Birgit’s blog

Photowalking in Cochem

Home from a lovely weekend in Germany. On Friday, arriving in the evening, we just checked in to a hotel, had a schnitzel, then walked downtown Cochem to check out the ongoing wine festival. Saturday was spent at the Nürburgring race track, and on Sunday I was on my own photowalking in Cochem. I even have a nice sunburn as proof. My s.o., btw, got slightly lost in the forest surrounding the Ring during his want-to-see-the-race-from-every-angle-mission, and has a neat blister as _his_ proof. I think I prefer the redness any time..! At one point that day, the local accordion group on the town square actually played “The Happy Wanderer”; that was when I - comfortably sitting in the shadow, sipping to a chilled Bitburger - called the lost and bewildered Dag up just to mock. I am nice like that. (For the record: he laughed with me, he’s not really any fun mocking.)

Inbetween photography, motor race spectating and forest exploring, we had a few beers between us, each day a schnitzel dinner “Wiener Art”, and of course a few sips of Mosel wine. Oh, and freshly baked German pretzels, yum!

Looking through my photos, there’s a few things that become embarassingly clear to me - I still don’t have enough courage to take the time to make sure the photos turn out like the images I really “see”, and also: I need to work on creativity and technique alike. I brought a tripod and a speedlight - didn’t use any of them… Especially the photos from the Reichsburg castle would’ve been massively improved had I been bothered to whip out that speedlight. With blending sunlight, a flash is often not what you think of using, but for close-ups especially it’s probably one of the most important accessories. Worst thing is, I was actually good at using fill-in flash ten-twenty years ago when I did film photos… Tsk, tsk.