December 2024

[John Geerts]

Very cute!

Thanks Adli!

[Fons Baerken]

Friday december 13

local  afternoon

Z fc  _  Z16-50/3.5~6.3

[Fons Baerken]

December 14

Came along a spider

Z7_2  Voigtländer 35mm f/2

[John Geerts]

Bro and Sis
D850 58G

[golunvolo]

Thank you all for the nice comments.

[golunvolo]

I haven't been posting much lately, on top of being busy with the end of the trimester, I have some discontfor  in my left wrist that doesn't let me shot for long, specially with heavier equipment. I'm sure it will get better with time and some care. This brings me to today's choice of gerar: d5300 ir and 35mm f2 ai.

  Invisible layers

[pluton]

Christmas time in Santa Monica, at one of the local office buildings.

[Frank Fremerey]

there are people called "investors" whose main goal is to make as much money with a building lot as possible. Build fast and cheap sell fast and expensive. The Administration tries to make these people abide the law at least, politics tries to bring these people to at least caring a little bit about beauty and the neighbouring built environment. This is a fight "money vs beauty" and beauty loses too often...


A flat here typically costs 1 Million Euros. Building it is 400.000 or even less. All people in the city suffer from this uglyness in a prominent place for the next 50 years.


The price guarantees that the kind of people who live there are better off than most of us. To buy such a flat you have to belo g to the top 1% in Germany. Income rich is not enough. You have to need an inheritance on top of it.

[KarlMera]

Winter flowers

[Ian Watson]

there are people called "investors" whose main goal is to make as much money with a building lot as possible. Build fast and cheap sell fast and expensive. The Administration tries to make these people abide the law at least, politics tries to bring these people to at least caring a little bit about beauty and the neighbouring built environment. This is a fight "money vs beauty" and beauty loses too often...

A typically charmless modern development. You could have told me that it was here in Canada. There is definitely a malaise at work but I would not blame investors per se.

[Fons Baerken]

December 15

Spiders too

Z7_2  -  Voigtländer 35mm f/2

[John Geerts]

Christmas in Lier, Belgium.  A Christmas house  based on a story of Felix Timmermans  More info: https://kempensekerststallen.be/herberg-zeemeerminnetje/

D850 24-70vr

[golunvolo]

Charlie's Angels 

 D5300 ir, 35mm f2 ai

[Frank Fremerey]

A typically charmless modern development. You could have told me that it was here in Canada. There is definitely a malaise at work but I would not blame investors per se.

It is a certain kind of people looking at the built environment as Excel Sheets only

[Fons Baerken]

December 16

cat

D850  -   afs 105mm f/1.4 E