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This freaked me out...
Berlin, 2 September 2007 		Field
Berlin, 2 September 2007 		Confused Cold Dummies
Berlin, 2 September 2007 		The brilliant innovation that is:
Berlin, 3 September 2007
Walking around at IFA this year taking a break from Blu-ray work, this really freaked me out, since it reminded me so much of the Korean War Memorial.
Really quite strange, but photogenic exhibition
 As I said, this reminded me of the Korean War Memorial.
Pages from Ceefax - still going on, since MHP died its grizzly death. Weird to see it promoted again, though.
Beware!
Berlin, 3 September 2007 		Posters
Berlin, 3 September 2007 		Sunset
Berlin, 3 September 2007 		Concrete
Berlin, 3 September 2007
Of the Trolleyman! At IFA now for the second year the same three horror visitors for people answering questions showed up, the Panasonic Groupie, the guy with the wart and the Trolleyman...
Fifty of these Vodafone posters plus some in the hall in 20 meter high posters accompanied me every day, confusing me a bit giving me too many memories.
over Alexanderplatz....
 Kind of looking nice with the concrete and warm sunlight....
Hochhaus
Berlin, 3 September 2007 		Galleria
Berlin, 3 September 2007 		Flew through a storm....
Freising, 4 September 2007 		Emerging from the rain....
Freising, 4 September 2007
Was fun to take these photos....
...and the television tower in the setting sun...
 ...on the flight home....
 Even a spot of blue sky visible...
Reflections from the wet asphalt
Freising, 4 September 2007 		Camera Tests
Munich, 9 September 2007 		Focus Tests
Munich, 9 September 2007 		Halloween
Freising, 9 September 2007
Of the roads below...
I upgraded my Canon 20D with a Canon 40D. Since I was going to head out to Japan in a few weeks, I had to make several tests.
At the underground before heading to Freising.
 Is close....
New contrast tests
Freising, 9 September 2007 		Sunshine and Stormy Clouds
Freising, 9 September 2007 		Field
Freising, 9 September 2007 		Million Bells
Freising, 9 September 2007
With the new Canon Camera....
Make the nicest photos...
In their new home... They did well until mid-December...
Warm Autumn
Munich, 14 September 2007 		Macrotest
Munich, 14 September 2007 		Some birds
Munich, 15 September 2007 		Rail bridge
Munich, 15 September 2007
We had a hot spring, a wet summer and a few days of nice and warm autumn....
Quick focus on the bubbles...
 Flying alongside the Kraftwerk
 And graffiti....
Cross
Munich, 15 September 2007 		Isar
Munich, 16 September 2007 		First Wiesn Day
Munich, 22 September 2007 		Wiesn Visitors
Munich, 22 September 2007
Rust and cables - always nice for a photo...
On an autumn afternoon....
 We started early in the morning... Matthias, Dominik, Bernd and Ben... can't find a tent to go to...
 Actually Dominik's cousin (on the right) and his friend.
Let's find another place
Munich, 22 September 2007 		Tent in the sky...
Munich, 22 September 2007 		Muffathalle
Munich, 22 September 2007 		Karussell
Munich, 22 September 2007
No chance to get into any of the tents....
As unavailable as those at the Wiesn... As seen from the Muffathalle....
 Our alternative Oktoberfest at the Muffathalle beergarden... And a few taxi rides later we were back....
People dangling from the Sky
Munich, 22 September 2007 		Chains
Munich, 22 September 2007 		Blimp
Munich, 22 September 2007 		Faces of the Oktoberfest
Munich, 22 September 2007

From the merry go round...
Here you see it all: the beersmooch, the hunter's eye, it's a great couple of weeks, too bad I would be in Japan.
Space Travel
Munich, 22 September 2007 		One day later....
Munich, 23 September 2007 		Wiesn Crowds
Munich, 23 September 2007 		Drillinge
Munich, 23 September 2007
At least it feels like it...
This time I made it inside the Schottenhamel tent. You can see the smoke from cigarettes and the band...

The German word for Triplet. Saw them and I thought it was fun to take a photo of them and their sister.
Kusunoki Masashige
Tokyo, 28 September 2007 		Behind this...
Tokyo, 28 September 2007 		Tokyo Skyline
Tokyo, 28 September 2007 		Emperor's Palace
Tokyo, 28 September 2007
A statue of the legendary Samurai who became the patron of the Kamikaze soldiers during WW2.
...is where the Emperor lives....
 With the Roppongi Tower.
High security all around...
Swans
Tokyo, 28 September 2007 		One swan
Tokyo, 28 September 2007 		Tokyo Station
Tokyo, 28 September 2007 		Blue Sky
Tokyo, 28 September 2007


A great old Victorian style building!
 With some tall buildings...
Tokyo International Forum
Tokyo, 28 September 2007 		Dinner 1: Beer
Ginza, 28 September 2007 		Dinner 1: Special Tempura
Ginza, 28 September 2007 		Shinkyo Bridge
Nikko, 29 September 2007
With its famous ship architecture....

Almost too greasy for me...
This bridge is the entrance area to the famous World Heritage site...
Shinkyo Bridge
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Mark
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Rinnoji Doors
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		More photo of Rinnoji doors...
Nikko, 29 September 2007

On a copper fountain....
 Behind this temple were three of the most amazing Buddha statues - the Kami - Buddhist reincarnations of Shinto gods. Unfortunately no photography. Must see!
 ...liked the light on that day...
Gates of Nikko
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Pagoda in the forest
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Monkeys
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Creatures in the Ornaments
Nikko, 29 September 2007

The most amazing thing about Nikko are the mighty old, wise trees that surrounds it... And seeing this ancient, mighty Pagoda through for forest was a fantastic sight!

Creatures in the Ornaments
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Temples
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		To the gate to Yomeimon
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Yomeimon
Nikko, 29 September 2007



Most amazing!!! The ornaments on this old piece of art were breathtaking!
Sights of Nikko
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Samurai
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Roof
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Nikko, 29 September 2007
Trees and temples of all shapes

I love this photo - like with so many I don't know why....
Rinzo Doors
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Gate
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Guardian Statues
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Sights of Nikko
Nikko, 29 September 2007

Up into the higher temple area....
 At the Nitenmon gate...
I am ignorant, but I guess these are houses for spirits? Either way they are beautiful....
Roof patterns
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		The Eye
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		God of the Sea
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Kokamon Gate Door
Nikko, 29 September 2007

Just mesmerizing...

Amazing Ornaments....
Kokamon Gate
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Hand of the God of Thunder
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Green God of Wind
Nikko, 29 September 2007 		Green Moss
Nikko, 29 September 2007


Statue at the Nitenmon Gate....
Roppongi Pet Store
Roppongi, 29 September 2007 		Roppongi Pet Store
Roppongi, 29 September 2007 		Dinner 2: Tuna Gone Wild
Roppongi, 29 September 2007 		Temple of Jizo
Kamakura, 30 September 2007

Some of the sweet little puppies look rather lost and wanting to be rescued...
Just Tuna - and spot the Toro - the belly fat...
The patron saint for the unborn souls of children who have been miscarried or unborn...
Faces of Icons...
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Hundreds of tiny statues...
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		More statues
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Even more statues
Kamakura, 30 September 2007




Dedicated to Unborn Children
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Kannon
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Kannon
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Buddha of Wealth
Kamakura, 30 September 2007
No matter if they were miscarried or aborted. I really felt that our Catholic church lacks this type of memory - and I liked that the way the soul was remembered didn't matter how the soul was lost.


Big bag of money, laughing all the way to the bank....
Daibutsu
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Inside the Buddha
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Inside the Buddha
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Inside the Buddha
Kamakura, 30 September 2007
This was an amazing moment for me. When I was 5 I used to be at my Granny in Austria. She had a big book on amazing sights of the world. They included this statue. I remembered it so clearly. And there it was - in front of me - I never knew where it was in the world in which country. It was a wet and rainy day, but I spent hours here.
You can enter the Buddha and see the most amazing structure from inside. It has survived a many earthquakes.
The head from below...
 The bronze ornaments from outside...
Father and child
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Chest
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Head
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Seat
Kamakura, 30 September 2007
In front of the Buddha's slippers....



It's my turn
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Daibutsu from back
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Trees and the Daibutsu
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Goodbye
Kamakura, 30 September 2007
There was a girl's school class that had to talk English to foreigners, ask them to fill out a form, take photos of them... It was fun the first 3 times, but I was one of the few there and met the whole class. When these two asked me for a photo, I asked for theirs, too :)
These little doors in the back have fascinated me for almost 30 years....

Great experience!
Train
Kamakura, 30 September 2007 		Dinner 3: Best Set Menu Ever
Ginza, 30 September 2007 		Water bath
Ginza, 30 September 2007 		Ginza at night...
Ginza, 30 September 2007
On this wet day, I liked the colors...
Probably the best set menu I ever had....
 in which I boiled my beef...
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