Berlin, May 11th 2012, Fuji X100

Hamburg, July 18th 2012, Fuji X100

Hamburg, April 16th 2012.

Had a pretty heavy rain shower today here in Hamburg. I snapped this one out of my window which was open all the time. I like the sound and the smell of the rain, especially if it was warm before. Have a nice sunday evening.

The summer in Hamburg is finally here – at least for a few days. So yesterday we decided to have a small barbecue celebrating our QUOTE.fm iPad app beta. I had a hard time deciding between processing the photos in color or black and white. I went with the latter as you can see. I think it’s harder to take and develop a good black and white image but I think it turned out well. Stay with me or just wait until Marcel posts his color photos from yesterday afternoon.

I discovered the documentary work of Daniel Milnor already some time ago but got distracted by other photographers and styles. Now I’m back to reading a lot about his work and his thoughts as well as viewing his photographs. I’m trying to understand what he’s doing and why he’s doing it. Gone are the days of skipping over blogposts with a bunch of photos without reading the text accompanying them. Or at least that’s how I want it to be.

Daniel also does a lot of videos in which he presents photos and gives a back story and some advice. One of the best is about environmental portraits and you can watch it below.

On our trip to Bonn last week we stayed at the InterCity Hotel next to the main station. The room was okay and the breakfast good. Just the view out of my window wasn’t quite that nice, but as someone pointed out to me on Facebook, it seems to summarize the look of Bonn quite well.
No offense.

This is how it would look like if Cartier-Bresson was blogging.

Yesterday the weather wasn’t as good as the previous days, but we were okay with that. We gave the rented bikes back, took a walk in the inner city of „Burg“, ate fish, saw the amazing Spider-Man, which we liked very much and at the end of the day ate ice cream.
Today the weather is even worse so I don’t know if there will be any more photos from Fehmarn, but I had a lot of fun shooting here and I like the series from yesterday very much although or even because there are no blue ocean shots.

Als ich irgendwann im Januar auf meine Bahnmitfahrer gewartet habe, entschloss ich mich einfach ein bisschen im Hamburger Hauptbahnhof umher zu laufen und Leute zu fotografieren. Wie so oft, einfach mal abwarten was passiert und was ich interessantes sehe. Als ich mir die Fotos gestern Abend mal wieder anschaute fiel mir eine immer wiederkehrende Situation auf: Menschen vor Fahrplänen oder Fahrkartenautomaten, die verwirrt drein schauten.
Als regelmäßiger Bahnfahrer bin ich damit vertraut, dass Züge verspätet sind, von anderen Gleisen abfahren, die Wagons in umgekehrter Reihenfolge verkehren oder was halt sonst noch so alles schief geht bei der Bahn. Ich kann mir aber gut vorstellen, dass solche Dinge durchaus zu Problemen und Verwirrungen sorgen können und am Ende verwirrte Gesichter übrig bleiben.

Ich finde die Fotos okay, nicht super gut, aber ich sehe Potential. Da ich regelmäßig Bahn fahre und dadurch immer wieder ungewollte Wartezeiten habe (Danke DB!), könnte das ein schönes Langzeitprojekt für mich sein.