pattie and george

so this is from the beatlephotoblog and i have never ever seen it before, so naturally i had to repost :D i´m guessing it´s from george and pattie´s 1966 europe trip, most likely it belongs to the ones taken in monaco. or somewhere in that time frame. loving george´s peeking ears in this one :D

edit: it´s a scan by womenofthebeatles!...

hey where did we go days when the rain came

what do i do on a rainy saturday afternoon? remember how it was last summer... these pictures are from almost exactly a year ago and show what late summer looks like somewhere in the middle of germany. i feel a bit uneasy about showing pics of myself here, so you´ll only get the ones where you can´t make out the faces (or where i´m stuffing myself with apples so you see more apple than face)
anyway i don´t live directily in a city but in the country side and i actually quite like it. running in the fields on a warm day, eating apples directly from the tree and being able to see the next mountains on a clear day is truely something to treasure. have to remind me especially on days like these when it just won´t. stop. raining. in late september... not having it :(











by the by i´m wearing my ringo-in-i-am-the-walrus-tunic. looooove it :D

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

so julian and i share a hobby. what i have seen of this exhibition so far is beautiful.
"timeless" is a good title for a showing of photos. i´ve been thinking about photography a lot lately. through the internet you get to see so many great pictures all the time, by people who run a blog or have a tumblr, and sometimes i wonder why i even try to take nice pictures when everybody could or can. and i also realised that the pictures that at the end of the day impress me the most are the ones that are timeless, simple even in a way. the ones that are still there when you close your eyes, not the ones that fade and morph into eachother, because you´ve seen so many of those perfectly made pics, seen so many repeats of the same styles. i´ve already taken myself out of the "i got an expensive camera and know how to use photoshop"-photographers, because i only take black and whites with an old relfex camera (god that sounded arrogant, sry... i love those kind of people and would love to take pictures like they do... but i tried and failed) and though i know i might never accomplish that, i want to take pictures you could still look at in a hundred years. timeless, and also with an instilled magic that makes you want to look at them for longer than five seconds. and makes you think of them, long after you looked. i want pictures that give you a moment, pictures that don´t rush to the next, and the next, and the next...
i hope i can you show you something that vaguely goes into that direction, soon :D

(quote in headline by ernst haas)

JCJ

cute pic of daddy john, julian and george. from the kenwood blog. new to me. i love all pictures from that day :D

medusa

not the greek goddess... no the italien call jellyfish that. i´m back from my vacation and after two weeks of lounging around in the sun i feel like a medusa... drifting, sailing, living from day to day with no motivation to guide my course, hoping not to get washed towards the sharp rocks and the gravitiy that claims you when you leave the water... part of me hates myself for my laziness and unwillingness to fill my days sensibly, the other encourages my inner cat to do nothing but laying around.

but not willing to change anything yet. my drifter existence is too relaxing to be given up now. real life catches up with me soon anyway.

(images via google)