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This might get ugly #10

(ISO 100, f6.3 @ 32mm, 1/320sec., 11:42) This one is from a set for the George Clooney movie “Monuments Men”. I was lucky with the crane and the weather that day. A little later and we had heavy rain and without the crane I wouldn’t have shot it.

This might get ugly #9

(ISO 50, f11 @ 25mm, 1.6sec., 12:02) Theme parks are all about entertainment, right? I often thought about IKEA in this place. Adventure shopping, shopping adventures, the borders are fluent these days… The tour guide leading us through this movie set was so kind to give me some extra time with the location.

This might get ugly #1

(ISO 100, f8.0 @ 15mm, 2sec., 10:05) Starting a new series with this one. The places are some kind of theme parks. Artificial paradises. Not the Baudelaire kind – more those ones we take our kids to on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Escapism maybe. Still exploring…

Urban Art Biennale, Völklingen world heritage site

(ISO 100, f8 @ 82mm, 1/5sec., 12:23) Apart from exhibitions about the history and the technical details of iron production there is also room for modern art in the vast space of the Völklingen Ironworks. Sebastião Salgado, EVOL, Shepard Fairey and Bill Viola are only a few of the many artists who have been shown here. The exhibition area is both open (on top) and closed (massive walls) at the…

Völklingen Ironworks, view from the charging platform

(ISO 100, f8 @ 30mm, 1/125sec., 14:21) I am standing on the charging platform here approx. 27m above the ground and we are looking towards one of the three slag heaps of the ironworks. The slag mountains are locally called “Hostenbacher Alps” and reach a height of 90 to 130m. Interestingly the heat inside these slag heaps might have contributed to the development of a great variety of lichens. Scientific…

Parking lot, Völklingen Ironworks

(ISO 100, f11 @ 25mm, 1/30sec., 19:46) This was one of the first images I took after I arrived in Völklingen and the making was a bit bizarre: While I positioned my tripod some guys in their 20’ies surrounded me with their cars. They circled around me with their engines roaring. I completely ignored them and tried to compose the frame. After a while they stopped it and parked a…

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