Monkeys

A few monkeys in the Tierpark-Berlin (Zoo east

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 Gibbons with baby

young Meerkatze / sea cat

Japanese macaques

Husar / patas

 

It´s a long tradition to give the not selled christmas trees to the animals for playing and eating.

Kulan

I was very surprised to get a ViP-Card 2012 for the zoos and the aquarium of Berlin. I do work in the Tierpark as a photographer, the ViP-Card is a kind of thanks to me and it gives me entry for free into all 3 institutions.

Yesterday I scanned a few old pictures from our old familiy photo album. I found photos of an old journey of my dat befor I was born and a photo of me aged 3 1/2 at the kindergarten.

River Elbe near by Dresden 1961

me made by a photographer in the Kindergarten

cool cat

A real photographer has never holidays. I helped my neighbor with he new camera. The moddel was he cat, wat only sat peacefull in an dish on the frige.

 

Nice days for all squirrels and all the others 

nice wishes

I wish you all have a nice christmas

Dick & Doof

Oh dear, today I missed an appointment in the Zoo to make some fotos .


As every year around christmas the Tv shows old films like Stan & Ollie. All you like, in german, english or silent. I´m very amused.

(c) kirchmedia

"M, a city is looking for a murder" Berlin 1930, I was very very surprices, that the murder in this famous film  lifed exactly here, where I life now. It´s right, untill 1958 here where little gardens.

Darkroom

No rain today, a wonder. I went to Biesdorf an ended the film in my new old camera.
Here are the results. I´m waiting for the sun, to fill the next film.

Beachside in Biedsorf

Bridge over river Spree

oldies

One of my favorit oldie cameras is my Agfa-Box from 1932. I inherited it from my grandma, he bought it only 200 m away from where I life now. It still works and makes nice oldstyle photos.

 

 

 

 

 

Greetings from Berlin

 

Rain, rain, rain

I was ordered to an action in front of a bank office. It rained very strong but orderred is ordered. It would have been very nice, if someone had given me, or the 5 others, a call, that nothing will be happend, because of the rain. We where angry and decides to have a hot coffe instead.
It´s still raining outside.

 

My squirrel does it right again, it sleeps through the bad weather and when it wakes ub, the sun is shining, maybe.

Bridges

Again and again our city-trains has problems, each time new ideas what can be broken. Today it was a very big one, a computer went down and the trafic stopped completly. I rode by bike and noticed the big problem later on. I have had 4 camaras with me and toke shots at many bridges. Under one of these bridges I found this one..

"Any problems? Call the A-Team"

I never saw the "A-Team" on TV. It where by a regional TV station, I coud´nt receive.


Another Bridge is this historical one in the city, one of the oldest we do have. I made this tour to test the different cameras but unfortunatly it started to rain, I could not end my work because the old cameras must´nt get a single drop of rain. There are still the films in it. This photo is made old by Photoshop

Gertrauden Bridge, dubble bridge build in 1894 and 1974, 38 m long the river spree crossing.

 

gone swimming

Today my school kids have had swimming, so I could ´nt teach them. But the weather was so wet, I think all of us went swimming.

Instead of teaching I met John to create a new miniphotoclub. We played around with 4 cameras and learned more about them. I dicovered, that my DSLR has a factory fault at the inside flash. I did´nt notice it so fast, because I usualy use the attachable big flash. Our only moddel was this small christimas three made of plastic.

flea market

Today was a nice sunday. After I got a small new order, I went to the flea market. I bought an old kamera, about 50 - 60 years old. It works with roll film. There ist still a film in my Agfa Box, I test the new old camera when that´s full.
The flea market at Ostbahnhof is very nice, unfortunatliy there it a construction zone beside, it looks a bit chaotic at the moment.
One of the sellers offert a bookend made of wooden squirrels, my money was empty  *cry*

 

Paramide

Sometimes I got to do in the Berlin Parliament Building, so today.
In the entrance hall is, a big paramide. Paramides, nut braker and light bows are the traditional decoration for the dark time of the year in Erzgebirge (south east germany) It has nothing to do with church, usually you should´nt find church symbols in the wooden decoration, it does´nt belong to it. You see small figures made of wood, it tells about the everyday life around the iron mines.
The waming candles makes turn around, this one is elektric operated.

 

 

Christmas Market

I went with my school kids to one of the 200 Christmas markets in Berlin (some are only one day)
My students should take christmas photos for greetingcards. I hav´nt seen the results jet, but it can´t be very much. I saw them eating candy floss and roastet almonds.
I took some pictures:

Herrenhuter Stars, made of paper, very poplular lights

 

The famous TV Tower. The corw is real

agreement with squirrels

The squirrel came to me and as I´m a photographer and he a collector we have an agreement:
I get photos of him and he gets nuts from me.
It works, take a look

grey Sunday

Rain, grey and cold, that´s the Sunday today. The best time for doing work on Photoshop. It took 2 houres, because I worked very exactly, to put this monkey into the szene. I needed to remove a part of the sculpture an build up the buildings behind.

 My squirrel did the olny right thing today, it ate some nuts went to bet.

no lucky day

No lucky day today. The mayor opend a middelaged christmas market in Karlshorst and it starts to rain. I could save my technic but i got wet allover.
When I came home, my laundry on the balkony where wet again too.
Later on I throw unfortunatly a big glass of selfmade marmelade on the floor. Cherry-mint and all ingrediente out of my garden, very sad.

small theatre at the christmas market

french artists and thier view at jesus

Fitness

My last exhebition had ended just a few days ago, so I had to get my photos and frames from the galerie. I got a lot of nice comments into my guestbook and many more told me he impressions. The pictures showed old factories with respect but also the hardness of the deday after 20 years vacency.

Carring 26 frames into the 4. floor can be very athletic.

at school

Once a week I teach a group of children how to get a good photograph.
Of course they like especially the work at the computer, they plays some games.
Nontheless we made some shots at the school yard and edited it.

I just got a really nice work, the reconstruction of old photos from the 1960-70. Usualy it´s a work for grey winterdays but now the sun is shining. It does´nt matter.
Ok, the older the better the work is, but it´s nice to. The oldest photos I recontructed where original negatives on glass more than 100 years old. It ca´nt be allways like this.