Showing posts with label street scene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street scene. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

A Vacation in Hamburg 12






 

Well, I haven't been posting anything for a while, and my only excuse is sheer laziness.  I just haven't felt like it.  So, now that I'm back, I thought it was time to put up the final five photographs from the Hamburg Vacation Collection.  (Go to labels and click on that to see the lot.  There's no rhyme or reason to the order, so start anywhere.)  To recap, if I were to give an honest name to this blog, it would be The Newly Purchased Photography.  Almost all of the photos I put up have been bought in antique stores, thrift stores, or online.  Once in a while, however, I actually do find old photos, and this collection is an example of that.  I was walking along the street, and there it was.  Color snapshots taken in Hamburg, Germany blowing around, and envelopes of old negatives.  I thought about digging out the light box and matching up the prints to the negs, but I was worried that, on my limited income, I'd end up spending money on having prints made from any negatives that I couldn't match to a photo, so I didn't.      

Sunday, November 9, 2025

A Vacation in Hamburg 10






 

I sometimes wonder about my fascination with other people's photographs.  I kind of get the really old stuff, but these street snaps from Hamburg, Germany are from 1989.  Hardly antique scenes.  Anyway, more true found photography.  From a street in Los Angeles.  Click on Hamburg Vacation Collection in labels to see the rest of the photos from this lot and get some more info on them.  The photographer seems to be interested in the Beer Dorf, or Beer Village, in English.  Right next to a Chinese restaurant

Thursday, March 20, 2025

A Vacation In Hamburg 7






 

More German street scenes, and another of those weird German living room shots.  The living room photo has a date written on the back, "9 July 1989."  Click on Hamburg Vacation Collection in labels to see more. 

Friday, June 21, 2024

The Shadow Soldier


  

This is another of those throw-in photos that I end up with when I buy an envelope of photos and get a few that I'd never buy individually.  Anyway, as a former professional black & white printer it interests me a bit.  There's clearly detail in the subject's uniform and face, but whoever printed this didn't expose for what's really important.