Bautzen, Saxony, Germany, May 2016 --------
Back in May I was over in Germany, first to see my family and friends in Bautzen and Dresden, and second for a trade show in Düsseldorf. Especially during the first half of the trip I shot a lot of pictures in my old stomping grounds. This is always fun to do in cities that are over 800 years old, like Dresden, or even over 1000 years, like my home town Bautzen where these photos were made.
Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis
This building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota drew my attention already last Sunday when I had the first look at it from my hotel window. It is the Hennepin Center for the Arts and was built in 1888 as a Masonic Temple. The building is an exemplary representative of the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture and is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
It wasn’t before early Tuesday morning that the sun had mercy with me and revealed the details of its facade. As so often in these “modern” hotels you can’t open the windows and the glass is tinted. Not a good starting point but I tried it anyway. I finally settled with an exposure compensation of -3EV and went strictly for the highlights. Every detail in the shadows is swallowed but the eye is nailed to the subject, which is of course the sunlit facade of the Masonic Temple.
