december: talking about christmas time.

i have to admit, it kind of feels strange to write this entry in the middle of spring. but i want to keep a chronological order on this blog ( my hope is, that i will eventually catch up to the present, and maybe by then get some ideas what else i can offer on this blog of mine - i know, it's a little pretentious, i guess, as i'm hoping for something silly ).

december is oftentimes the month of the year when i'm not shooting much. i don't know, but it's not necessarily my favourite time of the year, i guess it has something to do with my job, as it's getting really hectic around that time and people freak out and i freak out and another year's ending, and i always realize i still haven't found what i want to do with my life.

while i don't actually hate christmas season itself, i still have a hard time, always. maybe it's the dark winter season, maybe it's something else, but it seems to affect my moods so much, that i rarely feel like photographing a lot.

so this is the whole of december, beginning with pictures from the christmas market in frankfurt.

i met up with a frankfurt friend of mine, and we decided to ride the nostalgic merry-go-round on the römerberg.

the twinkling christmas tree in front of the römer city hall.

another merry-go-round near saint paul's church.

i found this really perfect dragon oil lamp! i wish i'd bought it, it's such a great object!

another time in frankfurt i met up with my friend again to go to the symphonic rilke project: dir zur feier. it was an event to commemorate rainer maria rilke's 140th birthday and it took place in the frankfurt opera, a beautiful building inside and out.

it was seriously a mind-bending experience with acts like ben becker, robert stadtlober, nina hoger, hannelore elsner, max mutzke, peter maffay performing the beautiful poetry of rainer maria rilke in the setting of space and outer space and within a wonderful musical frame. it made me dive into the poetry of rilke soon after. at the moment he's my most favourite poet.

in front of the opera.

inside the opera. we were pretty early, hence the few people sitting around.

some random photos out of my window when the sky looked absolutely crazy one morning.

for christmas i visited my parents.

in the basement of my parent's house.

on boxing day we visited the animal and recreation park possen near sondershausen.

we met the most beautiful pink mini pigs!

and looked into the amber-coloured eyes of emus.

the possen tower was built in tudor style and is said to be one of the oldest observation towers in europe.

lovely deer.

look at this aristocratic side profile!

i love this silly photo ;)

a striped plushy something?

yes, baby boars! i loved watching them playing with each other. they are the cutest!

i don't know what game this was, either pushcart or something a tiny bit g-rated?

it seemed fun, nonetheless xD

pigs and goats in one compound.

we marvelled at these amazing ankole longhorns.

their eyes were so soft-spoken. while their horns could certainly spike you up!

and my personal favourite of the whole park were the cheetahs! still, i wish i could see them in their natural habitat, even the biggest compound is still too small for these gracious animals.

on the last day of my visit we headed to weimar. the christmas market was still on display.

inside the weimar atrium, a shopping mall.

christmas arch stall.

huge christmas pyramid.

christmas season is tea season.

and now off to january 2016!

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

may '20: seeking modernism.

super pink rhododendron buds emerging! i start off this post with some flower images to appreciate and praise the time of spring, especially the month of may, which is the most abundant spring month to me personally. all the blossoms, all the fresh greens amass during may, and my heart and mind are hardly ever able to not frolick & gush about it all! for this post i am returning to one walk i did with the sole purpose to find a special mid-century villa in königstein ( which would ultimately prove to be a failure - i did find it, but i couldn't approach it properly to have a good look at it and only ever saw a tiny bit of the garden/forest side ). the whole walk was not a letdown, though, as i did find some other mid-century & brutalism gems and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the old spa town in the taunus mountains. rhododendron shrubs yield all kinds of different blossoms in myriad colours, they are easy to breed, therefore a wide variety can be found all over the wor...

november: thuringian forest.

the day we visited the thuringian forest near luisenthal we would also receive the death notice of my cousin. while the day in luisenthal was pretty magic - i even found a goat skull to take home for my not so fast growing skull collection - the time we got home and received the phone call of my grandmother, everything went dull. we always had hoped for him to recover - over the course of his sickness there were multiple times we'd thought he was on his way up, but that also counted for the times it was clear that the cancer was severe and probably not defeatable. in the end he fought four years, but he couldn't conquer. his constant optimism & general good will wasn't enough as his body decided to give up on him. i'm still thinking a lot about him, he was such a good natured guy, always seeing the good in everything and everyone. it's so strange to know that he's never going to be on any future family party gathering again. we discussed so many things whe...

ghost of nature.

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