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A photograph of our beagle Kira lying in the sun, enjoying this sunny afternoon. Very fittingly, the name Kira originates from Persian culture and means “sun” or “light”. Zoom

A photograph of our beagle Kira lying in the sun, enjoying this sunny afternoon. Very fittingly, the name Kira originates from Persian culture and means “sun” or “light”.

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A small ferry boat in the Gulf of Elounda on Crete. This photo was actually taken only a few meters away from my second photo on the island of Spinalonga. In the background, you can see the small fishing town of Elounda, where we spent our vacation in 2009. The intense teal color effect of the crystal-clear water was the most remarkable aspect of this view. Zoom

A small ferry boat in the Gulf of Elounda on Crete. This photo was actually taken only a few meters away from my second photo on the island of Spinalonga.

In the background, you can see the small fishing town of Elounda, where we spent our vacation in 2009. The intense teal color effect of the crystal-clear water was the most remarkable aspect of this view.

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A pseudo-ancient shot of the “Deutsches Eck” (German Corner) in Koblenz. The photo was taken last September from the cable car connecting the city of Koblenz with the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. The cable car connection was solely installed for the 2011 Bundesgartenschau which will take place in Koblenz this year.  As this picture was supposed to look like an ancient postcard, let’s assume, the picture was taken before World War II, when the statue of William I was in the same position as it is today. The statue was heavily damaged by American artillery in 1945, was then removed and left the German Corner empty as a reminder and memorial. It had been re-installed in 1993 after Germany had been reunited. Zoom

A pseudo-ancient shot of the “Deutsches Eck” (German Corner) in Koblenz. The photo was taken last September from the cable car connecting the city of Koblenz with the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. The cable car connection was solely installed for the 2011 Bundesgartenschau which will take place in Koblenz this year. 

As this picture was supposed to look like an ancient postcard, let’s assume, the picture was taken before World War II, when the statue of William I was in the same position as it is today. The statue was heavily damaged by American artillery in 1945, was then removed and left the German Corner empty as a reminder and memorial. It had been re-installed in 1993 after Germany had been reunited.

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A picture of Swiss Formula 3 race driver Christopher Zanella taken at the renovated Nürburgring race track in 2009. The Formula 3 racing series was a side event of the DTM race which I visited with a couple of friends as our annual camping event in compliance with Article 96 of the Bro Code. Zoom

A picture of Swiss Formula 3 race driver Christopher Zanella taken at the renovated Nürburgring race track in 2009. The Formula 3 racing series was a side event of the DTM race which I visited with a couple of friends as our annual camping event in compliance with Article 96 of the Bro Code.

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Here is a photo of my workplace, the Post Tower in Bonn, headquarters of Deutsche Post DHL.  Amongst about 2,000 colleagues, I am working in this 8 year old building on the south side of the 36th floor. Being the tallest office building in Germany outside of Frankfurt am Main the Post Tower was designed by architect Helmut Jahn. It materialized the vision of a headoffice that is “transparent, open and equipped for communication and networking” using 35,000 square meters of glass for the facades and almost all office “walls” within the building. This photo was shot using a polarizing filter, thus creating the very intense blue sky and green leaves. Zoom

Here is a photo of my workplace, the Post Tower in Bonn, headquarters of Deutsche Post DHL. 

Amongst about 2,000 colleagues, I am working in this 8 year old building on the south side of the 36th floor. Being the tallest office building in Germany outside of Frankfurt am Main the Post Tower was designed by architect Helmut Jahn. It materialized the vision of a headoffice that is “transparent, open and equipped for communication and networking” using 35,000 square meters of glass for the facades and almost all office “walls” within the building.

This photo was shot using a polarizing filter, thus creating the very intense blue sky and green leaves.

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This Photo was taken on the island Spinalonga in the gulf of Elounda on Creete, Greece. The photograph shows abandoned houses within a fortress which was built during Venetian occupation. The houses belonged to one of the last European leper colonies, where leprous people used to live until 1957. Today, the island with its Venetian fortress and the houses and hospitals merged into the fort’s interior is a popular but also lugubrious tourist attraction.  Zoom

This Photo was taken on the island Spinalonga in the gulf of Elounda on Creete, Greece. The photograph shows abandoned houses within a fortress which was built during Venetian occupation. The houses belonged to one of the last European leper colonies, where leprous people used to live until 1957. Today, the island with its Venetian fortress and the houses and hospitals merged into the fort’s interior is a popular but also lugubrious tourist attraction. 

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The Raiffeisenbrücke in Neuwied, shot from the south-east during the Rhine flooding in January 2011. What only few people know is that the bridge has actually been built a few meters upstream and then moved to the current location, which was a very modern technique back in 1978. Zoom

The Raiffeisenbrücke in Neuwied, shot from the south-east during the Rhine flooding in January 2011. What only few people know is that the bridge has actually been built a few meters upstream and then moved to the current location, which was a very modern technique back in 1978.

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What is this? What is he doing here? And why the hell in English?

Maybe you’ve been asking yourself exactly these three questions when you came across the link on Facebook or Twitter and opened this site.

So, let me try to answer these three questions and - at the same time - give you a short introduction to this project.

What is this?
Well, probably you have already guessed it from the description in the right column: This will be a project, I have planned to do for already quite some time: A photo-blog. Since I bought my Canon EOS 450D almost two years ago, the one or the other occasional photo turned out to be not that bad. I already shared some of these photos via Twitter, Facebook, my MobileMe gallery. But there has never been a bigger context to it. So I took the inauguration of my freshly installed Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 as a reason to start this project.

The next question actually is two questions in one:

What am I DOING here?
From now on, I will publish some photos - maybe accompanied by the story surrounding that photo - in this place. I don’t plan to do this on a regular basis, but those of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook will come across my postings.

One other thing that is important to me: All the work here will be published under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. This does not mean that I don’t give a s*** about copyrights: It’s actually the other way round and I understand the Creative Commons Licenses as a good basis to start working. It respects copyrights but still grants the permissions to use any work in an appropriate way.

What am I doing HERE?
The journey to find a suitable platform to publish some photos was actually quite short. Three candidates appeared on my radar: Wordpress (maybe with some fancy photoblog plugins), Pixelpost and tumblr. As you can see, tumblr won the race. For mainly three reasons:

  1. It integrates very nicely with Facebook and Twitter,
  2. I don’t have to care about hosting, maintaining and updating the software,
  3. It also has a very nice mobile version for devices like the iPad.

And why the hell in English?
Most people in modern times can read the English language and since this a Photoblog, most interesting details will be independent from the language the texts are written in. This will probably be the longest text, posted to this blog anyway.

So long,
Patric