Bogensee…. from dictatorship to ruin…

August 31, 2019 by 53weeks

Quoting Wikipedia: “Bogensee is a small lake near Wandlitz in the German state of Brandenburg, located about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of the Berlin city limits. Bogensee is known for the nearby former summer retreat of Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels, located approximately 500 m (1,600 ft) northwest of the shore. The premises were dedicated to Goebbels by the Berlin city administration on the occasion of his 39th birthday in 1936; he had an extended country home erected at the site until 1939, including a private cinema, a bunker, and adjacent SS barracks. Co-financed by the UFA film […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Brandenburg, DDR, Dictatorship, Elmar, FDJ, Germany, Goebbels, History, Leica, Monochrome, Nazi, Rühmann, Reunification, Soviet, Stalin, Summilux, UFA, Wandlitz, Wende

Leica M2

August 12, 2019 by 53weeks

At the beginning of the year I had my old Leica M2 from 1961 CLAed in Wetzlar. Here’s the first result…… Leica M2; Elmar 2.8 50mm; Kodak Portra 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: 50mm, adjusted, Avenue, Brandenburg, CLA, Cleaned, Elmar, Germany, Kodak, Leica, lubricated, Potra, Winter

Christmas is banned……

July 28, 2019 by 53weeks

As the temperatures soar above 30°C, I catch up with those winter pictures…. a (mild) winter walk in January. Leica M9M; Summicron 35mm; Summilux 50mm; VSCO; Lightroom

Categories: Photography • Tags: 2019, banned, Bike, Christmas, Döner, Food, Germany, Kebab, Kebap, Leica, M9, Monochrome, Potsdam, Summicron, Summilux, Walk, Waschhaus, Winter

A Sunday afternoon in Munich….

December 28, 2018 by 53weeks

just wandering around town… Leica M9M; Summilux 50; Lightroom & Silver Efex Pro

Categories: Photography • Tags: Audi Quattro, Bike, Black and White, Business, Coke, Cycling, Expo Real, Family, Food, Gallery, Germany, Leica, Life, Miniture, Munich, Museum, News, Space, Summilux, Travel, Work

Dackel Dolly….

November 18, 2018 by 53weeks

One of the children’s favourite actresses during a reading in Sanssouci…….  Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Actor, Actress, Berlin, Entertainment, Family, Film, Food, Germany, Leica, Life, News, Potsdam, Read, Sanssouci, Summilux, Television, Travel

Fire Starter

August 18, 2018 by 53weeks

Hot lady…. Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Artist, BBQ, Berlin, Bird, Circus, Culture, Entertainment, Event, Family, Fire Breathing, Fire Eating, Food, Foto, Germany, Hot, Life, Photo, Potsdam, Sex, Street, Street Festival, Time, Travel

Auntie Londa….

November 23, 2017 by 53weeks

Auntie Londa and Super Allen came visiting….. (more of him some other time) Leica M9; Summicron 90; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Blogging, England, Family, Food, Friends, Fun, Germany, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Travel, University

The last of Winter….

March 27, 2017 by 53weeks

Now that Spring has arrived I can keep posting those depressing shots of Winter….. Leica M9; Summilux 50 & Sumicron 35; VSCO  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Blogging, Depression, environment, Food, Germany, Humour, Landscape, Life, Mood, News, Photos, Places, Season, Sledging, Snow, Sports, Thüringen, Thuringia, Travel, Winter

Sacrow….

March 20, 2017 by 53weeks

in the Winter…. Leica M9; Summilux 50; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Church, Culture, Current Affairs, environment, Family, Food, Germany, Ice, Lake, Life, News, Photography, Potsdam, religion, Travel, Winter

The rest of Autumn….

March 8, 2017 by 53weeks

This was taken with the old Rolleiflex and a very particular high definition film from ADOX with 12 ISO. Rolleiflex 3.5f; Planar 75mm f3.5; ADOX Film and Kodak Portra 400

Categories: Photography • Tags: Analogue, Avenue, Culture, Family, Film, Food, Germany, Kodak, Life, Park, Potsdam, Road, Rolleiflex, Transport, Travel, Tree

It’s been a while….

February 15, 2017 by 53weeks

….since I last posted anything. To be honest I’ve been searching (as ever) for a little inspiration for a new project lasting 53 weeks and I can’t seem to settle on that “one” subject. It’s not for the lack of ideas it’s just that that simply I don’t want to confine myself to one type of motive or one medium or one of whatever….. Therefore the next few posts will be of things that I’ve been shooting over the past […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Analog, Analogue, Autumn, Beauty, Belrin, Business, City, Family, Film, Food, Fun, Germany, Herbst, History, Kodak, Leisure, Nature, Park, Portra, Potsdam, Rolleiflex, Sanssouci, Season, Travel, Zeiss

A Walk in the forest….

September 28, 2016 by 53weeks

with Ulrike! Rolleiflex 3.5 F (Mark III / IV); Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5f; Fuji Pro 400H; Epson V500

Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, Beauty, Blonde, Business, Colleague, Culture, environment, Europe, Family, Food, Forest, Fuji, Germany, girl, Kodak, Leaving, Life, Mother, Photography, Portrait, Rolleiflex, Season, Travel, Tree

Week Twelve – The grass is always greener…..

May 29, 2016 by 53weeks

Spring in Brandenburg…. Konica Hexar; Konica 35mm f2; Fujichrome Provia 400X

Categories: Photography • Tags: Agriculture, Analogue, Berlin, Brandenburg, Culture, Family, Film, Food, Germany, HexarK, Jealousy, Landscape, Life, onica, Photography, Spring, Travel, Tree

Week Ten – Singers….

May 1, 2016 by 53weeks

I’ve amended my blog just a little to include not only the place I call home but also some of the more interesting locations that I’ve come across this blogging year. To kick this off I’ve found a place that couldn’t be more different from Brandenburg! (Best viewed full size!) Leica M9; Summicron 50mm; Lightroom  

Categories: Photography • Tags: Business, Culture, Economics, Food, Germany, Hawker stalls, Life, Marine, Singerpore, Street Food, Trade, Travel

Week Five – The Forger….

February 5, 2016 by 53weeks

Find the forger…. Leica M9; Summilux 50 / Summicron 35; Lightroom / NIK

Categories: Photography • Tags: Asparagus, Berlin, Brandenburg, Countryside, Culture, Expat, Food, GDR, Germany, Gransee, Horse, Shopping, Tourism, Travel

Week 42 – Sandy….

October 11, 2015 by 53weeks

Categories: Photography • Tags: "Black & White", Beauty, Birthday, Food, Friend, Germany, girl, Glamour, Leica, Monochrome, Party, Portrait, Travel

Week 41 – Indian Summer….

October 6, 2015 by 53weeks

Categories: Photography • Tags: 50mm, Autumn, Beauty, Business, Colleague, Food, Germany, girl, Glamour, Indian Summer, Leica, Office, Photography, Portrait, Prime, Travel, Work

Week 34 – The Barman…

May 26, 2015 by 53weeks

This is Pepe! If you ever happen to fancy a drink in Potsdam, his place is the best in town…. P.S. The clue is on the t-shirt…. Rolleiflex 3.5 F (Mark III / IV) Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5f Kodak Portra 400 Epson V500

Categories: Photography • Tags: 6 x 6, Analogue Film, Bar, Barkeeper, Barman, Beer, Bier, Drink, festival, Film, Food, Germany, Hafthorn, Kneipe, Kodak, Medium Format, Neues Palais, New Palace, Potsdam, Pub, Rollei, Royal, Spirit, Summer, Travel, University

Week 7 – Nauener Tor

March 5, 2012 by 53weeks

The Nauener Tor in Potsdam was completed in 1755. It is believed to be based on Inveraray castle and Blenheim palace. Sometimes you’re closer to home than you think….

Categories: Photography • Tags: Expat, Family, Gate, Germany, Life, Photos, Picture, Potsdam, Scotland, Travel

Week 32 – Sanssouci Rose

August 17, 2011 by 53weeks

This was shot during a rainy Sunday stroll through Sanssouci….. f/4 1/125 ISO 400 @30mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.4, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, England, Expat, Family, Figur, Figure, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Preuss, Preussische Schloesser und Gaaerten, Project, Rose, Rosen, Sanssouci, Seat, Seconds, Sessel, Sigma, Sigma 1.4 30mm, Sitz, Statue, Stunden, Time, Weeks, Wife, Years

Week 30 – Muffer

August 9, 2011 by 53weeks

This was taken in Rhosneigr (Anglesey) on the last evening of our holiday in Wales. Thanks once again for everything! f/25 1/250 ISO 400 @17mm (Two remotely triggered strobes)

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Anglesey, Aperture, Bank, Beach, Bench, Blende, Chair, Cornwall, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Mother, Muffer, Mutter, Ni, North Wales, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Rhosneigr, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, Strand, Tamron, Time, Wales, Weeks, Years

Week 29 – Coming Home

August 8, 2011 by 53weeks

Some of you might have guessed that the project has not died, moreover everybody is entitled to a bit of a holiday sometime. After driving back through Germany and the Netherlands this was the view that greeted us on the Stena ferry taking us home. There will be more to come over the next few days to catch up. f/16 1/60 ISO 400 @17mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Blighty, Canon, Chair, Children, Deutschland, England, Expat, Family, Fähre, Ferien, Ferry, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Großbritanien, Hoek, Hoek van Holland, Holiday, Holland, Home, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Kinder, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Netherlands, Niederlande, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Sommer, Stena, Stena Ferry, Stunden, Summer, Summer holiday, Tamron, Time, Urlaub, Weeks, Wife, Years, Zu Hause

Week 28 – Don’t you just love blondes…….

July 18, 2011 by 53weeks

and this one is a very special example…… meet the aptly named Bonny. She is a very obedient, patient and easy going girl, quite prepared to have her pictures taken in the rain sitting next to her favourite treat without complaint. A real low maintenance girl…….. f/4 1/80 ISO 100 @30mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.4, 1.4 30mm, 30, 30mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Bitch, Blende, blond, Blonde, Bombshell, Bonny, boulette, burger, Canon, Chair, complaint, dog, easy, easy going, England, Expat, Foto, Fotos, Germany, girl, Golden haired retriever, goodie, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Hund, Images, low, low maintenance, maintenance, Minuten, Minutes, obedient, patient, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Pin up, Pin_up Girl, Potsdam, Project, Rain, retriever, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, snack, Stunden, Time, treat, Weeks, Years

Week 27 – The Saale

July 11, 2011 by 53weeks

After a short weekend break in the south of the country, this week’s post is centred around the river Saale. As we have now reached halfway on the photographic journey through the year 2011, this week’s entry is interactive. All those entering the poll (see below) have the chance to become the lucky winner of a once in a lifetime prize. So here goes: The first two were taken directly on the banks of the Saale River in Hirschberg (Thuringia). […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Aussicht, Aussischtsturm, Bach, Bank, Bench, Blende, Border, Burgk, Canon, Castle, Chair, East, England, Expat, Family, Fluß, Foto, Fotos, Gender, Generationen, Generations, Germany, Grenze, Guinness, Guinness Book of Records, Guinness Buch der rekorde, Hirschberg, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Landscape, Landschaft, looks, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Nationalität, Nationality, Ost, Palace, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Poll, Potsdam, Project, Records, Rekord, River, Saale, Schleiz, Schloss, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sex, Sitz, Sommer, Sonne, Stream, Stunden, Summer, Sun, Tamron, Thür, Thüringen, Thinker, Thuringia, Time, Tower, Turm, View, Vote, Watch Tower, Watchtower, Weeks, West, Years

Week 26 – Kim Wilde and the Siblings

July 4, 2011 by 53weeks

The Economist was recently titled “The man who screwed an entire country” accompanied by a picture of Silvio Berlusconi. In Potsdam it isn’t a single man but more a political morass of people who were on the payroll of the regime before the fall of the wall. One of the latest victims has been the local public services company which hosts the annual music festival in Potsdam. This year’s roll call included Simple Minds, Robin Gibb and Kim Wilde. The […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: "The Economist", 50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Berlusconi, Bicycle, Blende, Canon, Chair, Communism, Economist, Energy, England, Expat, f1.8, Fahrrad, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Geschwister, Great Britain, Humour, Images, Kim Wilde, Kommunismus, Lustgarten, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Morass, Pfaffhausen, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Pleasure Garden, Potsdam, Project, public services, Public services company, Robin Gibb, Screw, Seconds, Secret Police, Sessel, Siblings, Sigma, Silvio, Simple Minds, Sitz, Socialism, Sozialismus, Stadtwerke, Stadtwerkefest, Stasi, Stunden, Time, Utilities, Weeks, Years

Week 25 – Verena and Paris

June 25, 2011 by 53weeks

This week’s picture is a tribute to a great Frenchman, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry both an aviator and a children’s author. Second only to that man Eric in French history….. This was shot with kind permission of Verena under the plaque commemorating Saint-Exupéry in the Panthéon (Paris) during a recent business trip. f/5 1/125 ISO 800 @29mm Verena in the Panthéon (Paris)

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Air show, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Business, busy, Canon, Chair, Colleague, Der kleiner Prinz, England, Expat, Foto, Fotos, France, Frankreich, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Kollege, Le Borget, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Panthéon, Paris, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, The little Prince, Time, trip, Verena, Weeks, Years

Week 24 – Oma (Hamburg)

June 18, 2011 by 53weeks

This is Oma (Grandma) in the Stadtpark in the beautiful city of Hamburg. She says “the best years were my thirties”, My reply “unfortunately mine are all but gone!” “You’ve still got your forties to come!” That’s all very well but if the thirties were the best years, where do we go from here? They say the old thirties are the new fifties. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! P.S. she’ll be ninety-three this year so she ought to […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 30, 40, alt, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Blende, Canon, Chair, Deutschland, dreizigern, elderly, England, Expat, f1.8, Family, Foto, Fotos, fourties, fouties, Frühling, Germany, Grandma, Grandmother, Great Britain, Grossmutter, Hamburg, HH, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, jung, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Nord, Norddeutschland, Northern Germany, Old, Oma, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Spring, Stunden, Tamron, thirties, Time, vierzigern, Weeks, Years, young

Week 23 – Rainy Milano

June 13, 2011 by 53weeks

This is Uli, my colleague on a very wet day in Milan. We went from a glorious nearly 30°C in Berlin to a miserable 18°C and rain in Milan. Still I got to see the San Siro from the outside so all in all not bad for a day’s business trip. The first picture (above) is a crop of the second (below), as usual I couldn’t decide so I’m hedging my bets once again. Both (of course) f4 1/1250 ISO […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 30mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, Chair, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Italia, Italien, Italy, Mailand, Milan, Milano, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, San Siro, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, Stunden, Time, Uli, Ulrike, Weeks, Years

Week 22 – Schloss Lindstedt

June 5, 2011 by 53weeks

as above ……… f8 1/50 ISO 800 @50mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, Allee, Aperture, Architecture, Architektur, ASA, Bank, Beauty, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, Castle, Castle Lindstedt, Chair, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, ISO, Lindstedt, Manor House, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Palace, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Preussen, Preussische Schlösser, Project, Prussia, Schloss, Schloss LIndstedt, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Years

Week 21 – Back to basics…..

May 31, 2011 by 53weeks

This was taken early in the morning whilst on my way to work on that “sit up and beg” style Dutch bike of mine that I have mentioned previously. The view is from the Havelstrasse across to the Hans Otto theatre in Potsdam. I’ve finally gone full frame, albeit analogue. This was shot with a Pentacon 50mm f1.8 (effectively a Meyer Oreston 50mm f1.8) lens on a Praktica MTL3 camera which were last produced around 1984. The MTL3 is completely […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.8, 50mm, Analog, Analogue, Aperture, Azor, B&W, Bank, Belichtung, Belichtungsmesser, Bench, Berlin, Black and White, Blende, Chair, DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Digital, Dutch, Dutch Bicycle, Dutch Bke, Expat, Exposure, f1.8, Family, Film, Foto, Fotos, GDR, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hans Otto Theater, Havelstrasse, Holland, Hollandrad, Hours, HP5, Humor, Humour, Ilford, Ilford Hp5, Images, Light, Light Meter, Meyer, Meyer Oreston, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Pentacon, Photo, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Praktica, Project, Schwarzweiss, Seat, Seconds, Sessel, Sit up and Beg, Sitz, Stunden, theater, theatre, theter, Time, TTL, Weeks, Years

Week 20 – The Avenue

May 24, 2011 by 53weeks

This is the avenue that runs between the Orangery and the Dragonhouse (Belvedere) in Sanssouci. I seem to have suffered a creative block this week, considering my L.O.F.T. it’s astonishing that I can be susceptible to such a thing. f10 1/125 ISO 100 @30mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.4, 1.4 30mm, 30mm, Allee, Aperture, Avenue, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, Chair, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Neues Palais, New Palace, Orangerie, Orangery, Park Sanssouci, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Sanssouci, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, Stunden, Time, Weeks, Years

Week 19 – The Schleizer Triangle

May 16, 2011 by 53weeks

Schleiz’s claim to fame is one of the oldest “natural” race tracks in Germany. The first ever race took place on the 10th of June 1923, with the aim being to race as far as possible and as quickly as possible on five litres of fuel. The winner of the car race was Mr. Huldreich Heußer with a total distance of 87.3 km and an average of 41.4 km/h (which quite incidentally is similar to what I get out of […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, 85mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Canon, Chair, Expat, Fahrer, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Geschichte, History, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Motorbike, Motorcycle, Motorrad, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, Race, Rennen, Rider, Schleiz, Schleizer Dreieck, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Spring, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Triangle, Weeks, Wife, Years

Week 18 – The Lady by the Lake

May 9, 2011 by 53weeks

…… on a sunny May afternoon in Neuruppin (1923). f4 1/800 ISO 200 @19mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 1920s, 1923, 50mm, anonym, anonymous, Antique, antiquität, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Brandenburg, Canon, Canon 40D, Chair, England, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Frau, Frühling, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Lady, Landscape, Mai, May, Minutes, Monate, Months, Neuruppin, Old, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sepia, Sessel, Sitz, Spring, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Woman, Years

Week 17 – The Pleasure Garden

May 2, 2011 by 53weeks

….. or in German the “Lustgarten” which somehow has a more appealing ring to it …….. f14 1/200 ISO 200 @30mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 30 mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Bild, Blende, Canon, Deutschland, Expat, Family, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Image, Images, lust, Lustgarten, Monate, Months, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, pleasure, Pleasure Garden, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Years

Week 16 – Have a break….

April 25, 2011 by 53weeks

have a, well it’s not a KitKat that’s for sure but I think she’s enjoying it anyway. It’s been a long time coming but spring has well and truly arrived in the capital. f5.6 1/50 ISO 200 @25 mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Allee, Aperture, Avenue, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Berlin Mitte, Berliner, Canon, Chair, Family, Foto, Germany, Gold, Golden Ratio, Goldener Schnitt, Great Britain, Hackischer Höfe, Hof, Humor, Humour, Minuten, Minutes, Mitte, Monate, Months, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Ratio, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Spree, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Wife, Yard, Years

Week 15 – Nonuplets (Neunlinge)

April 18, 2011 by 53weeks

This is Uta…… and Uta, with Uta in the background, Uta in front of Uta, beside them is Uta, by the side of her is Uta, with Uta and Uta in the distance. (From left to right). Thanks to erm ….. that’s right Uta. f 10 1/250 ISO 200 @17mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, BUGA, Bundesgartenschau, Canon, Chair, Flower show, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Mehrlinge, Minutes, Monate, Months, Neunlinge, Nonuplets, Photo, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Uta, Weeks, Years

Week 14 – The Class of 2011

April 9, 2011 by 53weeks

It’s 21 years ago this Spring since I sat my A-levels and these ladies 20 years my junior will be studying hard as I write to make sure they get the grade for Uni. I certainly don’t envy them in the slightest. Without wanting to sound like the pompous “old git” that I really am, I’d like to say to them “make the most of it all and above all enjoy it!”, I know I did (and do). The picture […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, A-Level, Abitur, Alena, Anika, Anne, Antje, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Canon, Carolin, Chair, Class, Deborah, Exam, Examination, Expat, Family, Fine, Foto, Fotos, Franzi, Germany, Goethe Gymnasium, Goethe Gymnasium Nauen, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Isabell, Jenny, Klausur, Kristina, Lessons, Minuten, Minutes, Miriam, Monate, Months, Music, Nauen, Nora, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Prüfung, School, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Sixth Form, Sophia, Stunden, Susi, Tamron, Teacher, Time, Weeks, Wife, Years

Week 13 – Beer Benches to You!

April 4, 2011 by 53weeks

And lots of them! Apparently the official translation is “Ale-Bench” although I’ve never heard of this expression and I find the literal translation of “Bierbank” somehow more pleasing, even if it isn’t correct. Sunday evening and the very last minute, with the inspiration once again coming from elsewhere (the usual source). All rather hurried in every respect as well, sorry for that and I hope you like it anyway. f 8 1/5 ISO 200 -1 ev 26mm  

Categories: Photography • Tags: "Ale-Bench", "Biertischgarnitur", 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Beer, Bench, Berlin, Bier, Bierbank, Bierbänke, Blende, BUGA, Canon, Chair, England, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Months, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Years

Week 12 – Katharinenholz

March 28, 2011 by 53weeks

Thanks to Antje for this week’s entry, I was definitely in need of some inspiration for one reason or another. Spring hasn’t quite made it yet, even if the clocks have gone forward this last weekend. It is however “in the air” as they say. This was taken at Katharinenholz in Bornim (Potsdam) f10 1/160 ISO 400 30mm  

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.4, 30mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Bornim, Brandenburg, Canon, Chair, Forest, Forst, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Holz, Hours, Images, Katharinenholz, Landscape, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, Stunden, Wald, Weeks, Wife, wood, Years

Week 11 – Park Babelsberg

March 21, 2011 by 53weeks

Here we are back in not so exotic territories but home nonetheless. Many thanks to Tom for this week’s suggestion and of course to the unknown cyclist who rounded off the picture nicely. It was taken from Park Babelsberg overlooking the Havel River to the city of Potsdam. Thanks also, to those readers who pointed out that I have been living abroad for too long and that my blog should be named “53 Weeks on a bench” rather than “53 […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.4, 1.4 30mm, Aperture, Babelsberg, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Canon, Chair, Family, Foto, Fotos, Geordie, Germany, Great Britain, Havel, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Newcastle, Park, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sheep, Sigma, Sitz, Stunden, Time, Weeks, Wife, Winter, Years, Yorkshire, Yorkshireman

Week 9 – From Bremen to ….

March 4, 2011 by 53weeks

…… tune in again next week for the sequel, you won’t be disappointed! Thanks to Peter for his patience trudging around Bremen city centre on a cold damp winters evening. f1.8 1/25 ISO 800 50mm ambient light (P.S. I really do love that cheap 50mm 1.8 piece of glass)

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.8, 50mm, ambient light, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Bremen, Canon, Chair, f1.8, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Nifty Fifty, Peter, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, Seat, Seconds, Weeks, Winter, Years

Week 8 – Zum Zipfelteich

February 28, 2011 by 53weeks

Here’s a picture of the little people and their mother on a rather curious looking bank. It was taken during one of those now so very familiar winter walks in the south-east of the country. This is a place I will undoubtedly be visiting again this year albeit, in a somewhat tempered climate. I might even use this location as a changing of the seasons project within this project because it really is ever so pretty here. f8 1/25 ISO […]

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Week 7 – The Expatriate

February 20, 2011 by 53weeks

I finally found a bank with someone on it. This is Pete, he’s the gentlest soul you’ll ever meet. f5 1/160 ISO 100 19 mm  

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Week 6 – BOGOF

February 14, 2011 by 53weeks

This weeks offer is a BOGOF (not to be mixed up with BOBFOC), where you get two for the price of one, which probably applies for both actually….. I just couldn’t decide between the two. So why don’t you decide?   Both photographs were taken of the same bank on the floodplains of the Wisenta River in Schleiz (Thuringia). I was hoping for a little more variety of motifs, when I set out, i.e. a balance between portrait and landscape […]

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Week 5 – Green and Grey

February 7, 2011 by 53weeks

It’s nearly twenty years ago since I first heard this song with a very good friend of mine travelling to his home in a small German town on the Polish border. Being six months into my year abroad at the time, it reminded me very much of my own home in the North West of England. Today I see the song in a slightly different light…. guilty as charged? I don’t really think so, this isn’t the land of gold […]

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Week 3 – Moody Skies in the Depth of Winter

January 24, 2011 by 53weeks

Winter once again returns. Taken on an afternoon walk to break up the all day feast which is synonymous with rural family celebrations.   f10 1/1000 ISO 200

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Week 2 Potsdam – “The-Bread-Roll-Run”

January 18, 2011 by 53weeks

I think you may have to get used to a number of these banks being within the boundaries of the city of Potsdam, as well as being taken at the last possible moment during the week. The more observant of you will have noticed that this was taken on a Sunday, hence it was taken on the first day of the new week. This is correct, unless you live in Germany, where the first day of the week is a […]

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Week 1 Dallgow Döberitzer Heide

January 18, 2011 by 53weeks

“It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.” – David Bailey – In “Face,” (London), Dec 1984. It is with this in mind that we set off on our 53 week photographic journey. There are few things more ordinary than a bank, so in […]

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