Bombenstimmung

I don't know exactly what this thing is - a bomb, a zeppelin, something completely different. Every time I visit my friend S., I see the thing on the way there and well, this time I had my camera with me.

Buddy

Now it's official - spring has sprung! Did I mention that before...? ;-)

My baby

That's mine...

Posting the process

Today, I'm going to show an example of post processing, not the greatest thing I ever did (or actually it might be because I "fixed" quite a few things on the original photo).
Anyway, my friend C. came back from a trip today and I printed this version of her photo (in b/w) on red cardboard, added the caption "WANTED" and held it up when picking her up at the airport :D

This is real!

How do sunsets do that, create colour gradients like this? The sky being dipped in bright blue and flaming orange - I think it's the surest sign that spring is here :-)

Looking back

I had some time to kill and my camera with me, so I looked behind me...

A kind of magic

This is a magical button - when you turn it, there is music in the air...

El Sombrero

Looks like one and makes you think of summer holidays immediately, doesn't it? It is the lid of a straw basket at my friend's house though.

Scotsman

In the olden times, that was the place for the dagger. But things change...

Spring is springing

Birds are chirping, grass is greening, insects are waking up - and I'm looking forward to shooting them all with my camera, like this one last summer in my friend's garden:

Colour Study

If you figure out what exactly this is, you can make a wish .. not to me, to the universe ;-)


PS: It is meant to be like that even though it was a lucky accident..

One of those days...

Do you know those mornings when you already wake up with a piercing headache, as if a screw went right through your head...?


Heart pendant in steampunk style.. I think I'm developping a liking for it.

A tried and tested combination

Again, the city shows its old and new side together, at dusk this time. The skyscrapers seen from the old part of town, Sachsenhausen - nice area to go out but I wouldn't want to live there.

Power Struggle

It's Easter soon...

Asian Beauty

This girl was handing out flyers in the aforementioned mall for I don't know what, clad in traditional (looking) clothes. She is very photogenic, actually looks prettier in the photo than in reality.

Family Picture

I love taking photos of photographers and their motives.. like this one, of a Chinese "tribe" ;-)

Productive Weekend

A training and going out on Saturday, some jewellery making on Sunday.


Btw... mum, that's what I made from your leftover rocailles:

Old Time(s)

Frankfurt combines historic and modern buildings, sometimes successfully, sometimes less.

And here the soundtrack to the picture.

The outside

As promised a few days ago, here the outside of said mall:

Blue Water

I never know exactly where I stand with taking photos in shops. So I either refrain (rarely) or do it on the sly, without attracting attention. What you can see here is a display of precious Australian mineral water, dipped into blue light to emphasise its value...

Don't move!

Taking HDRs of people is challenging because people have one annoying habit - they move. However, here, I was lucky, the girl was bent over some postcards and didn't change her position for the whole two seconds it took me to focus and take three successive pictures of her.

PS: Check out those mugs!

Explorer

I saw this little one, exploring the world on her own while being waited for by mum and grandma..

Rheinwein

This is where my trip began on Saturday, R. station. A lonely empty bottle that had contained Rheinhessen Pinot Gris was standing on the platform, slowly being filled again by the rain and reflecting on the wet ground.

My Zeil

My Zeil is a relatively new shopping mall downtown with an interesting architecture (I will post one or two more photos some time later). Inside, they are very strict and don't allow to take pictures, so I shot this one from the crowded escalator :D

Night Life

Yesterday was a fruitful photo day in Frankfurt and this was the last picture, a nocturnal HDR:

Simba

This is my friend's cat, as cute as he is dangerous (the cat, not the friend - she is a sweetheart)...

River bed

The other day, I talked to a student about exhibiting photos. Spinning the idea further, I was thinking about themes, one of them being "Flusslandschaften" (rivers in landscapes). So what about this one:

Juicy sun

You can eat oranges, you can squeeze the juice out of them, you can cook marmelade from them - or you can cut a thin slice off, hang it on your window in front of a sheet of white paper and take a macro photo ;-).

Belle

What to say .. this beautiful girl is my best friend and I took the picture last March when she was six months pregnant.

Sundew

I wonder why it is called that, the little carnivorous plant you see here.

Venus

I came across this lady recently - guess where...