
Week 46 – The One….
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‘er Indoors!
Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, Colour, Everything, Family, Food Travel, Friend, Glamour, Leica, Partner, Portrait, Sexy, Wife
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‘er Indoors!
Categories: Photography • Tags: Autumn, Colour, Everything, Family, Food Travel, Friend, Glamour, Leica, Partner, Portrait, Sexy, Wife
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There’s a song by a man called Billy Joel which I’d like to dedicate to my accomplice in life. It is she around whom my world has turned for the last nineteen years. It’s called “She’s always a woman” and goes like this: She can kill with a smile She can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child But […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: Accomplice, Billy Joel, Frau, Liebe, Life, Love, Marriage, Thank you, Wife, Woman
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]
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…… on a sunny May afternoon in Neuruppin (1923). f4 1/800 ISO 200 @19mm
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….. or in German the “Lustgarten” which somehow has a more appealing ring to it …….. f14 1/200 ISO 200 @30mm
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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
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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 […]
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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
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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
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
Categories: Photography • Tags: 17-50mm, 50mm, 52, 53, 8, Aperture, Bank, Barmcake, Bench, Berlin, Bilder, Blende, Bolton, Bread, Canon, Chair, Children, Dallgow, Dirty, DoF, Dreck, England, Expat, f1, f1.8, Familie, Family, Fireworks, Foto, Fotos, Frau, Germany, Great Britain, Hours, Humor, Humour, Images, Jahre, Kids, Kinder, Knaller, Leben, Life, Manchester, Minuten, Minutes, Monate, Months, New Year, Photo, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Potsdam, Project, Roll, Scharfentiefe, Seat, Seconds, Sekunden, Sessel, Silvester, Sitz, Stunden, Tamron, Time, Weeks, Wife, Wochen, Years
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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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