiesbadener Fenster
Fenster und Fassaden is Christina’s Magical Motto of the Month. So I thought I’d share the windows I found when I was taking a walk last Sunday. Don’t miss the other façades and windows at episoden.film!
Shipping Forecast
The Shipping Forecast is actually a service by BBC Radio, apparently well known in Britain. Here‘s a link in case you are curious.
Dunes
Like Jo at restlessjo, I love to walk on the shore. On Walcheren (southern Netherlands) the shore comes with great dunes. On this particular walk, the winter light invited a closer look at details. The sand looks quite rough because there had just been a little rain and wind did not have enough time to smooth the surface afterwards. I would like to contribute this post to Jo’s Monday Walks.
You can join Jo for her latest walk here.
Graceful
“Gracefulness is a tricky quality – it manifests itself as an effortless, subtle harmony between a subject and its environment,” writes Ben Huberman in The Weekly Photo Challenge. Nicely said, I think – and here is my response: I often find nature’s gracefulness (if I can call it that) by the water.
Dare precedenza!
Seascapes
Look Up
U3: Rathaus – Rödingsmarkt – Baumwall
This is the end of the U3 Hochbahn series. The next stop after Baumwall would be Landungsbrücken, where I started.
U3: Saarlandstraße
Hamburg: I always had in mind to get on the Hochbahn, ride one station, get out, photograph, hop on the next train, ride to the next station, make some more pictures…
I never got going until recently. It was interesting to realize how a theme, an interest, a subject evolved: After running up and down a couple of stairs I began to understand what to pay attention to.
Stairs, escalators, handrails cannot be avoided when riding the Hochbahn. They set the mood, define the character…
This series is a rather fragmentary representation of the U3 line – but it might be completed during one of my next visits.
Hamburg: Traces of the Past
Schanzenviertel – Blankenese Lighthouse – St. Pauli Landungsbrücken – Blankenese Lighthouse – Ottensen | An entry for Paula’s Thursday Special: Traces of the Past.
Renesse Underground
Same scene, different pictures, and I do not know which one I prefer. So I decided to show them both, trying to prove the point that – as has been noted – that it is the difference that makes the difference: Both appeal to me, but for different reasons.
I looked at the original picture (bottom) and asked myself if it would look more ‘radical’ if I cropped the black parts to the left and right, letting the ocean view running past the margins of the picture. Now that seems to make the picture more difficult. There seems to be some hint that the world continues beyond the frame of the picture, and in some way the picture seems to correspond with its surroundings – the white background of the page – more openly.
In comparison, the original picture might be more conventional. The bright parts can be seen as a picture within the picture, and it is almost neatly framed – almost: The left part of the frame shows a post, its shapes are just visible. And the left side of the frame is also a bit “heavier” than its counterpart. It seems like this picture offers more information it is possibly more restful, suggesting that what we see is a whole complete in itself. It might be more affirmative.
Writing this, I realize there is a bias – but I really wanted to say that these are not just two more or less identical pictures of a piece of ocean, seen through some posts, but that form makes quite a difference, not necessarily between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ one, but in content.
Beachclub Zuiderduin
Near Westkapelle, Walcheren, January 2016.
Strandpaviljoen “Zeecafé”
Near Oostkapelle, The Netherlands, 2016.
Walk on Beach
Walking on beaches is a passion I seem to share with Jo. Which is why I would like to share this walk (or maybe even series of walks) on her Monday Walks collection: Walking the beaches of south Holland, you find many things – among them the strandpaviljoens, beach cafés standing on stilts at the seaward base of the dunes, a welcome refuge from rain and cold and in case of an appetite for fish & chips. As a landscape photographer, I have always hated them because they are prone to get in the way. But this winter, I decided to turn the tables: You’ll see a couple of strandpaviljoen pictures this month.
Les fenêtres de Béziers
empire of lights 