Week 32 – Sanssouci Rose

Posted on August 17, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years1 Comment

This was shot during a rainy Sunday stroll through Sanssouci…..

f/4 1/125 ISO 400 @30mm

Week 31 – Polperro and Stonehenge

Posted on August 11, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years1 Comment

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

Week 30 – Muffer

Posted on August 9, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years2 Comments

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)

Week 28 – Don’t you just love blondes…….

Posted on July 18, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years1 Comment

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

Week 26 – Kim Wilde and the Siblings

Posted on July 4, 2011July 4, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged "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, Years1 Comment

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 first shot was taken as a candid during Kim Wilde’s “Cambodia”. My covert skills obviously leave a lot to be desired as my subjects quickly spotted my intentions. The second shot was taken with their kind permission.

My thanks go to these unknown siblings on a bench.

f/4 1/25 ISO 800 @50mm

Week 26 - Kim Wilde — Kim Wilde in Potsdam

f/5 1/8 ISO 1250 @30mm

Week 23 – Rainy Milano

Posted on June 13, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years1 Comment

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.

Week 23 - Rainy Milano MKI — Rainy Milano

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 400 @30mm

week 23 - Rainy Milano MKII — Rainy Milano Again

Week 20 – The Avenue

Posted on May 24, 2011May 24, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years1 Comment

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

Week 20 - The Avenue — From the Orangery to the Dragonhouse (Belvedere)

Week 17 – The Pleasure Garden

Posted on May 2, 2011May 5, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years1 Comment

….. or in German the “Lustgarten” which somehow has a more appealing ring to it ……..

f14 1/200 ISO 200 @30mm

Week 17 - Lustgarten — The Pleasure Garden

Week 12 – Katharinenholz

Posted on March 28, 2011March 28, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years3 Comments

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

Week 11 – Park Babelsberg

Posted on March 21, 2011March 21, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Yorkshireman4 Comments

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 weeks on a bank”. Although both are of questionable heritage with regard to the English language and everything else for that matter, (one being a Geordie and the other a Yorkshireman), I will none the less adapt my “Germisch” or “Dinglisch” title to the correct “Bench”.

It would have been kind if someone would have let me know a little earlier, to which my better half will undoubtedly say “I told you so!” and she is German…… nuff said!

f1.4 1/8000 ISO 200 @30mm

Week 10 – ….. Hong Kong

Posted on March 13, 2011March 14, 2011 Posted in PhotographyTagged 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, Years1 Comment

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 in the slightest interested (it must have been my handsome appearance).

f1.4 1/40 ISO 800 30mm

Facing Reality – Faces on Film

Tag: Sigma

Week 32 – Sanssouci Rose

Week 31 – Polperro and Stonehenge

Week 30 – Muffer

Week 28 – Don’t you just love blondes…….

Week 26 – Kim Wilde and the Siblings

Week 23 – Rainy Milano

Week 20 – The Avenue

Week 17 – The Pleasure Garden

Week 12 – Katharinenholz

Week 11 – Park Babelsberg

Week 10 – ….. Hong Kong

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