A boy and his camera....
October 1984 | ||
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| One of our masterpieces when we were to shoot 'autumn leaves' for our school photographic society. Needless to say that Mr. Achatz wasn't very impressed and we weren't impressed with the society either, so we left soon after.... | ||
Going postal....
December 1984 | ||
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| With Timi on one of our very first photo-sessions, where we just tried to do as many silly things as possible.... | ||
Tim and his car
June 1985 | ||
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| For some reason there was a Ferrari in Freising and Timi wanted a photo pretending it was his car with some keys in his hands. His true vehicle is behind the red devil, but pshhht.... | ||
Altpapier
April 1986 | ||
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| Timi and myself sitting in a waste paper container during one of our photosessions. Some people came by and were shaking their heads.... | ||
More posing
September 1987 | ||
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| It's fun to see how PW looked seven years later.... What a contrast.... | ||
600 milimetres
September 1987 | ||
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| After his vacation in Tunesia, PW wanted to impress a girl that he met there by taking some 'cool photos'. This was taken with an Ilford HP5 pushed to 3200 and 300 milimetres with an 2x extender.... | ||
Later at night....
16 July 1995 | ||
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| After the concert, long talks with Timi on how to proceed. Next day, the long letter.... | ||
Looks like a negative....
August 1996 | ||
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| Compare this photo to the tanned, blonde face of Bernd returning from the West Indies and you have the ultimate contrast..... | ||
BA Juli
August 1996 | ||
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| This was taken sometime after I finished my BA.... | ||
Mai in der Braus'n
1 May 1998 | ||
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| Me on my short trip home to Germany after my Masters exams.... | ||
Lustig samma'
31 March 2000 | ||
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| Group photo of our 'Wiedersehen' in my local pub.... | ||
With mouths wide open.....
31 March 2000 | ||
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| Fast alles Zahnarztpatienten von Dr. Springer | ||
Mei, wia liab
31 March 2000 | ||
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| Nope, no couple..... | ||
Zuenftig is'
31 March 2000 | ||
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| Nope, no couple either | ||
On the prowl
1 April 2000 | ||
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| I wonder what went through his head at this point.... | ||
Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund
2 April 2000 | ||
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| Well.... sunrise but still up... the field just behind my home..... | ||
Gelatine, gelatine!!!!
3 April 2000 | ||
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| Karin returning from her mission to get me some Haribo gummi bears..... | ||
Ally McDentist
15 September 2000 | ||
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| Verena kind of has an Ally McBeal look on this one.... | ||
Karins Busen
15 September 2000 | ||
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| She can put 8 liters of beer on those two, when she works as a waitress at the October fest.... | ||
Bernd and Carmen
23 December 2000 | ||
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| Bernd and his brandnew toy ;-) | ||
Plantagenweg fast vereint
23 December 2000 | ||
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| Am Weihnachtsvorabend in der Brause mit Inga und Fraenk.... Ohne Blitzlicht.... | ||
Besinnliches Zusammensein
23 December 2000 | ||
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| Wie immer halt am gleichen Ort..... | ||
Blaed samma!
26 December 2000 | ||
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| Weihnachtsspaziergang.... with Oli and myself behaving like 5 and 8 year olds... Grabbing sticks and running around and trying to annoy our parents.... | ||
Ministry of Silly Walks
26 December 2000 | ||
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| Another photo from our Xmas walk.... where the silly mood we were in becomes extra-evident.... | ||
Schafkopf'n
31 December 2000 | ||
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| With Fraenk playing the Bavarian national card game Schafkopfn.... | ||
Breathe in - in Wieswald
31 December 2000 | ||
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| Walk through the forest next to our home... You can only imagine how fresh the air is.... | ||
Old friends
18 May 2001 | ||
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| Me and my old friend Timi walking around Freising's downtown.... | ||
Ein bisschen Spass muss sein....
18 May 2001 | ||
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| Another indication of Freising's beerfestivals going downhill | ||
Larry Ellison's Man
19 May 2001 | ||
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| Kup and a glass of Bavarian Culture | ||
Baehda!
19 May 2001 | ||
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| My friend Peter who I hadn't seen for about two years.... | ||
Family Ties
20 May 2001 | ||
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| Two GPS nerds with their obsession.... | ||
Muatta und Bua im Wieswald
20 May 2001 | ||
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| My mum and myself sitting in the grass in the forest next to our house.... | ||
Bird's view of my hometown
6 July 2001 | ||
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| Bird's view out of the plane of my hometown, the Domstadt Freising (Dom refers to the church with the two clock towers) | ||
Garteln
6 July 2001 | ||
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| It's July, it's warm, what better way to spend the evening than in a beergarden..... | ||
Auf'm Dorffest
7 July 2001 | ||
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| Karin and myself as the city idiots, while hanging out with the village idiots... | ||
Clubbing Bavarian Style
7 July 2001 | ||
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| This is what they do out in the countryside - they put a tent up in some farmer's village and play really bad techno music and it quickly fills up..... | ||
Traditional Christmas Eve
25 December 2001 | ||
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| Is meeting up with friends in nearby pubs and bars where people join you often just after they went to christmas midnight mass.... Here what I didn't realize was that Hille is sitting at the back of the table.... I ended up hanging out with him in the bars until 4am.... | ||
Worst New Years Eve ever....
31 December 2001 | ||
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| Took us ages to get to the party where we were going to spend NYE.... so when we got there the party was full and noone was going to be admitted.... So it was 20 minutes before NYE and nowhere to go.... | ||
Carmen and Jasmin
31 December 2001 | ||
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| 10 minutes to go and stranded nowhere... You can see the joy on Jasmin's face.... They and Bernd ended up driving up to munich and dropped me off at the Marienplatz where I met up with Karin and her friends.... At midnight I was in the car.... | ||
Finally a party.....
1 January 2002 | ||
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| So with Karin and her friends we toured the various villages and parties... Here we were in a small cellar underneath a barn in Attaching.... | ||
Heidi, Caro and Manu
1 January 2002 | ||
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| Three of Karin's and Bernhard's friends that toured the villages with us on New Years Eve... | ||
Through a glass darkly
4 January 2002 | ||
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| Karin at the Porta-Fina restaurant..... | ||
Glass with christmas lights....
5 January 2002 | ||
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| PW through another glass in the B-trieb bar. | ||
Alle Jahre wieder
5 January 2002 | ||
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| Every time I am back, Verena invites me for a special visit... | ||
Vreni at work
5 January 2002 | ||
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| I know it's a strange photo.... No need to tell me.... | ||
J's 9 Reunited!
19 July 2002 | ||
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| Even Inga was there on that weekend.... | ||
Dom
24 July 2002 | ||
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| The church hill of my hometown. | ||
Freising
24 July 2002 | ||
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| Part of my home-town from the bird's eye view.... | ||
Wheat
28 July 2002 | ||
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| Weizen... Weizen... Weizen.... Quoted just out of 'Love and Death'.... | ||
Bavarian Breakfast
29 July 2002 | ||
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| Some 'Weisswuerscht', Pretzels and beer make a traditional Bavarian breakfast.... | ||
Auf gehts zum Freisinger Volksfest!
13 September 2002 | ||
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| With Peter and beer.... | ||
Drunk people do anything....
13 September 2002 | ||
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| Even sing and dance on the tables.... | ||
Beer wants to leave the body....
13 September 2002 | ||
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| Long queues at the toilet.... | ||
Weinzelt
13 September 2002 | ||
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| When you end up here, you know it is the beginning of the end and tomorrow will be ruled by a headache.... | ||
Tipsy Karin
13 September 2002 | ||
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| Smoking on the day before she has to sing.... | ||
Ludi and Sarah
13 September 2002 | ||
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| Ludwig sat next to me in school about 22 years ago.... Haven't seen him for ten years, maybe... And Sarah is the daughter of my mum's best friend.... Everyone meets up at the Volksfest once a year.... It's a ritual... Good that I brought my camera - otherwise I'd forgotten about everyone I met.... | ||
More Weinzelt
13 September 2002 | ||
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| ...the evening heads towards morning.... | ||
Orchester Buerger Kreitmeier
23 December 2002 | ||
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| The brains behind 'Schultze und Schmidt'! | ||
Inga and Fraenk
23 December 2002 | ||
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| At the oddly (and idiotically) named 'Pornstarparty' at the Lindenkeller in Freising. | ||
Forest Walk
6 October 2003 | ||
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| A Herrgottswinkel alongside my regular walk near my home.... | ||
Autumn
6 October 2003 | ||
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| A leaf, stepped upon on the grovel road.... Beautiful nonetheless... | ||
Wieswald
15 October 2003 | ||
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| I like the shadows on this photo.... | ||
Crucifix
15 October 2003 | ||
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| A close up of a Crucifix alongside my Wieswald walk... | ||
Herrgottswinkel
15 October 2003 | ||
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| Everywhere in Bavaria you have these little stations for prayer.... I like the corn cobs on that one... | ||
Camouflage
15 October 2003 | ||
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| Perfect camouflage! | ||
Macro Butterfly
15 October 2003 | ||
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| He was moving fast, but not fast enough for my 100mm/2.8 Macro. This is uncropped... Great shot! | ||
Autumn Tree through a toilet window
16 October 2003 | ||
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| A look on the tree next door through our toilet window. It looks like an amazing painting or like an overused photoshop filter. Dani thought it looks like a dancing hippo wearing sunglasses and a grass skirt.... | ||
Bernhard, Inga and Frank
23 December 2003 | ||
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| Meeting all up at a Lindenkeller party... Waiting for Karin to come by... | ||
Ice Crystals
24 December 2003 | ||
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| Forming on our window.... | ||
Summer time is Macro Time Pt. 1
29 July 2004 | ||
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Summer time is Macro Time Pt. 2
30 July 2004 | ||
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Summer time is Macro Time Pt. 3
30 July 2004 | ||
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Bavarian Xmas
24 December 2004 | ||
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| After everyone has rushed out for final shopping, you head off for some Weisswuerscht and beer before heading off home for the more solemn atmosphere. | ||
Bavarian National Hymn
24 December 2004 | ||
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| We all had to sing it before the place shuts down.... | ||
Long time no see
25 December 2004 | ||
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| And late, late night after I got all my presents I headed out and met some old friends from primary school.... | ||
Weekend Family Walk
14 May 2005 | ||
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Huuuuuuuuuiiiiiiii
14 May 2005 | ||
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| Mama and Oli on a swing.... | ||
Lasur
21 May 2005 | ||
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| Dani creating a 'Lasur' wallpainting with several layers of colors... | ||
...back to snowy Bavaria...
19 November 2005 | ||
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Christmas Morning
25 December 2005 | ||
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| Very relaxing.... | ||
Easter breakfast
16 April 2006 | ||
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| Yummy! | ||
Easter sun
16 April 2006 | ||
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| Wet day, but with beautiful sparks of sunshine breaking through.... | ||
More flowers....
17 April 2006 | ||
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Bud
17 April 2006 | ||
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| Gorgeous flower hidden underneath... | ||
Reunion
29 July 2006 | ||
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| It's been 15 years! | ||
And the group photo gets taken by Fraenk
29 July 2006 | ||
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Class reunion photo excerpt
29 July 2006 | ||
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And the last people
30 July 2006 | ||
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| still hung around at 3am... I was jetlagged having returned just a day earlier anyway.... | ||
Freising Sunset
5 November 2006 | ||
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| Nice sunset, nice autumn... | ||
Christmas Morning
26 December 2006 | ||
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| Always nice to see our old Oak tree in its christmas glory... | ||
Eastertime!
8 April 2007 | ||
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| Time to turn the tables! Mama and Daddy get easter nests! | ||
Hometown from the air
13 July 2007 | ||
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| Yes, it's Freising, while landing at MUC. | ||
My property
20 July 2007 | ||
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| Bought myself an apartment as an investment... | ||
Like father like son....
27 July 2007 | ||
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| Timi and Bjarne. Visiting Freising and it was great to meet up with them. | ||
Like mother like daughter
27 July 2007 | ||
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| Bente and Emma Marieke... | ||
Flew through a storm....
4 September 2007 | ||
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| ...on the flight home.... | ||
Emerging from the rain....
4 September 2007 | ||
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| Even a spot of blue sky visible... | ||
Reflections from the wet asphalt
4 September 2007 | ||
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| Of the roads below... | ||
Halloween
9 September 2007 | ||
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| Is close.... | ||
New contrast tests
9 September 2007 | ||
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| With the new Canon Camera.... | ||
Sunshine and Stormy Clouds
9 September 2007 | ||
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| Make the nicest photos... | ||
Field
9 September 2007 | ||
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Million Bells
9 September 2007 | ||
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| In their new home... They did well until mid-December... | ||
Christmas Night
25 December 2007 | ||
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| And we had lots of fresh snow... | ||
Easter Night Service
23 March 2008 | ||
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| Been a long time since I attended one of them. The service starts at five in the morning and the church is in total darkness. The light outside is blessed and then carried inside and distributed in the church. | ||
Burning Cross
23 March 2008 | ||
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| Signalises the victory over the cross and reclaims the cross as symbol. | ||
Fraenk and Wendelin
11 May 2008 | ||
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| At the Freising Garden Days... | ||
Three layers of Spring
11 May 2008 | ||
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| Blue sky, Canola and the stems... | ||
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