Throwback July 29, 2015. Berlin Subway. Apparently travelling for fun not profit back then; I can't remember any single day to use public transports over there on a business trip. And, too, somehow Berlin lost some of its inspiration in the years since then... .

#throwback #smartphonephotography #berlin #travel

News | BBC: Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water... (weiter) (Screenshot)

#News #Greek #Refugees #Mediteranean-Sea #Throwback #murder #CoastGuard #english #bbc #2024-06-21

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say - BBC News

More than 40 people are alleged to have died as a result of Greek coastguard actions, BBC analysis reveals.

Throwback May 29, 2007. More quiet images from that particular age. Originally on Flickr and still out there I guess, despite not really using that very platform anymore. Still, reminded of certain styles of music, certain conversations, certain contacts that seem to have remained there or vanished altogether. The web as an increasingly ephemeral environment.

#throwback #gimp #digital_imaging #outerworld #quiet_cities

#digital imaging #quiet cities

Throwback April 12, 2012. Stories of old. The kind of art to emerge in buildings left behind, partially reclaimed by nature, partially still keeping that old coat of decoration and paint meant for their very own purposes, once. (On Instagram, years earlier.)

#throwback #smartphonephotography #dresden #urban_exploration #along_the_way

#urban exploration #along the way

Throwbach March 22, 2007. Scenes from imaginary movies after listening to certain kinds of music. These days it's hard to get back to this kind of visuals, for whichever reasons. Maybe it's also something that used to have its time. Originally posted on Flickr.

#throwback #gimp #digital_imaging #outerworld #urban_exploration

#digital imaging #urban exploration

Throwback March 1, 2015. Old connectivity casting shadows. Desaturated not just by the years gone by. But still a certain aesthetics in old unanswered phones. Originally posted to Instagram.

#throwback #smartphonephotography #dresden #technology_and_its_amazing_consequences #disconnected

#technology and its amazing consequences

Throwback Feb 21, 2014. That's when travelling to Berlin and spending a few nights in the busy city was something one really did for fun, somewhat regularly. And even there, trying to find the silence in things. Initially posted to Instagram.

#throwback #smartphonephotography #berlin #travel

Throwback Feb 19, 2015. Winter sun in Dresden Neustadt. Apparently commuting home, given how the light casts its shadows. Little traffic, and already a little warmth in things. Originally on Instagram.

#throwback #smartphonephotography #dresden #commute #outerworld

#Sundaygimp #Throwback

Throwback Jan 22, 2019. A narrow parking backyard in some odd Munich hotel. Somewhat recent past compared to other old posts in here, yet from a different life. Annual kick-off event with my former company. The usual conflicting sentiments of having a good time with some great colleagues while general structure and mood in the organization already was deterioriating back then. (And, remember diving into a wholly different kind of darkness all along a lengthy conversation with the night porter in that particular place. It doesn't get more "gothic" than that.)

#throwback #business_travel #munich #backyards

#business travel

Throwback Jan 19, 2014. Apparently a Sunday, but I don't really remember the place to encounter this visual perspective. Most likely some Dresden museum. Always had a thing for such views. Originally on Instagram.

#throwback #smartphonephotography #dresden #monochrome #architecture

Throwback Jan 10, 2017. Commuting to work. We apparently used to have snow back then, in what seemed a pretty grey and gloomy day too.

#throwback #outerworld #smartphonephotography #dresden #the_winter_and_the_lights #commute

#the winter and the lights

Throwback: Jan 5, 2013. Commuting to work on a cloudy day. Originally on Instagram.

#outerworld #throwback #smartphonephotography #dresden #commute

Throwback Dec 16, 2010. Initially posted to Facebook, just the late months before this channel lost most of what once made it inspiring and creative. Originally a series labeled "Grenzland", spanning some more shots, taken with the utterly crappy Palm Pre camera, all of them containing the text "/b/orders" for reasons not subject to explanation anymore. Maybe a good memory while into finally getting rid of Facebook altogether. Borders aren't where one ends, borders might also be where there's room for growth.

#outerworld #throwback #palm_pre #grenzland

#palm pre

Throwback Dec 10, 2009. View from my back-then office window. Early morning. Originally posted to Facebook.

#throwback #dresden #sunrise

Throwback Dec 8, 2012. What seems to have been a frosty winter morning. The building on the right, socialist modernism in slow decay, back then only contained a bunch of smaller stores, a walk-in laundry service and a carpenter workshop. And disappeared a couple of years later, making room for a discounter superstore and parking lots. Time passes, and structures change, not necessarily for the better.

#throwback #smartphonephotography #outerworld #dresden_johannstadt #the_winter_and_the_lights #before_sunrise

#dresden johannstadt #the winter and the lights #before sunrise

Throwback Dec 7, 2014. Most likely on the St. Nicolas Christmas Market that used to happen once every year in Dresden, at least until the pandemic struck. (Initially posted to Facebook. Interesting to browse through the old comments, nine years later, and the profiles that left them. Seems at some point everyone over there turned into a quiet left-open account and public sink for annual birthday wishes but without further activity or interaction.)

#throwback #2014 #christmas_decoration #the_warm_and_the_cold

#christmas decoration #the warm and the cold

Throwback Dec 4, 2014. On the road, Berlin. Lunch break during a business trip. Somewhere near Treptower Park I guess. Poor quality again compared to most of todays cameras and shots; back then again it was more "instant" point-shoot-send. And usually immediately ended up in shorter communications with locals asking or recommending things. This strange kind of interaction was unique to "early" Instagram days and seems missing on virtually any other network ever since.

#throwback #outerworld #berlin #smartphonephotography

Throwback Dec 1, 2012. Stars. Originally posted to Instagram in my early months there, still embracing that idea and possibilities of immediate pictures and permanently carrying a usable camera.

#throwback #smartphonephotography #outerworld #dresden #snow

Throwback Nov 23, 2013. Vintage audio hardware. Maybe already too polished for a steampunk mode, maybe nice from some perspectives and rather difficult to handle from others. Still, an enticing piece of history.

#throwback #outerworld #dresden #smartphonephotography #technische_sammlungen

#technische sammlungen