The world in my town

The Hague likes to see itself as an international community. This refers mainly to the many international organizations which settle here. However, the majority of immigrants are not the prosperous members of this expat community, but those who came from poor countries, mainly from North Africa, in search of a better, safer, more well to do life. They settle segregated in some neighborhoods of the city and have changed the appearance of the shops in the streets

The Garden Dwarf Traveling (Gartenzwerg auf Reisen)

Dwarfs, although loved by kids, like in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, are often associated in Germany as being a bit single minded and backwards thinking. Europe is just too progressive these days for the Gartenzwergs, so they love coming over here where being backwards is the new trend… (BTW, I found this “Gartenzwerg” in an antique store in Cayucos.)

In this photo he finds the California nights with all its local mountain stars just so cool…

Recently, he traveled with Friedhelm, David, and Photoshop over to Columbia, the old Gold Digger Museum Town. He was thrilled dreaming of the good old mining days, digging up coal and minerals. He also liked the gold digging, but never got rich doing it…

Hat, Gloves and Fan

Friedhelm, Wolfgang and I went to Colombia State Historic Park the other day to do some night photography, while waiting for sunset we wandered around and this display in the Emporium window caught my eye.

Friedhelm, Wolfgang und ich gingen neulich in den Columbia State Historic Park, um ein paar Nachtaufnahmen zu machen, während wir auf den Sonnenuntergang warteten, wanderten wir herum und diese Ausstellung im Emporium-Fenster fiel mir auf.