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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. At the Antique Store
March 10, 2014
After lots of snow and ice and after 7 weeks of very little activity on my weblog I'll hopefully be back soon. I'm almost fully done with the work on the 8th edition of m...
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Land unter!
February 13, 2014
Gestern Abend fing es an zu schneien, und heute morgen lagen dann tatsächlich 30 Zentimeter. Die Medien hatten natürlich den ganzen Tag über gewarnt, so ein bisschen Schn...
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Point-And-Shoot #10: Bao Bao
February 09, 2014
D.C.s allerjüngste Berühmtheit lebt weder im Weißen Haus noch im Capitol und ist weder Business Woman noch TV Celebrity. Mit ihrem zarten Alter von nicht einmal sechs Mon...
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Congressional Cemetery
February 07, 2014
The Congressional Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southeast D.C., right above the banks of the Anacostia River. It was founded before the civil war and features a numb...
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National Building Museum
January 27, 2014
As mentioned before, my time is somewhat limited right now. I'm still taking photographs, but can't really provide a lot of text or create reportages, as usual. Over the...
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Keine Zeit
January 22, 2014
Eigentlich habe ich gar keine Zeit zum Bloggen. Das Handbuch der Java-Programmierung muss überarbeitet werden, in der Torpedo Factory gibt es ein außerordentlich zeitaufw...
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Snow and Ice on the Potomac
January 11, 2014
With only a few days of low temperatures, we were surprised to see how quickly the Potomac River started to freeze. Nights were as low as minus 15 degrees (Celsius) on We...
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Point-And-Shoot #9: Lancaster County Dutch Market
January 09, 2014
Fast jeder, der die USA besucht, hat schon einmal etwas von den "Amish People" gehört, einer Bevölkerungsgruppe, deren Leben in starkem Kontrast zu der üblichen amerikani...
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Journey into the past
January 06, 2014
If I only had a time machine, I would travel into the 60s and 70s, with a camera around my neck, and photograph the places where I lived and the things I did. I would sne...
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In der Kunsthalle
December 31, 2013
Liebe Freunde, dieser Heimaturlaub war kein Foto-Urlaub! (Schöne) Besuche bei Freunden, Verwandten und ehemaligen Kollegen, 2000 Autokilometer in eineinhalb Wochen, sowie...
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On a long, boring Flight...
December 20, 2013
On my last flight from D.C. to Germany I got inspired by artist Nina Katchadourian's work. On a trip between London and New York, she once created " flight art " with her...
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Las Meninas Reloaded
December 12, 2013
Taking a picture (with my GX7) of my friend who is taking a picture (with his EP3) inside the American Indian Museum:
(I wish I knew what his camera captured at that m...
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The First Snow
December 08, 2013
Today, it snowed for the first time this winter. Actually, it's not even winter yet. Anyway, while going out on a little walk, I took a few pictures with my E-M1. Body an...
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"Mein Kampf" bei Barnes & Noble
December 06, 2013
This country is full of surprises. Believe it or not, while browsing through the shelves at Barnes and Noble, the largest book retailer in the United States, I suddenly g...
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Point-And-Shoot #8: Sycamore Island
December 01, 2013
Mein Nachbar Bob lebt schon ewig in Potomac. Wir treffen uns gelegentlich beim spazieren gehen. Vor einiger Zeit erzählte er mir von einer geheimnisvollen Insel im Potoma...
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