SCHLOSS ELMAU – We hiked today, around 12 miles round trip from here to the Ferchensee, where there is an old fashioned Bavarian inn that served us freshly caught trout for lunch. Images from the trail – color with my Leica M and 24mm Summilux lens and black and white with my Leica Monochrom and Luxochron lens.
On this day one year ago: tall grass.
NEAR GARMISCH GERMANY – We arrived at Schloss Elmau, here in the foothills of the Tyrollean Alps, after an overnight flight from New York to Frankfurt, a rushed transfer to a flight to Munich and a two hour van ride. Lovely site. We arrived in time for sunset, taken with my Leica Monochrom and Luxochron lens. The snow is the aftermath of a freak early storm from two days ago.
On this day last year: Lexington Avenue in good light.
VÖLS AM SCHLERN ITALY – That’s right, the name of this Italian town has an umlaut. 94% of the population here speaks German as their first language. This is the starting point of our week-long trek in the Dolomites, the name of the major alpine range in Alte Adige area of Italy. The Dolomites are named after the white calcium magnesium carbonate stone that is characteristic of the peaks in this region. Dolomite stone takes it’s name from Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, a Frenchman who described the stone in the late 18th Century. We got here after a very long day of travel by air and train, and finally a local taxi from Bolzano, which is a close as you can get by rail. We arrived just in time for a sunset over the town. Taken with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron Asph. lens.
On this day one year ago: Deruta.
