The Significant Other and I are spending the first days of the year in our “Southern Home” in Genoa. Yesterday afternoon we walked from our place into the historic center to see the exhibition of Genoa born photographer Lisetta Carmi in the Palazzo Ducale (will do a separate post about the exhibition). Her black & white street photography work is really inspiring, and as I was with the Fuji in the Centro Storico, I dialed in the ACROS film simulation for some monochrome shooting of my own. For the resulting images (all jpgs out of the camera) continue after the jump….
This house is on fire – as a lighthouse should be. Only that the backlighted illumination of Genoa’s historic lighthouse, La Lanterna, is natural, with the sun setting directly behind the almost 500 year old structure guiding to the entrance of the port of “La Superba”, as Genoa is also known since medieval times. The photo is a throwback to last November, when, during the first days of the month, the sun is setting directly behind the Lanterna, with 77 meters height the tallest lighthouse in the Mediterranean and still the second tallest in Europe.
The Significant Other and I left Austria on New Year’s Day to spend the last days of our Christmas break at our “Southern Home” in Genoa on the Ligurian Coast in Italy, enjoying the perfect weather, as beautiful as on that November day when I captured the lighthouse on fire with my iPhone 14 Pro while strolling along the Porto Antico.
With the skiing slopes much too crowded, The Significant Other and I are doing a bit of winter hiking through Austria’s Lungau region between Mauterndorf and Mariapfarr. Along came the Fuji X-T2 with the Fujinon XF18-135mm F3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR travel zoom. The color photographs in this post are all jpgs out of the camera with the Fuji Velvia film simulation, the monochrome jpgs were shot with the Acros B&W analogue simulation. To see more Lungau landscapes with the Fuji, click below…
“Silent Night Holy Night”. I’m fully aware that we are already a few days after the silent and holy night where Christ was born. And no, I’m not the die-hard Christmas fan who drags out the festive season as long as possible. Still, there was a good reason to write a blog post about the world’s arguably most famous Christmas carol. Because today, The Significant Other and I visited the place where it all started with the song that for all of us is the epitome of Christmas: “Silent Night, Holy Night”. To find out more, continue after the jump….
Nuremberg’s historical Christmas Market has been closed for the year on Christmas Eve. But there is still time to share some street photographs I took at the “Schaschlik-Bude”, were the staff was working hard and all smoked up to prepare little meat skewers that were one of the culinary attractions of the market.
Fore some more images of the steamy food stall continue after the jump…
To everyone out there, but particularly to all the many magic people I’ve had the blessings to meet virtually and face-to-face during my eight years of blogging on the “Streets of Nuremberg”, I wish a peace- and joyful Christmas and much love and laughters together with your family and friends.
Street Photography is not necessarily about capturing human beings on the stage of life. It is also about seeing those little things that happen out in the streets, the little stories that make us smile about life happening in front of our lens. When I saw this 90 degrees bent bollard behind that car parked in Quimper, France, I had to laugh, I thought this was hilarious. I have captured that snapshot dubbed Collision Course with my iPhone.
So take your camera (or smartphone), hit your local streets and look for this little funny scenes that also tell the stories of the streets.
If you are looking for more tips and inspirations around street photography, take a look around my free Learning Center.
As avid street photographer, I’m always looking for those stories of the street happening in front of my lens. Like during this nightly encounter in the streets of Vannes in Brittany, France. Look at the image and let it tell you a story of everyday live. Maybe a bit of an unusual story, happening at 11pm in the evening.
Taken with thy Olympus OM-D E-M1X and the mZuiko 12-100mm F/4 Pro Zoom.
If you feel like picking up your camera to go out and capture the stories of the streets yourself, check out the tips and inspirations around street photography in my free Learning Center.
There was clear joy for those two girls, when they saw their grand dad coming around the corner. A candid street snapshot taken at the iconic Mont Saint Michele in Brittany, France. Hello again, maybe that’s what the delighted man said when he had the girls jumping at him. Hello again is for me to say after our vacation trip to Brittany. Stay tuned for some posts about this magnificent region in Northwestern France.
Yesterday, after a long workday, The Significant Other and I headed down to Genoa’s Porto Antico for an “Apericena”, Cocktails combined with Italian Tapas. I was pleasantly surprised, when the Regent of the Household suggested to visit the Summer Luna Park set up in the Harbor on the way back to our place. “So you can take some photographs while I look what the fair has to offer”. No questions asked from my side 🙂 . While having the X-T2 with me, I shot also various images with my iPhone, leveraging the feature to turn images taken with the “Live” function of the camera app turned on into long exposure photographs (you can to that in the photo app). Check out more image of the series “Luna Park with an iPhone” after the jump….
Thought I throw in a monochrome street photo from last weekend’s walk through Genoa’s Centro Storico. The guy thought I was a funny break in whatever conversation he was having, maybe he was phoning home? A snapshot talken with my iPhone, converted to monochrome in Lightroom Classic.
Talking about LRC, I’m having troubles with my catalogue (have I mentioned there are almost 200.000 images stored there?). After upgrading to version 13.4. I was asked also to upgrade the catalogue. Initially it worked fine, then somehow it became corrupt. It opens and closes fine, it shows the images in the library, but does not take any commands. I’ve been browsing through forums and help advice, tried everything suggested, so far without any success. The last backup works fine, so the catalogue must have taken a hit. Too bad my last backup was done beginning of June, my bad. Make sure you all do your weekly backups, that’s my learning from this. I’m not ready to give up yet on two months worth of editing…
One blog post per month does not meet my own expectations for myself. But this is how it has been lately. Not much more going on in my photography. Also not doing my own expectations and aspirations justice. But this is how it has been lately. But this is how life is sometimes. There are too many things going on in parallel, in the job that pays the bills as well as in personal life. So something that, for many years, has been in the spotlight of my activities, has been relegated to a place in the far corner of daily life. Sometimes I feel bad about it, sometimes I don’t, because the other things are just as fun. But when out in the streets, these days hardly with a camera around the neck, but always with the iPhone in hand, I’m always looking around. Consciously or subconscious scanning my surroundings for the stories of the street, or the faces of the street. It’s wired into me, and it’s always fun. And when I get this one shot taht makes me smile at the end of the day I’m totally happy.
So my promise to myself is to do better. In my photography. And in my writing about it.
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