Beautiful, Silent, Inviting, Deadly
On my last trip to Pennsylvania I visited a place close to Lancaster with large bolders and thick forest. Of course I had my camera with me and soon discovered a fascinating target. Soon I discovered what I was looking for. Welcome to the world of glittering and ingenious deceptions produced by a pair of orb weaver spiders to lure flies and other tiny…
Cambridge River Festival — Running into Japan
On Saturday, June 7, 2014 the Cambridge River Festival was held. It was a hot day with many people streaming past booths representing cultural aspects of Japan. Crafts, vintage kimonos, charitable activities and more were represented there. Many of these Japanese organizations are related to JREX, the Japanese Resource Exchange. Tewassa (related story), (Tewassa Website), an organization raising money towards aiding earthquake and tsunami victims…
My most favorite time of the day
Franklin, located in Massachusetts, is a place close to many lakes, forests and incredible wildlife. This allows me to occasionally take my camera and go for a walk in search of something great, unexpected and photogenic. On one of my most recent strolls through the neighboring forests late one afternoon in May I became aware that I was leaving the world of regulated and…
Bumblebee Pilot Training
Memorial Day offered a chance to visit the beautiful Heritage Museum and Gardens located in Sandwich, Massachusetts. This Cape Cod place, besides some very interesting indoor museums, features many colorful flowers attracting not only insects such as bumblebees but also a wide variety of photographers such as me. Sticking my nose and camera deep into all kinds of bushes I was able to take…
Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival in Brookline, Massachusetts
Not too long ago I had the chance to visit a Japanese style cherry blossom festival in Brookline, near Boston. It was held at the local high school. What really stood out was that the audience, as well as the performers were all participating. It was a dancing, drumming, very happy matsuri community. I also would like to point out that Tewassa, an organization raising…
Watching a Dragon Come to Life
Imagine a theater stage where, at the beginning, all you see is large sheet of paper spanning from one side to the other with only a few cherry blossom pedals painted here and there. Then and artist, dressed in a beautiful kimono performs a magic show just with a few brush strokes. I never saw a modern Japanese calligraphy show except on TV and…
Philadelphia’s Sakura Sunday – Hello Spring !!!
Philadelphia’s Cherry Blossom Festival, better known as Sakura Sunday, was recently held at Fairmount Park on April 13, 2014. It was organized by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia (JASGP). Beautiful spring weather and an outstanding program featuring a variety of artists from Japan and the United States contributed to the success of this event. Without too many words the following photos will hopefully…
Spring Photo Gallery
This is an ongoing collection of various photos taken mostly around Massachusetts throughout spring 2014. I will add more as soon as I get more chances to enjoy spring with my camera. There are just a few photos shown here as spring is just about to begin. More will be added continuously. Thank you very much for visiting. Click on an image to view…
Around the Cape – Inspirations and Photos
Please click on an image to view photos in slideshow format. For many children growing up in Austria, surrounded by mountains, a future life close to the sea is mostly a far-fetched exotic idea. The thunder of waves, the changing colors of the oceans, the sounds of fishing boats’ diesel engines, seagulls sailing high in blue skies, the taste of saltwater, witnessing four seasons are impressions…
Tohoku, Japan – 3 years after
First I was not sure if I should publish this post. I realize that it is a sensitive matter for many of my friends and readers. The photos here are silent witnesses of a time only a few months after the 3-11-11 disaster in Tohoku, Japan. This is how I was able to witness this place thanks to the kind help of a local friend. As…
A walk at the beach
Most of the time I lived not very close to the sea. From the Philadelphia area it was of course easy to plan a quick 2 hour ride to the Jersey shore mostly in the summer. Now, that I live relatively close to Cape Cod it is easy to pick up my camera and head out to the shore whenever the possibility exists. Sometimes it is already…
Loving Hands Quilting for Tohoku
Tohoku Thoughts – Three Years after the Earthquake and Tsunami — Tohoku People — Kind and welcoming. Happy, cheerful, no-nonsense attitude. Hardworking, honest and good-hearted, shy at first then opening the world for you. More than anything else: Resilient and Tough. — Memories — Forests and the summer rain. Mountains, a glass of sake, Cicadas, fishing boats and oyster farms. Hot Springs, Herbs, Food from Sea and Land, Snow, Stories, Inspirations. Friends….
Restoring a 1961 Ford Starliner vintage car
Casually working on a car is one thing. To be dedicated to restoring a heavily used vintage car is another. This will be an ongoing blog about finding a new home for this restored Ford, Starliner built in 1961. Here is the story and photos. Introduction: Over the past years I watched my friend Brian Moss, living near Wilmington, DE, bring back the live and beauty of a…
Country Gazette Newspaper Appearance
Country Gazette, Franklin Edition, Friday, February 28, 2014 It does not happen every day that one opens the local newspaper in the morning and finds some very familiar images published in it. The Country Gazette, published in the Franklin, MA area, featured a section which included some of my photos. They were carefully arranged on a page called Photographer’s Portfolio. I would like to thank the Country Gazette for featuring…
Blizzard Commute
Originally posted on Cafe Gute Katze & GoodTimes English:
Franklin Line T Commuter Train becoming visible through the heavy blizzard snow Took these photos of the Franklin Line T commuter train while cross-country skiing through a nearby forest during the last blizzard. It was amazing to still see the trains in operation on this day despite the large amount of snow and ice. Sometimes I wonder…
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