Street | Urban | Travel | Photography by Marcus Puschmann
There is nothing to worry about – the young talents are already roaming the streets. I captured this image of a next gen photographer the other day on the streets of Genoa.
The photograph was taken with my Nikon Zf and the Nikkor Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR. Specs are 1/400 sec @ f/6.3 , ISO 450 and 200mm focal length. Jpg out of camera.
Have a great Monday
Marcus
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We are wrapping up 2025 with a little family vacation in the Austrian mountains. Actually it is the first time in what seems ages that the four of us spending off-time together. Actually we are 4+1, as Big Girl’s boyfriend has joined us for the trip. Using the downtime to go through the year’s images, I found this photograph of a teenage boy I took in one of Tashkent’s markets. He’s framed by a butchery stall that looks almost sculptural—piled high with pale pink bones, cut clean and stacked with casual precision. And there he is, calm and completely at home, perched behind the counter like the quiet conductor of controlled chaos.
What caught me first wasn’t the scale of the meat or the gleam of the blade resting nearby, but his expression. Lips pursed, a whistle clearly forming—maybe already sounding—he looks as if he’s passing the time with a tune only he can hear. It’s a wonderfully human detail in an otherwise raw, visceral scene. While customers come and go, while orders are shouted and cleavers rise and fall, he whistles.
There’s something timeless about it. Markets like this have existed for centuries, and so have moments like this one: a young helper learning the trade, standing knee-deep in the everyday reality of work, still finding space for playfulness. The whistle softens the sharpness of the setting. It turns a butcher’s stall into a stage, and the boy into its most memorable character.
Street photography is often about contrasts, and here they sing—quite literally.
Taken with my Nikon Zf with the Nikkor 40mm f/2. Image specs 1/60 sec @ f/7.1 and ISO 1250.
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Marcus
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To everyone out there, but particularly to all the many magic people I’ve had the blessings to meet through my blogging on the “Streets of Nuremberg”, I wish a peaceful and merry Christmas and much love and laughters together with your family and friends.
Merry Christmas from the Streets of Nuremberg
Marcus
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Big Boy and I headed to Madrid to watch the Miami Dolphins play the Washington Commanders in the 2025 Madrid Game as part of the NFL’s international series. To give you some impressions of this fantastic event (with the right team winning 16:13 in OT), here a few images from and around the game. Fins Up!
Continue reading “Fins Up!”
This young couple obviously didn’t mind stepping out into the rain after leaving the Madrid Metro at Gran Via Station in the city center. It was really rainy, the long weekend that Big Boy and I did spend in Spain’s capital on the occasion of attending the Madrid Game of the NFL’s international series at Bernabéu Stadium. While carrying my Fuji X-T2 in my backpack most of the time, I ended up shooting the whole weekend with my iPhone 16 Pro Max only. Which is perfectly capable of handling my street photography. In this scene, I took three shots of the couple as they left the Metro. The third image was the keeper, with the girl smiling in the rain.
Postprocessing in Lightroom Classic.
Have a great Sunday
Marcus
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A scene from a wet and chilly night on the streets of Madrid. A young couple seated in front of the Catedral de Santa María la Real de la Almudena, across from the Royal Palace. Leaning into each other, enjoying a moment of shared silence while the city moved around them. I don’t know what they were looking at on that phone. Maybe a photo of a friend. Maybe a message, or a train schedule, or nothing important at all. But in that frozen instant, the world outside stopped mattering.
This is the kind of thing I’m always on the hunt for with my Street Photography. Not grandeur, not drama, but the gentle realities we walk by every day. Snapped with my iPhone 16 Pro Max. Postprocessing in Lightroom Classic.
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Marcus
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The Significant Other and I took the metro train into town today, heading to the Humbold Forum in the center of Berlin. The first photo I took on this week’s trip to our Nation’s capital. I just love the striped hoodie and its reflection in the train’s window. I shot this image from the hip using zone focusing on my Nikon Zf. Easy to do as I had a manual M42 mount lens attached via an adapter, the roughly 60 year old Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.8/35. Image specs 1/400 sec @ f/4 with ISO 1400. Setting an f/4 aperture, the aperture/range markings on top of the Flektogon told me that the guy staring into his cell phone had to be in focus. Post-processing in Lightroom Classic.
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Marcus
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Today, October 3rd, is the German Unity Day, or “Tag der deutschen Einheit”, as it is called in our language. It commemorates our countries reunification in 1990, when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ceased to exist and joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), so that for the first time since 1945 there existed a single German state. German Unity Day on 3 October has been our national holiday since 1990, when the reunification was formally completed.
In this post I share some (vintage) images from the Reichstag dome on top of our national parliament building in our capital Berlin. Continue after the jump for its history and some more image, taken back in 2007 and 2008 with a Nikon D80 – remember the old days 😉 ?
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My heart beats Street Photography. I’m always looking to capture life as it happens. Like this little girl looking at votive candles in Cathédrale Notre-Dame des Doms d’Avignon. Amazed by the magic light, maybe asking herself what wishes have been associated with those candles. A monochrome shot taken during our visit of Avignon (Provence, France) with my iPhone using the dark black&white mode.
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Have a great Tuesday
Marcus
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What is the best way for the street photographer when the summer in the city gets too intense? Right, then it is the time for some high contrast monochrome photography. The monumental circular bronze fountain in Genoa’s Piazza de Ferrari, built in 1936 by the architect Cesare Crosa di Vergagni and donated by the Piaggio family, provides the perfect background. To see more images taken on this beautiful Piazza in the heart of Genoa, continue after the jump…
Continue reading “Summer in the City”
Caught this gem while walking past a diner window. There he was, mid-bite, mid-thought. A bearded man in a hoodie, sitting solo with a bowl of what looked like healthy regret (possibly lentils?), frozen in the decisive moment. Flashing me the universal gesture for “I Dunno, Man” or more likely “I have no idea what’s going on.”
His eyes locked with mine through the glass, and he gave me the shrug, palms up, eyebrows raised, expression halfway between confusion and enlightenment. It’s the face of a man who just found out the Wi-Fi password is “password123.” As if the universe just asked him to explain crypto.
Behind him, the city lights blur into a soft bokeh, the kind only a prime lens and a dirty window can truly deliver. The reflections in the window only add to the chaotic magic, making him look like he’s pondering life in two dimensions.
Judging by his face, he was okay me taking his photograph. This, friends, is the candid gold we street photographers live for. Pure, unscripted “what even is this?” energy.
Street photography at its finest: awkward, honest, and strangely profound. 10/10 candid confusion. Would photograph this again. And again.
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Have a great Sunday
Marcus
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Happy Birthday, Streets of Nuremberg! No, not to this blog that carries the name, which is also in its 10th year. Happy Birthday to the real Streets of Nuremberg. Yesterday, our city celebrated the 975th anniversary of the first documented mention of Nuremberg. On July 16, 1050, during the reign of Emperor Henry III., the city was referenced in the so-called Sigena document, which was issued at a Hoftag (imperial assembly) held in Nuremberg. In this document, Emperor Henry III confirmed the release of a woman named Sigena from servitude. This day is considered our city’s founding day.
At that time, Nuremberg was noted as the site of an Imperial Castle situated within a large imperial estate. This strategic location between East Francia and the Margraviate of the Nordgau (in what is now Bavaria) marked the beginning of the city’s historical significance.
This image is the oldest printed view of Nuremberg that was published in the Schedelsche Weltchronik back in 1493.
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Marcus
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