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I love Berlin for the clash of east and west, resulting in cultural and artistical diversity.

I love Tokyo for its contradictions. They make you wonder every day and always rethink your position.

And I love Paris for its tune. The tune that inspired artists and fueled revolutions.

Surprising my best friend on her birthday with a weekend trip, I could once again explore some parts of Paris.
Loving the warm colors shaped into golden tones by old buildings around Hotel de Ville and the open spaces of La Defense, I took much more pictures of the architecture around than doing street.
I might have done more but I recently got myself the Heliar 15mm and so I focused more on architecture to play around with it. My digital gear didnt have much to do this time. Its difficult to enjoy the moment and at the same time see everything with the eye of the photographer. It’s like having a discussion with someone while painting him. I think a rangefinder can be integrated into such moments more easily, still it would require everyday practice to switch seamless. Practice I haven’t had for quite some time.

So here I present some parts of Paris that seemed to fit the wide angles, still inheriting the feeling of just passing by instead of giving analytic architecture frames. Hôtel de Ville, heart of Paris and it’s history. Place Vendôme, where you can still feel the spirit of the aristocrats. Place La Défense and it’s Grande Arche, the new modern counterpart to the Arc de Triomphe at the other side.

Not that much, but I’m sure I will catch some more of the air sooner or later.
Cause I just love Paris.

A little late, but still before my next trip to Japan, here are some pictures from the Tokyo Game Show last year.
Not that much crowded as I’d expected it, still worth a visit. Of course German’s Gamescom is bigger and has more surprises for the common gamer, but at TGS you have the chance to see some games never making it to Europe. Weird ones, funny ones.

And between on-stage interviews, booth babes and people having their lunch on sheets on the floor there are the Cosplay people. Actually it seems they are the main attraction as many of them are underground stars, appearing at every game related event.
So I broke the rules of queuing up for picture taking and did them from an observing angle rather than doing a “shooting”.
Still I got a straight pose from “Cyborg Ninja” girl Omi Gibson

Enjoy!

Last Saturday it was time for another Santacon. More people, more fun, more punsch than last year.
Again here are more pictures and last year’s video. This year monochrom also tried to get more people to join the party.
And finally we had a surprise guest, a weird performance combo



> > see other pictures of SantaCon Vienna 2009

On this years travel to Japan I met Laura from California. After a very nice stroll around Ueno Koen, some shopping in Ginza and lots of good talking about the japanese culture she was looking forward to see Vienna on her next trip across Europe.
So last week, I showed her around.


>>see the other pictures of American Vienna

Did a spontaneous shooting of my project-team, using a nice EOS 5D MkII. Tried to make a little series to show a little bit of the weirdness in our office.
Finally my poor lens, the Sigma 15-30mm/f3.5 got a chance to show off the weird world of real 15mm – on full frame.

>> continue reading ‘Groupies’…

After a long break, I fixed my blog to work again. Seems I would need either a rootserver or a framework with a good logging concept.
Back to this post’s topic, I used my summer vacation for another timeout in Tokyo. This time without the thrill of the unknown, without organisation, just plain everyday life in one of the biggest cities in the world.

So my photographic vision of Tokyo this year is much more plain and trivial. It’s quite like my pictures of Vienna, telling more about how I live my life here than what makes Vienna so interesting. It really takes some thinking and effort to see the city you are living in and working at for years, with the same excitement you had when you walked around the first time. Stopping from being afraid of the Censor might help.

Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurogawa

to the Tokyo Timeout

Well, it seems I can’t get enough of this kind of event. Though I don’t like weddings very much at all, wedding pictures are perhaps one of the most appriciated kind of pictures, at least if you know the bride and the groom.
For me its an event where there are always paid professional photographers, but seldom the result is reflecting the emotions of that happening. Might be, you have to know the couple you take pictures of, but maybe it’s more because there are a series of expectations and doing something creative that is worth much more, than having a flashlight loaden picture series of the “first” kiss is just too risky.

So here is my second picture series of a wedding from the other side of the view.

more of those pictures

Last week I’ve been at the first wedding of my friends. More to come over the next years as we are all getting old.
But although I don’t like traditional countryside weddings at all, it was quite some fun and we danced the night away.

this picture was inspired by Chris Weeks – actually one of his wedding pictures, not David. You might ask why the bridal couple theme is not noticable on this picture, I just wanted to bring back their memories of that moment they came out of the church, happy, loud and colorful.

>> continue reading ‘Wedding’…