February 2024 – Page 2 – Passion for Photos

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Bei normaler Beleuchtung würde man den Fahrstuhl und die Drehtür wahrscheinlich nur beiläufig wahrnehmen. Technik halt, funktional, aus Glas und kühlem Stahl. Und dann scheint die Abendsonne für wenige Minuten im richtigen Winkel darauf und man sieht plötzlich ein ganz anderes Bild.

In normal lighting, you would probably only notice the elevator and the revolving door in passing. Just technology, functional, made of glass and cool steel. And then the evening sun shines on it at the right angle for a few minutes and you suddenly see a completely different picture.

Ents ?

Wenn man mit offenen Augen spazieren geht, entdeckt man manchmal merkwürdige “Gestalten”.

If you go for a walk with your eyes open, you sometimes discover strange “figures”.

Poverty

Every night, and in the middle of winter, dozens of homeless spend their night in sleeping bags in the streets of Munich.

Especially popular is Sonnenstrasse, where the overhanging parts of the buildings provide shelter for the shop windows of luxury shops and the homeless.

Puppy Play

Puppies playing in the grass on a cloudy day.

California Highways

They are often full of crazy traffic – the Highways in California – but sometimes we find one that is scenic where hardly any other car is visible. One of those Highways I drove yesterday, a lonely and narrow winding road in the Diablo Mountain Range.

Old Barn in Dos Palos, San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley, you can pass through in many ways, just staying on crowded freeways, or taking the little back country roads. One of those many back country roads is Highway 33, kinda passing diagonally – from northeast to southwest. Collapsing buildings and failing farm structures are plentiful, although one after the other is eventually pushed over, when not by bulldozers, then by wind and weather.

This old barn, I have seen many times, last a couple of years ago, with the roof still intakt, but turned green with moss growing on it during the wet winter season. Finally, I came back to photograph it.

Mt. Shasta in Winter

Walking the Dog

All these image were created during my regular morning walk. I photographed random people walking their dog through the park.

Altmark

Das ist Schloss Kunrau in der Altmark. Wobei es, genau genommen, gar kein Schloss ist, sondern ein repräsentativer Gutssitz, den sich um 1860 der Sohn eines wohlhabenden Braunschweiger Getreidehändlers errichten ließ. Der sich anschließende Park im Stil eines englischen Landschaftsgartens hat mich dazu inspiriert, dem Bild einen Look im Stil englischer Landschaftsmalerei zu geben.

This is Kunrau Castle in the Altmark region. Although, strictly speaking, it is not a castle at all, but a prestigious manor house built around 1860 by the son of a wealthy grain merchant from Braunschweig. The adjoining park in the style of an English landscape garden inspired me to give the picture a look in the style of English landscape painting.