My World: "I do not want a world where there are no crowds."

[Jerome Marot]

Oktoberfest is a 16–18 day festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, running from late September to the first weekend in October. It is one of the most famous events in Germany and known as the Largest Volksfest (People's Fair) in the World. In 2010 there were six and a half million visitors to the 31 hectare fair grounds on the Theresienwiese. There are 12000 people working on the fair, of which 1600 serve beer. In average, 60000 hectoliter of beer and 500000 roasted chicken (Brathendl) are sold every year. (Wikipedia)

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C&C welcome.

 

[Jerome Marot]

And of course the beer:

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More to come.

C&C welcome.

 

[Jerome Marot]

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[Asher Kelman]

Life, teeming iife!

Note how it's vibrant and energetic without color! B&W works very well in these situations removing the distractions of color and allowng the eye to sweep the pictures for the movements and gestures!

Excellent series!

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Excellent Jerome. I can experience the mirth, the laughter. I was there 2 years ago. I know what
it means to drink diet pepsi!!

I particularly like the last of this series. Up and Down we go. That is life.

" I do not want a world where there are no crowds " A smart man that. To appreciate all that there is in Life, one does indeed need to go into the crowds. When there is still the opportunity.

Well done.

 

[Jerome Marot]

Thank you for your comments. The sentence "I do not want a world where there are no crowds." is yours, Mohammed.


There is more in the series.

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[Jerome Marot]

More crowds.

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[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Jerome,

And of course the beer:

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There is a wonderful, crisp "1950s documentary" feel to that one. I think is is the one best served by the B&W rendition.

I'm not much on beer myself, but I could sure go for a plate of käsespätzle right now!

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Rajan Parrikar]

Marvellous series, Jerome,

 

[Jerome Marot]

Thank you both for the nice comments. I had not thought about this "1950" look, but probably the place has not changed much since the 1950, so...


Another picture for the night:

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[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Jerome,

Thank you both for the nice comments. I had not thought about this "1950" look, but probably the place has not changed much since the 1950, so...

Actually, my comment was only partly on the setting, but also on the photographic style as well (although I'm afraid I can't really articulate its properties).

By the way, we are looking into making some Käsespätzle here. I used to make Spätzle years ago. My late first wife was of partly Hungarian extraction, and her grandmother made it (although I think she called it by the Hungarian name, which I think might have been nokedli).

I made it in the traditional way, scraping the dough off the edge of a wooden board (Spätzlebrett) with a chef's knife into the boiling water.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Jerome Marot]

Spätzle are officially from Schwaben, not from Bavaria and I am afraid and can't really help you with the recipe...

About the 1950s photographic style, maybe the rather clean post-processing and the tonal range obtained with an orange filter is part of the reason?

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[Paul Abbott]

Jerome, have you considered on looking for any unusual/ unfortunate behaviour, juxtapositions, contrasts and 'happenstance' opportunities for shooting people? You certainly are in the right place for this type of thing to happen.

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Jermoe,

Spätzle are officially from Schwaben, not from Bavaria and I am afraid and can't really help you with the recipe...

I've found some recipes and we may give it a go.

About the 1950s photographic style, maybe the rather clean post-processing and the tonal range obtained with an orange filter is part of the reason?

That may very well be it.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Jerome Marot]

Jerome, have you considered on looking for any unusual/ unfortunate behaviour, juxtapositions, contrasts and 'happenstance' opportunities for shooting people? You certainly are in the right place for this type of thing to happen.

Well...

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[Asher Kelman]

Jerome,

I like the series.

Thanks for sharing.

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

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Enjoyable event!

 

[Jerome Marot]

Enjoyable indeed...

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(at least, this young lady seems to enjoy herself)

 

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In this world, there are crowds.

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C&C Welcome.

 

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[Paul Abbott]

Jerome, thanks for posting these images.
I like the images with those billboard eyes in it and the guy with the camera obscuring/ supplanting his face.
In regard to the rest of the images with the crowds and carnival machinery in, a wider lens was needed IMO.

Jus' my two pfennigs...

 

[Jerome Marot]

Jerome, thanks for posting these images.

You are welcome.

I like the images with those billboard eyes in it and the guy with the camera obscuring/ supplanting his face.

Thank you.

In regard to the rest of the images with the crowds and carnival machinery in, a wider lens was needed IMO.

For this particular camera, I only had a fixed 40mm equivalent lens at the time. No zoom.

Jus' my two pfennigs...

Actually, today with the €uro, Germany has cents too.

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[Paul Abbott]

You used a 40mm? I take it that's bolted onto a full frame camera, no? Otherwise, it's more close to a 60mm, no?

I like prime lenses, I have a 21mm (32mm in 35mm terms) firmly bolted onto my K20D. Every image i've taken since early 2010 has been shot with this.

No more german heroes portrayed on your currency now then eh, Jerome?!

 

[Jerome Marot]

You used a 40mm? I take it that's bolted onto a full frame camera, no? Otherwise, it's more close to a 60mm, no?

I said 40mm equivalent. That lens is a Panasonic 20mm, mounted on an Olympus EP-1.

P9200137 by jerome_Munich, on Flickr​

No more german heroes portrayed on your currency now then eh, Jerome?!

I live in Germany, but I am French. The only hero I regret is Karl Friedrich Gauss, which was printed on the 10 DM banknote. There was no hero on the pfennig coins. The only coin with a hero was the 2 DM coin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mark

Actually, from this link: http://www.bundesbank.de/bargeld/bargeld_faq_dmbanknotenabbildungen.en.php
"german heroes" were only used for the last series of DM banknotes. The previous series used simple numbers or classical paintings.

 

[Jerome Marot]

Sometimes, a wider angle would have indeed allowed me to include more of the machinery in the frame. But would the images have been better?

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