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Discovering Lisboa

I have been living in Lisbon since November, there are a couple more months to come. But inevitably, I will have to take my flight back as my stay here is limited. What will I miss? A beautiful city, that’s for sure. And the Portuguese winter. Of course, there are rainy days, but when the sun is out, the city shines, and the people smile (the last one is a cliche ;)). So, what I like to do is seize the day (off), focus on certain parts of the city, and take my time. The beautiful thing about staying in a city for a longer period of time is precisely the luxury of being able to do this kind of “salami tourism.” It allows me to discover hidden streets and uncover interesting artifacts of urbanity (like street art) of the well-traveled routes. Tough a post titled “Discovering Lisboa” has to start with a known and beloved view, I guess, so here we go:

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Lisbon in Color

The last series of photographs I published on the website were dark-toned or held entirely in black and white. Though I very much like the use of monochrome in photography, especially in street photography (check out the fantastic work of Viviane Maier; I also recommend the beautiful documentary about her life I saw recently), many photographers actually seem to forget their lenses are capable of capturing some beautiful light and colors. So, my little goal for this one was to highlight the fantastic range of shades you encounter walking on a sunny day through the old town of Lisbon.

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Streetphotography in Monochrome

In the last couple of weeks, I worked on completely redesigning the website. The aim was to make it more functional and accessible – and give it a pretty new look. So, it took a lot of time, and I didn’t have much of it. Anyway, finally, it is ready for 2015, and I can get back to business – posting photography, it was, if I remember correctly.

Before I get to that, here is a quick orientation walk through the new site:
On the front page, you see a header showpiece on top (be patient if it doesn’t pop out immediately; it will load eventually). Below, the last seven posts are displayed in chronological order.  If you click “show more” at the bottom of the page, you can access the older ones. Another possibility for browsing through the posts is to use the calendar or the archives in the sidebar. I think the functionality is quite self-explanatory, so I won’t elaborate. There is also a neat search function on the sidebar and a tag cloud if you want it to be more topic-oriented. So, the site works mainly through the front page now, with the sidebar as a toolkit for navigation. However, the top menu is not gone entirely. The About or Contact section remained basically unchanged, so if you want to give me some feedback – that’s the way to go, and I would certainly appreciate it (or you can comment on the individual posts, of course) 🙂 The other menu points are brand new. So, the portfolio section is a new way to conceive and re-organize photo series by creating portfolios from thematically or geographically linked posts. So instead of searching all of my Uzbekistan posts, for example, here you have them in one place, ready to view.

Another new feature is the Store. You can buy prints or digital copyrights for specific pictures via the 500px store. It’s just a selection, if you need something else please contact me. So that’s it. Back to business:

Street photography in Monochrome. Shot in Poland and Austria in 2014.

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Shooting Anna in Berlin and Lisboa

So, usually, I don’t take photos here. I like photographing people though, mostly it’s street photography. Anyway. I had the joy to hang out with beautiful & charming Anna this year in Lisboa and Berlin and shooting a lot actually 🙂 A couple of shots turned quite well, so I decided to break the convention and put them on here. (@ Anna, immer wieder gerne :-))

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On a Rainy Day in Lisboa

Olá Portugal!

It’s almost two weeks now since I moved to beautiful Lisboa. Besides the training for the job I started, there was a lot of administrative stuff to get done. But now things get settled more and more. There are still a lot of shots left from the last months I want to put on here in the upcoming weeks. But since I am posting now from Portugal, I think it is appropriate to get back with a couple of pictures from my new hometown 🙂

So basically, it’s rainy season now. There are lovely days, too, but there is a lot of rain and moisture and mist (though it doesn’t really get cold, no dear Portuguese people, 15 C° does definitely not count as cold). Still, or maybe even more so, the city is as beautiful and charming as I remember her from my last trips. It’s a joy to be here for a longer period of time. I feel grateful.

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