Tag: Time
Fire Starter
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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
The Seaside…. Part One
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Back to Jenny Brown’s point to visit Muffer……
Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, Children, Cooking, Culture, Death, environment, Family, Fear, Food, Grandchildren, Grandparents, Grange over Sands, Health, Jenny's Brown Point, Life, Offspring, Parents, Passing, Passion, Politics, religion, Sadness, Seaside, Season, Technology, Time, Travel
Week 39 – Checkpoint Bravo (West)…..
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…..otherwise know as “Grenzübergangsstelle Drewitz-Dreilinden” in the East. This week’s post continues the cold war theme. Rolleiflex 3.5 F (Mark III / IV) Carl Zeiss Planar 3.5f Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak T-Max 400 (Rodinal 1:50) Epson V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Allies, Architecture, Cold War, East Germany, Family, Life, Politics, Time, Transit, Travel
Week 32 – I woz ere….
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…… and “ere” is Beelitz-Heilstätten if you fancy looking it up. I’ll probably be back in winter with snow and ice …. Fuji GA 645 PRO Fujinon 1:4 f=60mm Fuji Pro 400H (Expired) Epson Perfection V500
Categories: Photography • Tags: Analog, Derelict, Food, Health, History, Life, Old, Time, Tourism, Travel
Week 22 – Our Hols (Part 2)….
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Okay here comes part two…. Sorry about the obligatory “Elk-Shot”, if you pardon the pun, but it just had to be done! Does anybody know the significance of Friedolf’s bakery in the next to last shot? Canon 5D Canon 24-105 f4 Aperture and NIK and Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Author, Creative, Crime, Culture, Family, Food, Life, Mankell, Sea, Sweden, Swimming, Thriller, Time, Travel, Wallander, Writing
Week 21 – Our Hols…. (Part One)
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It’s the first time I’ve been to Sweden and it certainly lived up to my expectations in every way. The children and I found plenty of highly qualified candidates suitable for the position of a Swedish Au Pair, a subject which has long been discussed within the family 😉 Canon 5D Canon 24-105 f4 Aperture and NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Family, Food, Port, Scandinavia, Sea, Sport, Summer, Sweden, Time, Travel
Week 19 – O Captain, My Captain ….
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the Meisterschaft is ours…… In all the years I played the game, I don’t believe I ever once won the league or captained my team. Not bad for his second year of active club football! Canon 5D Canon 24-105 f4 Aperture and NIK f8 1/500 ISO 400 @24mm
Categories: Photography • Tags: Boy, Family, Food, Football, Kids, School, Soccer, Sport, Success, Time
Week 18 – Time to go….
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A good friend and colleague retired last week. Although we didn’t always see eye to eye, he will be remembered as one of the last pioneers, never accepting the boundaries we so often struggle to overcome. Canon 5D Canon f1.8 85mm Aperture and Yashica MAT 124G Yashinon f3.5 80mm Fuji Pro 400H
Categories: Photography • Tags: Career, Employment, Food, Job, Leisure, Politics, Portrait, Retire, Time, Travel
Week 17 – Rain and Eis
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It’s never too cold or too wet for ice cream….. Fujifilm X100 Fujinon f2 23mm Aperture and NIK
Categories: Photography • Tags: Entertainment, Food, Fun, Ice Cream, Music, Street Photography, Time, Transport, Travel, Weather
Week 44 – The Faces I see….
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…. and the sounds I hear! Seriously though, it is a little spooky especially when you see the light streams. Just one car drove past while I was taking the shot (the main two horizontal stripes at the bottom of the picture) and there was no one else around, so I’ve absolutely no idea where the others came from. Bit of a weak week this week, sorry!
Categories: Photography • Tags: Art, Family, Ghost, Life, Night, Paranormal, Scared, Shadows, Time, Travel
Week 42 – The Berlinische Gallery
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I sneaked some time to myself and went to the Berlinische Gallery to see “THE SHUTTERED SOCIETY” – ART PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE GDR 1949-1989 If you happen to be in Berlin until the end of January it’s well worth a visit: http://www.berlinischegalerie.de/en/home.html P.S. It’s cheating I know, but I think it looks good anyway! 😉
Categories: Photography • Tags: Analogue, Art, Exhibition, Family, Gallery, German Democratic Republic, High-Key, Relax, Time, Travel
Week 32 – The Belvedere ….. again
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I’m being very lenient with myself this week, not only am I using the British definition of a week (i.e. Sunday to Saturday, instead of the German Monday to Sunday), but I’m also posting something for the second time (see week 1) albeit from a very different angle.
Categories: Photography • Tags: Culture, Health, History, Humour, Life, Summer, Sun, Time, Tourist, Travel
Week 32 – Sanssouci Rose
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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
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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
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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…….
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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…..
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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
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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
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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
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…… 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
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….. 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….
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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)
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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
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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!
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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 11 – Park Babelsberg
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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 10 – ….. Hong Kong
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Aren’t I a lucky boy? I don’t just get to partake in a business trip to Hong Kong, but I also get to invest in a brand new razor-sharp Sigma 30mm 1.4 whilst I’m there. This was shot from pier 9, Central district, Hong Kong Island looking across to Kowloon where the MS Queen Elizabeth was moored. I did try to persuade quite a number of people to let me take their picture on a bank, but they were not […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 1.4, 30mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Canon, Central, Chair, Cunard, Elizabeth, Expat, Foto, Fotos, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Kowloon, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, MS Queen Elizabeth, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Pier 9, QE, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sigma, Sitz, Star Ferry, Stunden, Time, Weeks, Years
Week 8 – Zum Zipfelteich
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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 […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Blende, Canon, Chair, Family, Foto, Fotos, Frozen, Görkwitz, Gefroren, Germany, Hours, Humor, Humour, Ice, Images, Landscape, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Portait, Project, Schleiz, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Snow, Stunden, Time, Water, Weeks, Wife, Winter, Years, Zipfelteich
Week 7 – The Expatriate
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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
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Blende, Canon, Chair, England, Expat, expatriate, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Monate, Months, Peter, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Years
Week 6 – BOGOF
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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 […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 35mm, 50mm, Aperture, Bank, Bench, Blende, BOBFOC, BOGOF, Canon, Canon 40D, Chair, Foto, Fotos, Germany, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Minutes, Monate, Months, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Project, reduced, River, sale, Schleiz, Schlussverkauf, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Sitz, Snow, sonderverkauf, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wisenta, Years
Week 4 – A Blast from the Past
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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
Week 3 – Moody Skies in the Depth of Winter
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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
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 52 weeks, 52 Wochen, 53 Weeks, 53 Wochen, Bank, Bench, Bild, Celebrations, Days, Deutschland, f10, Family, Feier, Foto, Fotografie, Görkwitz, Germany, Himmel, Hours, Image, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, Photo, Photography, Pictures, Schleiz, Schnee, Seconds, Sekunden, Sky, Snow, Stunden, Tage, Tamron, Thüringen, Thuringia, Time, Weeks, Winter, Zeit
Week 2 Potsdam – “The-Bread-Roll-Run”
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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
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“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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