The Rat's View

A Rat's View of the Chrysler Building

If I were a pop musician "A Rat's View of the Chrysler Building" would be my biggest hit. Almost always when someone talks to me about my photography this picture becomes a topic. I decided to make a new version. However, this new version doesn't show a New York City landmark. Instead, it shows the biggest landmark of my little hometown in Germany:

A Rat's View of the Limburg Cathedral

My hometown has a very old yet well maintained old part with "a full set of nearly unscathed mediaeval buildings".

Featured on FlattrChattr.com

I have the honor to be featured and interviewed on FlattrChattr. If you are not yet familiar with Flattr, it is known as a social micro payment system. Yes, this is about real money. Every time a Flattr user clicks on one of my Flattr-buttons, I get a little bit of money. Great, huh? To receive money however, you have to pay in something, too. Last month I got 30 clicks which translated to 30 Euros. My biggest Flattr revenue so far was in August 2010, when I received €135,65 (about $190). All together there are now 323 Euros waiting to be picked up. This is how much I received since I joined last year. Thank you all for Flattring my work! The article is right here.

Take out

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New York City last December. It's March now and apparently it's still snowing there occasionally.

Snow Taxi

I added this picture to the store. You are invited to come over and get a copy. [link]

Now on iTunes

I just opened up with New York City section in the store and added this as the first picture.I took it on one of the Christmas holidays shortly before the blizzard hit the city. In case you're wondering why the Beatles haven't been in on iTunes earlier, I believe to know the reason :-DI remember that Beatles originally published their music under their own label named Apple Records. The computer company with the same name had a fight with this record label, and from what I once heard in the radio, they agreed that Apple Computers may keep the name as long as they won't enter the music business. This changed when Apple came up with the iPod and iTunes. I guess some major struggle went on until the Beatles who were originally released under Apple Records made it into the stores of Apple. In fact, I remember those old Beatles records. They had an apple on the center of the cover as well as the center of the LPs. On the cover you saw the apple from the outside, on the LP itself you saw the inside of the apple like it was sliced in half. I used to play those records from time to time when I was very little and always found that apple stuff very original.

Snow Storm Street Scene II

I took this one in a Brooklyn neighborhood called DUMBO - which stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.

Snow Storm Street Scene

Because of popular demand, I'll keep posting snow storm pictures from New York, but what I actually wanted to do is wishing you a good start into 2011! Anybody has cool and inspiring resolutions? I don't have one. I just returned back home to Germany after almost eight years in the states. I guess that's change enough. Any resolution would be pretty redundant at this point.

It's really cool to be at home. I'm taking it slow. My hometown is somewhat slow paced anyway, and also pretty much snowed in. I'm spending New Year's at home with my grandpa who is now 93 years old. Even at this age, he is still the one fixing and repairing all kinds of things around the house. My family is pretty (re)productive, so he happens to also have a couple more grand children, five grand-grand-sons, two grand-grand-daughters, as well as a grand-grand-grand-daughter and a grand-grand-grand-son. Some of these newer family members barely know me as I obviously haven't been around much. They probably just see me as this weird uncle from America :)

Anyway, wishing you a great start into 2011!!!