OMO! (Oh my Odin!)

Sunday was a mild and sunny day and so my idea of how to spent it included a trip to the cemetery Melaten in Cologne; certainly one of the most impressive cemeteries in all Germany. Lots of money is buried there, and I think of grave monuments and decoration when I mention this.




Of cause my idea was completely new, unique and unorthodox. Therefore it could not implicitly qualify as a surprise that my count of fellow photographers went up to four in the first ten minutes there and had reached a mind boggling fourteen when I left two hours later, could it?




Some were just taking out their expensive equipment for a walk, toying around with their shiny tripods and heavy camera bags, always looking for locations where they could be seen and not necessarily for the spots from which they would be able to take a quality shot. But most of the others really took photos and some even impressed me, because they were obviously not going for the graves, monuments, perspectives that "everyone" - especially first time visitors - would go for.

But back to numbers! Now add about seven, eight or even nine gay couples promenading there. Don't know if there is any special reason for it, but they happen to like that cemetery, too.




Can you imagine how "normal" visitors, mourners and relatives of the buried might have felt in this "invasion of the weird"? [Aaargh! At the x. reading I noticed that this is easily capable of being misunderstood; of course with "weird" I refer to the summed up whole bunch of just promenaders, be they photographers, any kind of couples or whatever.] I barely can presume that.

But they are most likely used to this and do no longer feel a thing.

Anyway. Me, too, took by far too many photos, they summed up to 370. Even if you subtract the boring "just for documentary purposes" photos without any composition and take in account that I've taken at least two, sometimes up to ten of any of the other motives there remain still hellish many photos. I hope I will submit perhaps 5 or six of them somewhen more or less soon.

On my way to Cologne I had passed the power plant Neurath and yesterday I decided that my time and mood allowed a short visit there. On a normal workingday I would at least be assured to be not one of a dozen photographers but the only one there.




This time I was almost right, almost as in "almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day" (take a look at me! ). To be honest, no dozen, just about half a dozen and even then I have to include me in the count.




Digital photography can be quite nice. I don't think I would have taken more than 550 photos of that power plant if I'd be tied to celluloid. This time you can safely divide that number by 20, and even then most of the rest shows huge resemblances. Again I think that only a handful can make it to DA.

Nevertheless, two days and too many photos.

But I like it that way. It's the way I do it, taking lot of shots, so some won't disappoint me or will wow me even more than the others. If it only wasn't such a plight to browse though them all, sort them and pick the ones that I want to make a submission of.

That's all my news for now.
Have a nice day, Joerg
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