Photos are meant to be shared
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.
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There was a lively discussion about street photography in the German Whatsapp Group recently.
I tried to create a couple of inventive contributions.
In Munich
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Big areas near me are covered by greenhouses. Only seldom they give up, but when they do it is usually a good chance to take some shots
The “Deutsche Dampflok Museum” in Neuenmarkt Wirsberg is one of the biggest of its kind in Germany. It offers numerous possibilities for photos. Particularly fascinating for me are the rusty remains of some waggons stored outside
Central Europe had a wet autumn of biblical dimensions. Because of global warming the Arctic ocean evaporates more water which came down on us in the month of November and December. The advantage is that it offers some photographic possibilities
By chance I had the heavy telelens with me when I saw this grebe splashing around in the ice cold water of december
I studied some old black and white movies and try to transfer the dramatic imaging to modern, color scenes. Good inspiration can be found in “the third man” by Carol Reed, or the movies of Willy Zielke (“arbeitslos, Schicksal von Millionen”, “Stahltier”). Here are some November scenes in the streets of Amsterdam.
I hope the darkness of the faces adds some drama to the scenes….
Zielkes movies were forbidden by the censorship of the Third Reich. This probably was on instigation of Reni Riefenstahl, who copied his way of filming. He ended up in an insane asylum. After the war he was reexamined and found perfectly sane.
At least around here it is not the time, but I selected some summer photos from our beach here to convert to black and white. It adds some drama to the originals
Some pictures from Germany’s oldest and most atmospheric Christmas market – in Nürnberg. Unfortunately many people know that
Recently Peter posted a number of great shots made in London. I don’t try to compete, but I found some in my collection as well….
