starting with my random folder june for digitals.

visiting tanja in her flat. she loves to be photographed ! ;)

after a match, don't exactly remember which, kati got herself a veggie-kebap.. some late night snack



another night after shooting for the graffiti project. i think it was russia - sweden.

the white dot got our attention

toilets in the WUK.


visiting my father. caprese deluxe style !


24mil-hipshot.. turned out kinda cute


watching italy - spain


my father really believed in italy ;)

starting with the b/w rolls.

i was reading some discussion about streetphotography on rangefinder.net or is it com ?

the title was "is streetphotography dead" or something.. my blog was mentioned to prove the opposite, cheers for that ! so i think it's time again to feature some of the not-dead-yet-photography !




the dark dots appeared because i didn't realize there was no stop-bath anymore during the development.. plusx seems to need more than water in between the developer and fix.. kinda sux, because it will be on the print.. well shit happens, even after hundreds of times developing films.

at my favourite italian restaurant.


katrin was checking my glasses.. well, i don't think they fit. she doesn't think they fit me either.. haha, seems like i wasted 200 euros...



when i think back, the euro feels like a dream for me.. maybe a personal thing.. but it went all quick and there was no time to think about the event, the photos, relation ships, a lot of work, not much sleep.. and all that.. now weeks later, looking at the photos, it feels like it has never happened in reality

talking about serious things never made me quit taking photos, especially when the light was that nice. efke25 btw.


looking for tv-coverage. we live in the 21th century.. but some things never developed !


oh the sunny days. unlike the last 2 weeks full of rain and clouds.



very simple message.. kinda weird. when i'm not able to think about something like this message, i just capture it, so that i have time to think about it later. i still don't understand the meaning behind this, if there is any.

a motif for a 25asa film i thought.



something about the euro..


the devils car got kidnapped !




this guy knows how it works !

veit at the project




turkish girls before the match against croatia, singing "tyrkie" and jumping in rhythm


claudia with flowers

yppenplatz. sun reflecting from a window


girl playing with a matchbox car.


a tuhrkish advert for women wear. some things don't need to be discussed.


guy with dollarsign-hood.


view on a church from 16th district.

turkish television.


mother and son at the graffiti project.


croatian boy drinking juice.


fans on the street

turkish market area



lorant being exhausted, in the train to a marriage we were photographing. we got the train just "in time" ;)

the only shot i took with the leica. more at the blog.

going back


back in vienna. monk checking the trains


at the garbage bins.


"art is war" sounds .. silly. well they look silly.


getting some icecream. first streetshot i was somewhat content with again after a while

good for him it's summer.


random photo after russia won against netherlands


random photo i like. trix with nd filter


probably my favourite advert for streetshots during the em. "live the emotion". i used it for the germans when they lost the final.


some deix guy.

one of my latest fav streetshots. something that motivates me for printing again.


i was always wondering about what kind of man is reading the "mens health" magazine...


he seems to read different "mags".


a photo for alice schwarzer.


i once put my brand new shoes in a cloth-collecting-box for chairty and went home barefoot. i was bloody drunk though.


felzl.


my father, doing some typical gesture.


dinner

black-white cat lost ! i probably took the only real b/w photo of it !

intresting way of sleeping


miriam trying herself in interior design

this guy still fascinated me


nina, not hiding with her rayban.

trying to make the batman face. i've read the new one should be good, is it true ?


it's a he. she doens't have a name yet though. florian would be funny. hoffe du liest das und findest es auch lustig HA-HA.

back to the turks.



at the "la salvia"

at the market. people throwing food straight in the bin. "space for new things" written in the back.


"the highlanders bride" and "the vikings concubine" two must-haves !


back to alice schwarzer.


back to my father. after 22 years of disaster, my father managed to empty the cellar and the balcony-room. i helped. so we could finaly eat on the balcony again.

R.I.P "Rumpelkammer"

back to the streetshots. to bad i'm listed as a judge here i'd rather participate ;) .. i hope you send in some quality, the camera is worth it !

the advert is saying "guck guck!" meaning "peep-bo!" loving the little details here.


lady with a useless shitting styling object.


talking about the weltuntergang and such.


hope my shots are motivating for the contest ;) one more classic

here is another one. vienna meets paris.

back to vienna ;)


train to salzburg.


trainstation salzburg.

some hobby-soldier.


train back to vienna. i was "chimping" on my 5D when i saw her typing with the apple in her mouth. couldn't resist.


almost arrived.. i decided to walk around.


piss.. and take the obligatory self in the train.


back in vienna. after the parade. still with the 24 ts/e.

mary poppins at the atm. right before the storm.


after some weiße spritzer.. changing location. getting some glimmstängel.

"praying for acception" may sound silly. never said i was native !


morgenstern barbecue. the following photos seem strange to me.


obviously a decisive moment !

ingo wondering about his dirty hands.


raffi laughing about lorant being a crackhead.


some guy spitting fire.


sophia in their new flat.


we were playing the game where you have to get to know who you are, well who the person or thing is on your head.

so here we have hillary clinton !

bernd das brot and yoda from starwars.



later schef was ötzi which was rather tricky to guess... :D


family portrait.


we were going to the cinema. watching "paris".

germans eat popcorn with sugar. something i find absolutely wrong.. but the funny thing is, in austria they don't offer sweet popcorn in cinemas.

we were going to get some drinks for the movie.. when miriam stumbled across this package of sweet popcorn.. we both didn't expect to find that in a tiny subway-supermarked.

now thats a face of joy !

boy with roses. take a random photo of people in the underground, it never will be boring as long as you dare to shoot.


after the movie. i'd rate 7/10.. i was waiting for miriam.


back from the toilet.


walking home.


wasting the last frame of the trix.

the next day. first sunny day after a week or longer. mother with two daugthers taking the bus to a public swimming pool.


we took the bus to a more silent place.


having a picnic.

haha.. what a silly moment.


there were lamas too! they came out of nowhere.

going back downtown.. we sadly met some vienniese redneck people in the train filming their utter stupidity..


waiting for the subway. it's not only underground ;)


taking a picture of the last sunrays, knowing there won't be many in the next days. this july is like april or worse.


i'd love to have this kind of watch at home.

punk is not dead. same for streetphotography, b/w films and rangefinders !

what's left of the euro.


cute puppy !


another must have photo i thought.


posh lady checking the sky. hope she's got her all-weather taft !


lady reading newspaper with glasses in her mouth.

someone missunderstood soemthing.


this is what the weather is like most of the time

parade 2008 vienna

as you will see, i was going for other photographers and other freaks this time.

the first parade i've been to has quite changed my view of photorgaphy, especially the documentation and journalistic sort of. I felt ashamed for having a camera round my neck back then. So i decided to document the documenting part of the parade.
This year i thought i'd use a tilt lens to seperate those i want to focus on from the others, because the whole actual show the parade itself is no real show for me, the - how i call it - freakshow is happening around the gays, lesbians and transsexuals.

so here we go !

(those two of course are excluded)

arguing about "tit-shots"

(inspired by gilad)

her beard grew larger !







almost a tradition. sharing a bottle of red with markus

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i think i don't need to comment each shot. of course i don't mean to harm anyone here.. i just try to make a different picture of the parade.

for the geeks: canon 5d 24/3.5L ts-e @ f5.0 iso100 manual exp. manual focus.

So the european championship is over. Now vienna feels like there has never been any event happened. Austria is really good in not taking any advantage of such a great spectacle. Personally i'm really uspet with the organisation of the euro, i think the whole thing couldn't have been worse,.. i mean at least it was rather calm so there was not much crime activity, which is nice, but a euro without the fans and people rather misses the point.

The following photos are non comissioned ones. I was shooting during the day for the graffiti project
and didn't have much time to take photos of fans except after work and i also could not change location, so it was more or less luck to be in fan in a fan aeria or not.


like noone would have believed it, turkey won against the czechs and made it into the 1/4 finals.

the turks simply know how to celebrate.. it was always the best when they won.

the next game i would have loved to document more but couldn't, was austria vs. germany.

of course we (austria) lost and germany kicked us out of the cup. but we're still the best at pissing on canvas.



he probably represents the austrian middle aged fan very well that night.



germany won with a free kick goal but rather did a bad job beside. so nobody was happy about the game.. there was nobody celebrating.. very strange for a euro..

i mean these people came straight from the stadium and it felt as if both had lost



more fans from the stadium in the subway



yawning was all you could do.

a shirt saying "everything ends" in a vienniese slang.. kinda true for that night.



then germany won against portugal. nobody wanted to believe it. probably the worst thing that could have happened, speaking about the attractiveness of the upcoming games.



next match:

croatia vs. turkey



the croats were pretty sure they'd win

but during the game it didn't look that clear anymore





guy with brasil shirt (wrong cup dude!), croats celebrating for no special reason..





guy eating döner kebap in between the croats

is this the end ? still no goal but people got more and more nervous



in the break the national television was interviewing the attractive part of the fans almost typical for huge sport events. balls and tits.



i walked over to the turks to have a look

but there was more action on the other side and i still believed the croats would win anyway.





the last minutes of the official time





90minutes were played, time to celebrate that both were still in the game..

the APA guys were doing their job







it was close to the penalty and it was still zero - zero. there was a turkish hairdressing salon right in the middle of the croatian fan area. i went inside to have a look.



then all of a sudden.. it was the last minute of the game the croats made their goal !

it was almost sure that this meant the victory for them







but somehow the turks managed to get the round leather thing into the net in minute 122 or something.. i didn't even realize what happened at first.



people were paralysed

then there was the penalty





and the croats lost it.



some bottles were thrown and some weird box was fired.

at the turkish side, there was mass hysteria.



there was no way to drive.

even the police was undercover



he took a break outside. it was the only thing you could do.. there was no place to drive





a celebrating croat !



a pissed croat !

so the turks played against the germans. half final !





official photographer checking the sky for rain.



turks being all positive before the game

watching on the powerbook

goal for the turks.. people were going crazy

the first drops.







it started to rain. people still watched the game outside, with



and without umbrella

i was only shooting at 1.4 and 3200 anymore..







the weather was so bad, the TV-coverage in almost whole europe was gone.

most of the photographers were escaping before the strom came. seems like their camera isn't worth a couple of nice frames ;)





so they could only pray without seeing the game.

then the apocalyptic weather joined us



most people were trying to escape.. i was trying to get some photos at 1.4 and 3200 in a strom like that.. the lens was covererd with raindrops.. autofocus didn't work anymore.



others tried to hide ?



she seemed to enjoy it



incoming phone call, probably trying to tell some updates about the game nobody could watch in TV anymore



two hardliners. i must say, i was a bit worrying about my camera at that time



so i tried to find some more dry place.



it was pissing down







i switched the place one last time and got my picture taken.





the camera and lens had to dry for some hours to fully work again and then everything went on as usual.

the weather didn't change much. the fan areas stayed empty.





so we went inside to watch the game russia vs. spain.







spain won and made it into the finals against germany.

the last game. finally.



this time the fan area reached its limit. this poor guy only could say good bye to his buddy





there were a lot of german fans and only a few spanish.. but every austrian was for spain anywere.. so it was 50/50 all together













the match was not going well for the germans



so they were hoping for the best in their flags





like i said. almost all spain fans were austrians in real.



but not even the final game was spectacular







there was nothing to be proud of.





then it was over. germany lost.



and austria was celebrating !?



boobs were always more intresting then the game



in the city, some people were left, not celebrating at all.



the german result of dreams 3:0 got updated to 0:1





for what reason was this picture taken of ?



he did the only right thing, getting real drunk.



they were not amused about people like me who documented this awful night.



some probably spend a lot of money to see their team lose.





others still were proud of germany



he will probably wake up some hours later, not knowing if he got that drunk becuase they won or rather because they lost ?



take "him" home. the trophy was meant.



you can always lose a game when you still have a girl to hug !



one of the official adverts by KIA saying "experience the emotion" right next to the very emotional german fans.



maybe 2 ballacks would have made it ?



the way out



i must say in the end i really don't care about the whole event, who had lost and who had won.. but it was obvious that austria was happy about germans loss in the final.. it's simply an evidence of incapacity that so many austrians were so gleeful about it, when their own team only shot one goal in the whole cup in a penalty that was rather a gift of the referee.