lostworld – Passion for Photos

Classic US Signs

During various visits to the United States, I was always fascinated by the huge, free-standing billboards. Here a selection at night

Water Lily

I just spend a week sailing on the Masurian lakes in Poland. The shores of the lakes are lined with weeds and fields of water lily. Time for the use of the water proof camera

The Slovenian capital of Ljubljana also has a beautiful railway museum. There are lots of perfectly restored engines in a roundhouse. However, what I find more attractive for photos are the abandoned, derelict engines outside. And they might disappear

https://hrs-ontherailsagain.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-my-way-back-from-anatolia-6.html

Macro

In the beginning of my career as amateur photographic I bought all kind of equipment. One was a bellows device for macro photography. I still have it but did not use it for many years. However, upon scanning old slides I came upon this macro shot of a flower taken in 1979

Ara Güler’s Istanbul

For the 20th century Ara Güler was Istanbul’s most important photographer. His nickname was “the eye of Istanbul”. However, when he died in 2018, 90 years old, most of the town he had documented in his early years, had vanished in a wave of profit, development and tourism. Güler took the majority of his photos’s in Black and White. I tried to find some spots of the old Istanbul and create similar pictures.

https://hrs-ontherailsagain.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-my-way-to-anatolia-18.html

https://www.araguler.com.tr/tr/istanbulphotos2.html

Swiss Yosemite

Frequently I see beautiful pictures of Yosemite here. The valley behind the Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen is sometimes called Swiss Yosemite. Like there several cascades come down the high cliffs. And not unlike Yosemite the place is very well known by visitors from all over the world.

Sic transit gloria mundis

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century Baile Herculane was one of the fanciest spa resorts in Europe. Kings and emperors were guests here. It is still visited but the decay of the historic part of town in contrast to the contemporary spa shows how the taste of the modern world differs from what has been before.

https://hrs-ontherailsagain.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-my-way-back-from-anatolia-4.html

People and dogs

Some street photography of people walking their dogs

The end of the black Gold

The town of Ostrava in Czech republic had rich coal deposits close to the surface. In the 19th century the area developed into a center of mining and steel production. After the fall of the Berlin Wall the mines and most of the steel works closed. However, the enormous coal mine, cooking and steel production plant in the southern suburb of Viscovice will be preserved as a technical monument to industrialisation.

The whole story is here:

https://hrs-ontherailsagain.blogspot.com/2024/05/on-my-way-to-anatolia-5.html