Stuttgart Beer Festival / Wordless Wednesday

At the Cannstatter Wasen in October for the world's second largest beer festival in Stuttgart a few years ago. Posted for Wordless Wednesday.

Laundry Day | Taken on Tuesday

Hung up this morning. Today's autumn sunshine promises to dry it fast.

Wordless Wednesday | Public Art

Double exposure photograph of street art found on the wall of a market in Rome. Redmi 14 with Vignette for Android.

Posted for Wordless Wednesday. 

Ghost Rider / Taken on Tuesday

If you take a good look inside the car, you can see that a ghost is riding along.

Photo taken today, on Tuesday, and the beginning of what will hopefully become a series of Tuesday photos.

Wordless Wednesday - By the Side of the Street

Long shot - Olympus E-620 with Zuiko Digital 70-300 mm. Posted for Wordless Wednesday.

Wordless Wednesday - Street Realities

 Posted for Wordless Wednesday (Olympus 35SP on Kodak ProImage film)

Turquoise Night

Posted for Wordless Wednesday. Digital photograph created with Vignette for Android on a Sony Xperia MiniPro. Also available for collectors on Objkt.

Cefalù, Sicily

A view of Cefalù, Sicily, from a nearby beach. Strange colors due to the creative film used. Available as a collectible.

Leica R5 with 50 mm Leitz Summilux on Lomochrome Turquoise film.

Means of Transport

Slightly glitched (taken with an app called GlitchCam).

Posted for Wordless Wednesday.

Riga, Latvia

Posted for Wordless Wednesday

Leica R4 with 50 mm Summilux lens on Harman Switch Azure film, a creative film with color shifts.

Bog trail in Estonia

 

Posted for Wordless Wednesday

A street in Hamburg

Posted for Wordless Wednesday

Hamburg Skyline

 Posted for Wordless Wednesday.

Entrance, thoroughly glitched

A photograph with glitch artefacts of a house entrance with green plants to the left of it. Created on a Xiaomi Redmi 14 5G with GlitchCam.

Available on rarible as an NFT.

Fence & Old & New

 

Rome - southern suburb of Fonte Laurentina

Captured with Vignette for Android on a Xiaomi Redmi 10 telephone.

Lonely, strong, nearly symmetrical

 

Thinking back to the days when kids
were running around here,
when cows were mooing, roosters
crowing, dogs barking and cats
meowing – life.

Unlike now when there’s only
mechanical clatter of machines – 
sometimes.

– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2024)

Note
This was written to accompany the photo, which shows a tree next to the remains of what used to be a farm (Lazio, Italy, southeast of Rome).

No respect, no tears good-bye

 

Discarded technology

Title chosen in variation of lyrics by Tom Rush ("no regrets / no tears good-bye").

Once a means of communication, now a piece of high-tech trash carelessly thrown away. Photographed in Rome, but this could be just about anywhere on the planet.

Tiger Shroff in Bade Miyan Chote Miyan

Indian actor Tiger Shroff in a film still from the action movie Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (2024).

Taken from the screen with an ancient Sony Ericsson cell phone from around 2004 and subjected to some retro editing.

Haven't finished watching, so no words on the film for now.

Photography haiku

 

Found out this morning
I have neither spider web 
photos nor smoke pix

– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2024)

Notes
I’ve been known to participate in some photography challenges where you’re invited to post a photo to match a given topic. This made me realize that I have nothing suitable for at least two topics. The above smoky picture is actually a fake – the interior of this room looks smoky but in reality the smoke was the result of a dirty window through which I shot the photo. As to spider web photos, I have nothing to show. Must try to look for webs!

What do I remember

What do I remember
of this light-weight day
above the hillside,
above dark shadows,
looking at blazing white
clouds in the distance?

– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2023)

Note
Let’s leave it at that, shall we? More of a question about memory and what one remembers about one particular moment. Thank God for photographs – they greatly help with the task of reconstructing things gone by.

The photo taken from a chair lift above Campo Imperatore in Abruzzo, Italy, is by my real me, Johannes Beilharz. Leica R4, 50 mm Summilux, Adox CMS II 20 film.