Impressions from the town of Port Laois in Ireland, captured during a short business trip.
The last stop of our road trip was a night in London. In the evening time we had a walk across Canary Wharf, probably the most modern part of London.
Short visit at the Urquahrf Castle close to Inverness and Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
A surreal landscape on the northern end of the Irish island. It has a magic of its own and even with today's geological knowledge it is an incredible sigh.
The main destination of our holidays was the green island in the northwestern part of Europe. In times of draughts and heat waves in the central part of our continent it was a welcome change to see green pastures all over the trip.
On our holiday trip to Ireland and Scotland we had a stop-over in Normandy and taking the occasion to visit one of France's most famous monument.
Istanbul is a metropolis of its own. During our 8 days stay I could only capture a fraction of the impressions in my pictures. Enjoy a visual trip that reflects only a fraction of the beauty of this town.
Yalvaç is the home town of my wife. We usually travel there every second summer and each stay in this small town in the centre of Anatolia is extremely relaxing.
For more than ten years I have passed each week at least two times below this impressing viaduct. And so often I thought it would be a nice scenery some pictures. In November 2021 - finally - on a snowy day I had the right equipment inside my photo bag and the time. It was by the end fo the day, light was nearly fading and I found this particular light condition that made the results some kind of surreal, straight coming from a frosty Movie (I was thinking of Snowpiercer).
After taking several pictures from below the bridge I walked up a service road leading nearly to the top of the viaduct and could take one night picture before going home. The last picture was on the next morning. The weather was better but the result was less spectacular in my eyes.
I have always been attracted by observing people at work. When you take an intense look at professional activities you can state that in every work process you find a high degree of skills, technique and often physical efforts.
Being a good craftsman in many disciplines myself I have a high appreciation for a well done work.
In autumn 2021 I had the chance to attend a team of roadmen who were tarmacking the access road to my neighbour’s site.
During the days of preparing the road for the final step of bituminisation we got in touch and so, on the day when they made the asphalt, I got the chance to fix some moments of their working day in my pictures.
I realised that tarmacking is a work that requires a good choreography of the entire squad. The main surfaces are made with the road finisher but all the finitions on the edges, junctions and areas that are too steep are prepared mainly manually before the roller compactor can pass.
I invite you to have a closer look at this work that we often only see in the angle of an eye when passing a road construction zone.
This summer I had one of the few chances to go to a live concert in Switzerland. I took my Leica M2 with me and three rolls of Kodak Double X - And I was amazed by the results that I consider worth to be shared here. I really love the highlights created from the spotlights. Compared to my digital pictures taken on musical events I do not have to struggle with blown out highlights. Thank you Kodak! All pictures exposed ISO 250-400 and taken with a 1957 rigid Summicron 50mm.
During a short business trip to London I took my camera with some rolls of Kodak Tri-X with me. Instead taking a taxi from the Victoria station to my hotel I chose to have a 2 hours walk and captured some impressions of this very special city. A decision that I did not regret although if it was a cold and rainy evening.
The next morning welcomed me with sun. So again I chose to walk instead of taking public transports and capture the winter sun that shone across a hazy white sky. The architectural canyons the the english capital created a wonderful light-and-shadow pattern. I nearly came too late to my appointment.
In October 2019 I finally had the occasion to make a short Norway trip together with my brother. Until 2007 I travelled a lot to Scandinavia, mostly alone by car or motorbike and setting up my the somewhere in the wilderness. When my broth and me were young adults we have made several motorbike trips together with my dad to the very north of Europe.
Later priorities in life changed and we did not get back to this beautiful region of our continent until end 2019 (and lucky wise we did, just before Covid cut down any possibilities of planned travelling).
A place that I have visited near every time I was in Norway is Røros, a small town one day trip north of Oslo with a third millenium of mining history (if I remember well exactly 333 years). The region is part of the Unesco wold heritage and the old mining facilities often are still well visible while man made installations are mostly left to its natural decay.
It was the first time that I have been at those places at the very end of autumn and with a digital camera. Here you can find some impressions.