Second serving 5

Kite in the wind.

Second serving 4

 

I love the frangipani flowers!

Second serving 3

 

Morning over Detesoko. Sorry, I am not very religious in the sence of church, bur the light in this place was divine.

Second serving 2

 

An this is the morning sunrise at six o´clock at Kilimutu vulcano. To me it seems as a symbol of hope and paradise.

Second serving 1

 

May I give you a second serving, a little more of my holiday photos? Here it comes: the water in the pool.

Mainstaition

This is Cologne mainstaition. Cologne is only 40 kilometers away from my town. This also is a photo from the mobile camera, overworked with photoshop. Tried to catch the atmosphere...

Glowing benches

Our central park is the "hofgarten" , what means court garden, in the early time that was the hunting place for the duke. Now it is in the middle of the town. After two muderers in the park, luminescent benches were installed. Their light guarantees more securety and at the same time a highlight of artwork. I enjoyed to transfer the photo into a picture...

Bridges

The bridges over the rhine are a never ending motive. At least in our town we have five. In the old times, the western side was civilised by the romans, the eastern side was reservated to the fierce german tribes (-: That´s were i live...

The Rhine

So many photos I showed you from abroad. Now I´ll show you a little bit my surrounding. Nothing in germany is more mysterious than the river rhine. Today it´s a main traffic connection but nevertheless it´s still a artery of sentiments for the germans. We have no special midsummer ritual here, but we like to sit outside at the sands of the rhine, make a little campfire and drink a good glas of wine in the evening sun. I am very lucky to live and work only 500 meters from the riverside...

Before the thunderstorm

 

Later, a thunderstorm was coming with wonderfull clouds and lights. In that moment I was desperate, not to have my good camera. But now I think, maybe the simple mobile camera may be even better to make a painting!?

Meadows

 

Some horses under the treas on a big meadow reminded me of the of tales of the holy horse medows of the nordic religions. The horses were the symbols of Wotan, the highest God. My mobile camera did not manage to catch the view of the horses, they were too far away. But I was astonished how much photoshop could do with such a simple mobilphoto. The special feeling of the moment is caught excactly.

Dramatic

 

If the sun is going away, the peacefull landscape changes into a dramatic scenery.

Peacefull afternoon

 

In Schleswig-Holstein, time seems to stand still, everythings seems peacefull. Who knows of what this picture reminds me? Someone will know...

Flowers everywhere

 

The fields are full of flowers, to walk there, that is my midsummer festival.

Summer

 

Oh yes, it was summer! I had some time to walk around at the old places of my childhood. The region is called Schleswig-Hollstein, near Danmark. In summer -if not raining- it can be a paradise.
.

The Garden

 

Not only roses you find there, also the lillies are waiting for the bees.

Roses at my fathers house II

 

Unluckily, I did not have my Lumix Camera with me. So I had to take all photos with my mobile-camera, that means with low pixel quality. But with some working on the picture programms, I can still show you the feeling of that moment at my fathers house, where I grew up.

Roses in my fathers house I

 

You know my father... you know in May we were together in Italy, the fotos were in the Blog. Now he did, what all old people do sooner or later: he fall and broke the trochanter, the big bone of the leg. But luckily he got a prothesis. After the operation I got him out of the hospital, just on the day of his 91th birthday! At his house (yes, he lives on his own, he wants it!, in his garden, many roses were flowering. A wonderfull smell of roses, all around the house!

Dad going out for fishing

 

Ok. The sea is not only peace, it is also a thread.

Fishing at sunset

 

Even if we are are not fisherman you may feel the magic of living by the sea.

Sunset with the beach boys

 

The peace of the evening. I invite you to enlarge the picture.

Tonight I was buisy working on the photos. Converted them from photos to paintings in many steps. I do not like all, but I will show some results, even if the same pictures were in the blog already in another stage of development. I hope, you are not boarded by seeing the process.

Next step

 

The next step would be to bring this ideas on a canvas... but than there is this tremendous lack of time and experience...

Burning sea

 

here you see the game, that water and islands can play. Would like to spray this picture at once...

abstract sea

 

Some picture of the second flush get more abstract, other a little less.

The godness of the south

 

With the second harvest I whant to use the picture to express somethimh. This here is delicated to the godness of the south. Do you see the mercyless sun burning?

Second harvest

 

With the second harvest, I try to emphasise the abstract aspects of the photo.

Second transition

 

After saving the "tourist photos" I go through the pictures for a second time with the eyes of a painter.

The V-Effekt/ alienation

...and colours. Bertold Brecht wrote a lot about the V-Effekt in theater. By realising the unreal situation of a theater, by showing that he does not pretend to show reality, he wanted to make us think. I believe, that there is also a V-Effekt in photography:
the alienation effect can help us to realise the magic of a picture.