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Week 12 in Germany & Austria

Final week for the 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 summer

Breslauer Platz: Dom, Hauptbahnhof. Köln, 27 July 2026.
“Just when I think I’m out, Vancouver pulls me back.” Museum Ludwig Köln, 27 July 2026.
Köln Neumarkt, 28 July 2026.
A personal favourite: the home of 1. FC Köln, 28 July 2026.
Greeted by Gagarin at the ESA Astronaut Centre, Köln-Wahn, 29 July 2026.
“Where are you taking us? 1940/41” Köln Deutz, 30 July 2026.
“Der Schwebende” (floating angel), by Ernst Barlach (1927), with the face of friend and fellow artist Käthe Kollwitz. Köln AntoniterCityChurch, 31 July 2026.
“Der Himmelsleiter” / stairway to heaven, by Billi Thanner (2025). Opposite the landmark cathedral in Köln, 31 July 2026.
Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof, 1 August 2026.
Saint Justin’s Church: completed 9th-century CE and oldest known building in the city. Frankfurt am Main, 1 August 2026.
“Synergie”, by Christian Herdeg (1997). Frankfurt am Main, 2 August 2026.
See you again next summer! Flughafen FRA, 3 August 2026.

Week 11 – no comment

To Styria and back to NRW.

Southbound on Semmeringbahn train route: Schwarzaviadukt, facing northwest. Payerbach, 20 July 2026.
Murinsel (island on the river Mur). Graz, 20 July 2026.
Kunsthaus Graz, 21 July 2026.
The Old Town is a part of the inscription for the city’s UNESCO World Heritage Site. Graz, 22 July 2026.
Graz, 22 July 2026.
Graz, 22 July 2026.
Modern man, Mr. N for his time, and Mr. N for this time. Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, 24 July 2026.
Hafentempel (harbour temple), LVR Archeological Park Xanten, 25 July 2026. Note people at lower-right.
Klever Tor (Cleve Gate), which Canadian forces saw as they entered town from the west, 8-11 March 1945. Xanten, 25 July 2026.
“Café Müller” mural by Case Maclaim (2024), representing dance piece with the same title by renowned dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch. Wuppertal, 26 July 2026.
21-seconds: the city’s Schwebebahn (suspension railway) celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. Wuppertal Völklinger Straße, 26 July 2026.

Nussberg, 19. Bezirk, Döbling, Wien, Vienna, Austria, Österreich, fotoeins.com

23 for 23: Foto(ein)s in 2023

Above/featured: Vienna’s green vineyards on Nussberg, with Kahlenberg at centre in the background. Photo, 14 Jun 2023.

A year in review typically provides coverage spanning a period of six months or more; the period doesn’t even have to be a continuous stretch. But in this case, my highlights come solely from a period of six weeks in May and June. All else pales by comparison.

All of the images presented below have been corrected for geometric distortion and rotation, with further adjustments to image-crop, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, sharpness, vibrance, saturation, and colour levels. These images are as always best viewed on screens larger than a miniscule mobile.

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Kleinwasserkraftwerk Wehr 1, Neue Donau, 22. Bezirk, Donaustadt, Wien, Vienna, Austria, Österreich, fotoeins.com

22 for 22: Foto(ein)s for 2022

Above/featured: Vienna skyline from Kleinwasserkraftwerk Wehr I in early morning light. Photo, 7 Jun 2022.

For 2022, the act of looking forward and backward is dominated by a 4-week stay in the city of Vienna. In between the collected images is a reclaimed longing for the Austrian capital to which I was first introduced 20 years ago, but for which there was no camera and, sadly, no recorded pixels.

I’ve already described a set of images setting the urban scenes in Vienna from 2022. Below is an additional set of 22 images selected from a period of 35 days; the time interval represents only 10% of the year, but it appears to be a personally important “watershed moment” as well.

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My Cologne: wandering the streets in Ehrenfeld

For many, the German city of Cologne brings to mind the Cathedral, Karneval, and perfumed water.

For me, Cologne brings to mind great friends, tasty Turkish nibbles, football side 1. FC Köln, and Ehrenfeld.

My friend Y wanted to test her new camera on the streets, and when she suggested the Ehrenfeld neighbourhood, I readily agreed. My many visits to this city on the Rhine have frequently ended up in Ehrenfeld that’s largely Turkish and working class, an immigrant blue-collar area with which I readily identify and it’s why Ehrenfeld is my K-‘hood.

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