New workshops in Spain!

We are proud to announce you the next photo workshops in collaboration with our partner Obra Social de Caja Ávila: you can register for two portrait workshops in Bohoyo (23/24-03) and in La Lastra del Cano (28/29-03), province of Ávila, Spain. For more information on duration, topics, program and accomodation: mail@florianbachmeier.com. And we also offer a second edition of our landscape photography workshop in La Lastra del Cano (01/02-03)!

Franz Gsellmann´s World Machine

Check out some pictures of Franz Gsellmanns World Machine in Knaab, a little village in Styria, Austria, published in the new issue of Alps Magazin. Franz Gsellmann was inspired by a photograph of the Atomium of the Universal Exhibition of 1958 in Brussels published in the local press and the next day he travelled to Belgium. Back at home he started to build the "world machine", collecting all kind of pieces, household items, toys, statues of saints, different kind of engines and so on... Now, more than 30 years after his death in 1981, his grandson, Franz Gsellmann Jr., is maintaining the machine, searching for spare parts all over the world: http://www.alps-magazine.com http://www.weltmaschine.at

Carla von Branca in Tegernseer Stimme

Article on Carla von Branca in Tegernseer Stimme: http://www.tegernseerstimme.de/der-sinn-des-lebens/68008.html:

Rauris, again...

I am already looking forward to december 2013: we are preparing a really interesting publication on ancient christmas traditions in the alpine valley of Rauris, Austria. Yesterday I finished with the pictures for the essay documenting the "Schnabelperchten" haunting the village...

Abacus Brotherhood in Alps Magazine

A little photo essay on the Abacus Brotherhood in Puch, Styria, text by Dr. Claudia Teibler. The brotherhood is a local group of apple farmers and distillers who joined in a companionship with a rigide codex of rules. Their goal is simply to produce the best apple spirit worldwide. Published in the winter issue of Alps Magazine, http://www.alps-magazine.com/.

Swabian Christmas cookies

Check out the new issue of "Servus in Stadt und Land Bayern" (12/2012, www.servusmagazin.de), Mrs. Breumairs homemade cookies and biscuits are really delicious! And if you want to buy some: look around or ask in Affing, a little village near Augsburg, she sells her traditional collection of Christmas sweets in her farmshop...

Vienna and Melk...

It´s been a long time since I posted something on this blog. Yesterday I came back from a kind of research trip to Vienna and some other places in Upper Austria, including visits to the headquarters of the UN organisations, to Kaisermühlen (public housing areas, built in the Twenties and Thirties of the 20th century in Vienna) and to some villages by the Danube near the city of Melk. This has to be reason enough to show some photographs from the last five days...