Favorites 2018

This year is drawing to a close. It has been become a traditon to share some of my personal favorites images. The actual period is still a moment to reflect this year in photography and to select some special, nice and memorable moments. For the gallery I selected images all captured in 2018. With one...

Change

A mood-enhancing light and play of colors and music by Nina Simone. "There are not many things In life you can be sure of. Except Rain comes from the clouds, And sun lights up the sky, And humming birds do fly. Winter turns to spring. Wounded heart will heal. Never much too soon Everything must...

The Eye Should Learn To Listen Before It Looks

"The eye should learn to listen before it looks." (Robert Frank) To explore and finding reflections are one of my favorite matter in photography. by the way you find reflections on windows and buildings, in the water and yes still in puddles. All what you need are your eyes and to find an interesting angle...

Remember

The festive season already started. For me it is still the time to remember special moments. Here to share some sunsets shots I took this year. A beautiful sunset is still a peaceful moment to close the day. And it is thrilling looking for the different colours when the sun disappeares from the horizon. No...

Everything Must Change

"There are not many things In life you can be sure of. Except Rain comes from the clouds, And sun lights up the sky, And humming birds do fly. Winter turns to spring. Wounded heart will heal. Never much too soon Everything must change..." (Lyrics by George Benson) Yesterday was the birthday of Nina Simone...

Changes

Manche Tage fühlen sich anders an, auch von der Farbe. Eigentlich sollte das Foto im Morgennebel für sich allein sprechen. Etwas Erroll Garner dazu als musikalische Abrundung. Nun steht es in einem anderen Kontext. Manchmal kommt es anders als man es sich gedacht hat. Heribert Prantl erinnert heute in der Süddeutschen Zeitung an den offenen...

Dream Path

"Warm summer sun, Shine kindly here, Warm southern wind, Blow softly here. Green sod above, Lie light, lie light. Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night." (Mark Twain) "I have everything I need right here in front of me, all the creativity, all the energy I need – I just have to dive very...

Looking In From Outside

While browsing through the internet I regularly come across on very interesting articles, videos and images. Here is to share a new selection of handpicked articles in English/German. Kodachrome memories of New York Looking at Robert Herman’s photographs of New York in the 1980s is a little like watching a movie. Taken in an era...

Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" Die Box-Legende Muhammad Ali ist im Alter von 74 Jahren gestorben. Er schrieb Sportgeschichte und blieb bis zuletzt eine Ikone. Kein Schwergewichtler boxte so elegant und leichtfüßig wie Ali zu seiner Glanzzeit. Der Mann den sie "GOAT" nannten, "Greatest Of All Times" hat seinen letzten und härtesten...

Speicherstadt

Sometimes I see my life in black and white...in photography. Taken in the Speicherstadt. The Speicherstadt (City of Warehouses), meaning warehouse district in Hamburg, Germany is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case. It is located in the port of Hamburg—within the...