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Israel Part Three (Monochrome) – Jerusalem

January 4, 2020 by 53weeks

I did have some qualms about taking pictures at the Western Wall, however I wasn’t there on the Shabbat and no one is recognisable so I don’t think anyone will be offended….. Leica M9M; Summilux 50; Summieren 35; Elmar 21; VSCO

Categories: Photography • Tags: Business, Colleague, Culture, Family, Food, Israel, Jerusalem, Leica, Life, Photo, Politics, Trade, Travel, VSCO, Western wall

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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

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Week Nine – A Right Royal Evening….

April 11, 2016 by 53weeks

Neues Palais during the early evening sunset….. Leica M9; Summicron 35mm; Lightroom

Categories: Photography • Tags: 35mm, Berlin, Culture, Family, Food, Glow, Heritage, Kaisers, Kings, Leica, Neues Palais, New Palace, Photo, Photography, Potsdam, Royalty, Sanssouci, Spring Season, Summicron, Sunshine, Travel

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Week 23 – Private Kozma

June 25, 2012 by 53weeks

I spent some time with one of my favourite photographers at a local Russian graveyard this week. It sounds like a strange idea and it certainly was eery, but it  proved to be a place of peace and absolute beauty and hence ideal for photography. Thanks to my wife for the great birthday present, I just hope a little of his talent rubbed off. The picture is dedicated to Private Kozma who never lived to see his 40th birthday. (My […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Birthday, Death, Family, Joachim Liebe, Life, Photo, Russia, Society, Soldier, Travel

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Week 22 – This is art….

June 18, 2012 by 53weeks

This is a picture of the little people with a bridge covered in barrier tape ….

Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Construction, Entertainment, Family, Fashion, News, Photo, Politics, religion, Travel

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Week 20 – BER

June 3, 2012 by 53weeks

BER is the international code for the brand new single airport in Berlin. It was due to open today and my folks would have had the pleasure of flying from it for the first time. But hey-ho it wasn’t to be, I just hope they’ll finish it by March! This was the week that I officially turned into an old man! Thanks for the great birthday everybody!

Categories: Photography • Tags: Airport, Family, Flying, German, Late, News, Parents, Perfect, Photo, Travel

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Week 18 – Simply Mitte

May 21, 2012 by 53weeks

The middle of Berlin, nothing more and nothing less……

Categories: Photography • Tags: Berlin, Business, Fashion, Home, Lifestyle, Living, Pavement, Photo, Sidewalk, Travel, Vespa

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Week 17 – Lenin and the Little People

May 14, 2012 by 53weeks

I thought I’d continue the Soviet theme for another week. This is more or less all that remains of the former Red Army base, which after being cleared of all munitions is now a public park.

Categories: Photography • Tags: Children, Family, History, Life, Photo, Politics, religion, Russians, Spring, Travel

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Week 3 – Lytham and St-Anne’s-on-Sea

February 5, 2012 by 53weeks

This was taken whilst we were still in England during a very enjoyable day trip to Lytham St Anne’s. We especially appreciated the excellent fish and chips and the chance to play football on the beach, two things that are a rarity for a family living in continental Europe.

Categories: Photography • Tags: England, Family, Food, Football, Fun, Lytham St Anne's, Photo, Pier, Travel

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Week 1 – Belvedere Palace

January 23, 2012 by 53weeks

Well here we go again, another 53 weeks lie ahead of us. If anything this next period will be more difficult than the first, if only because doing something again is often more difficult than setting out to do something the first time. They say you should start as you mean to go on, so at the last minute on the Sunday afternoon (before the light faded), I walked up to the Belvedere Palace to shoot this. I do hope […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Belvedere, Culture, Expat, Family, History, New Project, Palace, Photo, Potsdam, Winter

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Week 53 – The Bridge

January 11, 2012 by 53weeks

Well this is it, one year of benches (banks etc.) completed. I was hoping to finish off with an absolute highlight but the lack of time, the dark evenings and the horribly warm wet weather have put paid to that idea. One suggestion was for a portrait of me on a bench as the grand finale, but luckily you’ve been spared that sight. That was the good news, the bad news is that I’ve really enjoyed doing this project so […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Bridge, End, grand finale, Life, Miscellaneous, New, Photo, Project, Random

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Week 52 – The Coach House (Caputh)

January 2, 2012 by 53weeks

This was taken on New Years Day just after lunch. It is the last but one entry in this series. I can see a new project looming on the horizon, although I’m not too sure just what it will be. f/8 1/80 ISO 400 @30mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: Caputh, Christmas, Coach House, Einstein, Life, New Year, Photo, Series, Vintage

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Week 44 – The Man in Black

November 7, 2011 by 53weeks

Meet Steve! He’s usually clad in his black bike leathers, but with his baby tucked up for the winter it looks like he’s on foot. f/5.6 1/2500 ISO 400 @30mm

Categories: Photography • Tags: Bike, Cigarette, Hegelallee, Man in Black, Motorbike, Motorrad, Photo, Steve, Zigarette

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Week 35 – The Mother-in-Law

September 5, 2011 by 53weeks

This is my mother-in-law. Contrary to popular perceptions they’re not all battleaxes. f/4 1/4000 ISO 200 @30mm EDIT: I thought I would give you a “making of shot” of this week’s image. It’s the first time that I have actually appeared in my own blog.

Categories: Photography • Tags: Expat, Family, Görkwitz, Mother in law, Photo, Schleiz, schwiegermutter, Sigma 30 mm 1.4, Thüringen, Thuringia

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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

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Week 31 – Polperro and Stonehenge

August 11, 2011 by 53weeks

These are the last two taken on holiday. The first one shows the lovely fishing village of Polperro which was just down the road from Looe (Cornwall) where we spent the second week of our England and Wales round-trip. The second picture was shot on the way back to Harwich at Stonehenge. f/14 1/125  ISO 400 @17mm f/14 1/250 ISO 400 @30mm Pol. Filter

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Atlantic, Atlantik, Auto, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Blende, Boats, Boot, Canon, Car, Chair, Cornwall, Cottage, English Channel, Expat, f1.8, Fähre, Ferry, Fishing, Fishing village, Foto, Fotos, Great Britain, Harwich, Haus, Hours, House, Humour, Looe, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Polperro, Potsdam, Project, Schiff, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Ship, Sigma, Sitz, Stonehenge, Stones, Stunden, Tourist, Touristen, village, Wales, Wasser, Water, Weeks, Wife, Years

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Week 4 – A Blast from the Past

January 31, 2011 by 53weeks

Karlshorst (Berlin) is the latest “in” urban location for the alternative “new” Berliners (after Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain). Whilst the infrastructure, amenities and general standard of living begin to improve, and the rents increase, it is easy to forget that the district has a very special past. After the unconditional surrender was signed by Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel on the 8th of April 1945 in Karlshorst, the war in Europe came to a close. On the 10th of November […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Ausstellung, Bank, Bench, Berlin, Canon, Capitulation, Chair, DDR, Denkmal, East Germany, Exhibition, Foto, Fotos, GDR, Great Britain, Hours, Images, Karlshorst, Memorial, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Panzer, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Russian, Russisch, Seat, Seconds, Soviet, T-35, Tank, Time, War, Weeks, Winter, WWII, Years

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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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