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December 2002 Timeline: January 2003 February 2003

Happy New Year 2003!
Munich, 1 January 2003
Moment sums it all up
Munich, 1 January 2003
PW and Vreni
Munich, 1 January 2003
Odyssey
Munich, 1 January 2003
With Marion and Andi, two friends of Vreni's after meat fondue....
Champagne and Fireworks
Later on at a party arranged by Bulgarian architects. I have a couple of photos of PW with this facial expression. I have no idea if it was because of the pure Vodka that they gave us or because of the camera...
Somehow I made it out of the building, wandered aimlessly around Munich and captured the fireworks on the road... No idea how I made it to the train....
On the train home
Munich, 1 January 2003
Map
Munich, 3 January 2003
Finally we can understand something
Munich, 3 January 2003
New hairstyle
Schoenblick, 5 January 2003
Double vision.... After that lying in bed until 5pm....
From the 'Deutsches Museum', the technical museum in Munich. It is highly complicated and some of the exhibitions are at University level. PW and I were wandering around and understood only half of the explanations.
This eye test for example in the optics display....
Doesn't look too bad...
Karin and Vreni
Schoenblick, 5 January 2003
Karin starts a cushion fight
Schoenblick, 5 January 2003
Bernd, Fraenk and myself
Schoenblick, 5 January 2003
101 crossing Barham...
Universal City, 8 January 2003
I showed the first fifteen minutes of my birthday film to Karin, Vreni, Fraenk and PW on the last day before my flight back to LA.
Kids!
Bernd is sweating because he tried out the chili spices christmas present I gave to him.
Have been wanting to shoot this photo for a while now....
Universal City
Universal City, 8 January 2003
Birds in the Sunset
Malibu, 11 January 2003
Dead Tree
Malibu, 11 January 2003
Half Moon
Malibu, 11 January 2003
I like those trails of light of the cars that change lanes....
At Malibu's Lagoon....
And birds sitting on it... with the red clouds in the background
Nice detail....
Wrapped in Plastic
Griffith Park, 12 January 2003
Seagulls in the Sunset
Malibu, 18 January 2003
LAX golden in the sunset....
Malibu, 18 January 2003
Rocks in the Sunset
Malibu, 18 January 2003
One of my fave places in LA, the Griffith Observatory will be closed until 2005....
So one week later, it's full moon... The tide was far, far out... Tide pools with birds everywhere and the sun setting in front of it... Perfect... Too bad this photo has lots of flaws on it (focus and level), otherwise it could be a classic.
When you are at the Malibu state park at sunset, don't miss looking to the other side... Just before the sun sets, the light will reflect off the skyscrapers in the city and the light will shine over....
Reflecting off a tide pool...
Rocks near Trona
Trona, 19 January 2003
Trona
Trona, 19 January 2003
I get the point....
Trona, 19 January 2003
Patterns in the dry dirt
Death Valley, 19 January 2003
Just liked the arrangement...
Wim Wenders once made a film about this place in the middle of nowhere...
I should turn left...
With my cameras in my bag, I rushed to Death Valley to experience the Sand Dunes in the light of the full moon....
Evil side of Windows XP
Death Valley, 19 January 2003
Sand Dunes
Death Valley, 19 January 2003
Waiting....
Death Valley, 19 January 2003
Full Moon Rising
Death Valley, 19 January 2003
Just liked the patterns of the setting sun....
Reached Death Valley and stayed in the middle of the Sand Dunes for four hours until I saw the full moon rising....
The sunset there was not really spectacular... No clouds on the sky... Then several groups ran around a little girl from a Scout group got lost... Meanwhile I just hung around and played with Velvia film on my film SLR....
The moon rose two hours after sunset.... I tried to find a good spot to take a picture against something else, but the moon is too bright so this doesn't work....
Sand Dunes in the moon light
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Popular for photographers
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
First light on the horizon
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Mountains turn red....
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
I got up at 5am the next morning... and walked under the full moon to the sand dunes... This is a long exposure of the dunes under the full moon.... before the sun rose... It was quite cold, but really a nice experience....
A lady with a medium format camera was out there as well waiting for the sunrise... She stood very still....
And then everything went quick....
A brilliant red glow....
Mountains turn yellow and brown....
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
First rays of sun on the dunes....
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Contrast
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Sahara
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
...and then soon went pale.... It reminded me of Uluru, Ayers Rock in Australia changing its colours.
The first warm rays of sun came onto the dunes....
between the shadows and the light....
Not quite....
Footsteps in the sand
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Self Portrait with Tripod
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Full moon over the Dunes
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
My favourite Dune
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Too bad I didn't see any critters....
Lifting the tripod up....
This is 400mm at F64! From a tripod... The depth of field was so big, that all the dust shone up as dirt... I removed the dirt with the healing brush and raised the contrast of the moon by 15%. Otherwise this photo is untouched....
Great shape!
Ghost Town
Rhyolite, 20 January 2003
The Lady of the Valley!
Rhyolite, 20 January 2003
I have no idea....
Rhyolite, 20 January 2003
Devil's Golf Course
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Bank building in Rhyolite, a ghost town near Death Valley....
A pink huge naked woman out of what looks like Lego overlooking the valley.... Nevada is weird!
...what this means... Here is the pink lego sculpture, full with yellow square pubic hair and in front of it sculptures of mourning widows or something... It turned out this was some form of outdoor museum by some Belgium artist... Truly strange....
'Only the devil would play golf here'.
Back once more....
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Salt Path
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Salt Surface
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
Salt Field at Badwater
Death Valley, 20 January 2003
At Badwater in Death Valley... The third time actually...
At Badwater... Luckily, the temperature wasn't too bad....
Looks like Snow...
And then it was time to head back....
Sunset
Trona, 20 January 2003
Golden Sand
Malibu, 25 January 2003
Another weekend trip
Yellowstone, 31 January 2003
Very nice atmosphere....
Another nice day at Malibu!
Joe and myself flew to Salt Lake, then drove 5 hours and arrived in Yellowstone, Montana....
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