Photographs & Memories

Montañita, Ecuador, 10 Dezember 2012  V irginia took this picture. We are not a couple very more.   It is amazing what a picture can trigger. There are so many things that go through my head when looking at it that there is no way to capture and get hold of them. It is beyond my comprehension how our brain is able to simplify and make sense of what seems to me totally incomprehensible. I doubt that it is me, my consciousness, that does the selection of what is remembered.   It seems to me that a mechanism is at play that only the very vain ones think they understand.

Busan, am 8. Juni 2026 Manchmal findet man etwas, von dem man gar nicht wusste, dass man es suchte. Doch vielleicht ist das ja Wunschdenken. Jedenfalls: Ich erlebte mich an diesem Montag recht lustlos und unmotiviert, fragte mich wieder einmal, wieso man tut, was man tut, und vom meisten gar nichts richtig mitkriegt. Trotzdem bewegte ich mich dann aus dem Hotel, fragte mich durch zum Hafen, stiess in der Folge auf die Parkanlage hinter dem Bahnhof  – und war begeistert, da man dort viel Weite und das Meer erleben kann. Und besser als diese Kombination geht es bei mir nicht.

Pohang, South Korea, 11 June 2026 Photography is essentially about framing: What to put inside tje frame, and what to leave out. Equally important are light and background. The sun was shining on this rose when I passed by, and so I tried my best to capture it. Also, I was very conscious of how to place it against the background.

  With Telmo in Busan, 9 June 2026 Telmo, a neurosurgeon from Santa Cruz do Sul, is learning a new technique at one of Busan's hospitals. That we should meet here  – he takes English classes with me in Santa Cruz  – is a wonderful coincidence. The guy who's responsible for Telmo's well-being during his stay drives us to various pretty marvellous sights in East Busan. It is a most enjoyable trip!

19. April 2018, Zürich Bordeaux, France, 13. Juni 2019. You most definitely look older than you think you do when a young woman offers you her seat on the bus.

Murg, 6. Mai 2021 Fotos sind für mich Erinnerungsstützen. Meistens weiss ich genau,  wo ich sie aufgenommen habe, wann das gewesen ist, jedoch eher selten.  Das weiss mein Kamera-Bilderspeicher. .