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Welcome to my weblog and thanks for stopping by! My most recent posts are all on this page, for older ones browse the archives or click the keywords in the sidebar. See Potomac Adventures for posts that I wrote between 2011 and May 2013 and Brobo Photo for those from 2006 to 2011. My weblogs contain hundreds of articles and photographs and are an essential part of my work. They show my never-ending passion for visual storytelling and the interaction of photography and text. For less volatile information about my work, see my Home Page. Coffee and Critique
June 26, 2013
After giving up my studio in the Torpedo Factory, I was looking for a photo community that would consume less time than my previous venture. One that would be sophisticat...
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Second Glance
June 21, 2013
If I haven't posted anything for a while, it's usually a "good" sign, because I'm busy with other projects. Over the last weeks, I wrote some articles for the German Emba...
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Documerica
June 07, 2013
DOCUMERICA was a project sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency during the early 1970s. After decades of economic growth in the United States, the newly founded...
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Point-and-Shoot #1: Freedom Plaza
June 03, 2013
Die Freedom Plaza liegt östlich des Weißen Hauses an der Pennsylvania Avenue, zwischen 13. und 14. Straße. In der Nähe befindet sich der Pershing Park und das Willard Hot...
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Farewell Potomac Adventures
June 03, 2013
"Potomac Adventures" was my new weblog after moving to the United States in late 2011. It reflected the state of mind I was in at that time. Facing a new life and work en...
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Moving out...
May 29, 2013
Many of you already knew that I was going to give up Studio 306 in the Torpedo Factory. Actually, yesterday was my last day. Coincidentally, Jim, my good friend and studi...
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Rolling Thunder 2013
May 28, 2013
Rolling Thunder is an organization to draw attention to the prisoners of war (POWs) and missing in action (MIA) service members of the U.S. wars. Their annual event, held...
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Relaunching gkrueger.com
May 13, 2013
During the last week, I have worked on relaunching my online photo presence. On www.gkrueger.com, you can now see a nicely presented and professionally hosted portfolio o...
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"Nine days after" addition
May 10, 2013
I created an addition to the April 25th posting Nine days after... (about the Boston Marathon Bombing) that briefly discusses the issue whether the important pictures are...
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Princeton
May 02, 2013
Princeton University was a real surprise among the Ivy League schools we visited during our vacation trip. A huge and clean campus in a nice town, old "Harry Potter" styl...
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The Glass Flowers
April 30, 2013
At Harvard University we visited the Natural History Museum, mainly to see the world-famous collection of highly-realistic Glass Flowers:
The glass models were cre...
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The MIT
April 30, 2013
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of biggest names in computer science. For any software engineer, it is on the same level as Stanford University and every...
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Martha's Vineyard
April 29, 2013
Today, we visited Martha's Vineyard, the famous "island of the rich" near Cape Cod:
The Obamas may want to stay here all summer (probably for good reasons), but I...
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Magnified
April 28, 2013
Of course, many of you know who that is, but any ideas where it might be?
Hint: You can see a small piece of the "IBM Mark I" computer in the background;-)
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Fish
April 27, 2013
I saw this "fish" on a sidewalk in Woods Hole today:
Entirely made from light and shadow - I couldn't resist to photograph it:
Half an hour later, it was go...
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