Kasprowy Wierch

Zakopane Mountains, typical mountain weather - at times wet and windy, at times calm and dry. Cable car to the top followed by a four-hour walk down, down, and further down!  

Occulto Festival

Occulto Fest, West Germany, May 2012

Self portrait with Ian

The bar

Multiple exposure of the crowd

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Alice

Fabio Orsi

Schmoeckwitz

Stillness .... shhhhhh

Hohenschönhausen Lichtenburg Black and White

Corridors of the East German Ministry of State Security or 'Stasi' prison.

More interview rooms than inmates, for psychological effect.  Politcal prisoners and those seeking to escape to the West were pychologically tortured.

Tiger cages.  Outdoor exercise cages for prisoners.

Alte National Museum

Refused the headphones.  Such a load of drivel.  Looking at boring paintings.  Being spoken at by monologues.  Try to find something good.

A fantastic jumper steals the show.  The hair stands like antennae.  The concentration intense.

Thank goodness for the Impressionists!

And lovely gold rimmed door frames.

Coffee served inefficiently in the bookshop.  Small square tables.  Fake sculptures watching from their shelves.  Who buys them?

Altes Museum

Cleopatra V11 (69-30BC), last Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt.  Watched by Julius Ceasar (100-44BC), Dictator of Rome.

 Classical sculptures. Revealling all.

Schlachtensee under snow

Freezing cold platform.  Slippery underfoot.  Tentatively walking on the lake.  Sounds of deep gurgles below.  Music of a frozen lake.  People walking, skating, skiing, sledging, cycling ... swimming.  People with BBQs cooking sausages.  People brewing gluwein.  On the frozen lake.   

A hole cut out of the ice.  Swimmers get in.  Then they get out, put on shoes, hats, gloves and drink warm liquid.  Mostly naked.  Looking comfortable.  Its minus 10 degrees.  

Taking photographs of lines, whiteness, trees, people, interrupted patterns.  Hot chocolate with rum indoors.  Bratwurst, mustard and bread outdoors.  A blanket helps to keep warm.  Its still minus 10.
Diana F, NC colour film.