Many, many of such windings roads were to drive on the Greek island Corfu.
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Month: June 2017
Wordless Wednesday: yellow
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Travel Tuesday: shop
The sign above the entrance of this shop in the oldtown of Greetsiel says “Bauernladen”. Literally translated, this would be something like framers shop and proposes fresh product from a farm.
The sign beside the door says “Fischbrötchen”. That’s fish in a roll. Either herring (Matjes or sour pickled), kipper (i.e. mackerel, eel, sprats or more seldom along the coast trout) or even crabs.
In the back you can see some products for tourists to buy as souvenirs.
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Monochrome Madness 4-10
This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.
I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.
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Throwback Thursday: morning lights
Getting up early rewards you with fantastic light and beautiful sights. See your surrounding landscape with different eyes.
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Wordless Wednesday: generational change
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Travel Tuesday: reed roof house
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Monochrome Madness 4-09
This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.
I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.
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Throwback Thursday: sunrise
Wordless Wednesday: flaming
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Travel Tuesday: reed roof
Do you remember my last weeks post about the traditional house in North Germany? The ones with the reed roof? Today, I have a detail from such a roof for you.
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Monochrome Madness 4-08
This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.
I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.
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Umweltfotofestval “Horizonte Zingst”
This post is a translation from my German blog, where you can find a gallery with some images taken during the festival to give you an impression.
End of May, I was in Zingst attending the annual photo festival “Horizonte Zingst”. It’s called environmental photo festival, because it is focused on our environment and how we treat it. I was there for the first time, but it was held for the tenth time.
Zingst is located at the German coast of the Baltic sea in the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It’s a small seaside resort.
For one week, photography rules the town. Many, many exhibitions are held outside as well as inside. More than 120 workshops were organised on so many different topics. And everything took place in a very relaxed atmosphere.
The festival lasts for 8 days, starting on Saturday and lasting ’til next Sunday, while the main time is Thursday ’til Sunday. All days have a full loaded schedule where you can pick the topics of your interest or just sit on the beach and enjoy the great landscape.
Each day, there are several exhibition openings with speeches or at least an interview of the photographer. You can learn the idea behind the images or about her style of work. I’d recommend, visiting the exhibitions of your interest at least twice: first alone and for the second time when the photographer is there. Im my gallery I have some impressions of the exhibitions for you.
Each day there are also lots of workshops you can attend. There are workshops for beginners as well as for pros. You can learn the basics of photography or special techniques and sharpen your skills. In sum there were about 120 workshops held during the week.
On the beach they set up a big screen every evening to show a compilation of what happened during that day, called “Bilderflut” (image flood). In approximately 1 hour you can have a brief overview of what happened during the workshops and see resulting images of the participants. It’s kind of a news show on television but with 2 anchor men standing life in front of the screen and the movies (short documentaries) are not the screen behind them.
You can attend it while either sitting in the sand, standing on the pier or (if lucky enough) sitting in one of the deck chairs of the beach club, set up only for supporting the Bilderflut.
the media team has a very hard job. 8 guys starting on 7 a.m. each day to film and cut the movies to bring them life in the evening. The result is not only played on the big screen on the beach, but also streamed to the internet. At Facebook (unfortunately nor on Youtube), you can follow the show, even when not in Zingst.
Central point of reference it the Max Hünten Haus. Max Hünten was a painter, born 1869 in Düsseldorf. During the 1920s he move to Zings after having visited The Darß, a wild forest between Zingst and Ahrenhoop. Nowadays the area is a preservation zone. That forest is untouched since many centuries.
Max Hünten also was a photographer. At the local history museum they have found 500 glass plates. It’s the same technique Anselm Adams has used. The 500 glass plates were taken during the 4 years lasting world travel of Max Hünten from 1910 to 1914. The treasure was the initial impulse to establish Zingst as a location for photography. It’s also the spectacular landscape and the special light here at the coast, that make Zingst a special location. So, the festival was founded and backed by some of the major companies in photography.
As a festival focused on the environment, you can see many images showing the beauty and the ruined beauty of our plant. Photo students, photo journalist as well as established landscape and nature photographers displayed there fantastic images. I really recommend having a look on the gallery in my German post.
Between Thursday and Saturday, the town became even more crowded than the days before. I guess, not only because of the very nice weather and the prolonged weekend (that Thursday we have had a public holiday, so that many took the Friday as a bridging day off). During those so-called core-days, they also have had a photo market in town. Lots of tents holding booths of dealers and the major photography companies. You were able to chat with sales engineers and expert adviser, try gear or even get some gear lent to test it outside in combination with your own gear. What a chance!
I guess, that this wasn’t my last visit in Zingst.
Here I have the “Bilderflut” of the last night (Sunday). It’s twice as long as the shows of the other nights. But, it gives you a brief overview of the whole festival. Even it is stored on Facebook, you can watch it without begin a member of Facebook. Btw. at minute 44:50 you can see on of my images as a part of “Best of Zingst” in the category “Landscape” as #3 out of 15.
Much of fun!
Throwback Thursday: moated castle
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Wordless Wednesday: red
Flower of the year 2017 in Germany / Blume des Jahres 2017 in Deutschland
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Travel Tuesday: traditional houses in the North of Germany
In the states of northern Germany, we have a tradition to build houses with the roof made of water reed. (btw. this plant is called Reed, Schilf or Rohr in German)
Once, each house has had such a roof. Than, only the houses of poor people. Nowadays, the situation has changed: only the rich ones can afford such a roof. It lasts approximately 30 years and is a natural air-condition. It keeps the cold outside during winter and the heat outside during summer.
The houses in the image above, are vacation homes and quite new. But, there are still many privat houses around with this kind of roof, too.
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Monochrome Madness 4-07
On Sunday last week, I came back from my latest trip. I attended a photo festival called Umweltfotofestival “Horizonte Zingst” (environmental photo festival “horizons Zingst”) in Zingst at the Baltic Sea. Although it was organized for the 10th time, I was there as a freshman. For 8 days the town was crowded by many, many photographers enjoying the fantastic and unique landscape, visiting many different photo exhibitions or podium discussions on photography, taking part in a workshop or simply networking. From Thursday to Saturday they also have had a trade fair for photo gear.
The festival started on May 20th and lasted until May 28th. I was there for the whole time with experienced friends. And I have to admit, the landscape is really gorgeous. Also the exhibitions were remarkable.
I attended one workshop (one out if more than 120). The theme was Märchenwald (enchanted forest or fairytale forest), led by Heinz Teufel. After a short introduction, we went out to take photos and interpret the topic on our own. Therefore we started in a primeval forest and followed the paths to the beach, where the primeval forest reaches the Baltic sea.
Next morning each participant has had to present up to 10 images to get image criticism. Two of these ten images per participant were selected to be presented at night at the beach cinemascope-like on a huge screen. This procedure was the same every night, but the last one. For the last night, they have had picked the best of these collections and grouped them by landscape, animals, people, street and macro. Surprisingly, one of my two images was selected for that final show in the category landscape. I was so thrilled seeing my image unexpectedly on the big screen. A video published by the organiser is available on FB (it’s public viewable even if you’re not on FB). You can see my image at ~44:50. It’s #3 of 15 presented during the “Best of Zingst” show, selected out of hundreds of images. I’m so happy. You can see it on top of this post.
This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.
I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.
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Throwback Thursday: illuminated
2012, March 17th
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