I’m usually not a huge fan of museums. That was until today. We visited the BMW Museum, which was especially interesting because of the priceless collection it houses and also because of the architecture of the museum itself. It was one of the coolest buildings I’ve been in. Normally I stray away from museum shots, but I made a few pictures at the BMW Museum playing off of their interesting lighting setups:
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The streets of Munich
Munich’s Olympic Stadium
Schwangau, Germany
Schwangau is one of my favorite places on earth. That’s why I relapsed into tourist mode a bit taking several landscape shots of the village’s castles situated in the middle of the Alps. Usually my rule of thumb on this trip has been to not photograph any buildings unless they are on fire, but I made an exception here:
Dachau Concentration Camp
Saturday was a pretty heavy day as we visited the Dachau Concentration Camp near Munich. I’ve been there before in 2006 when I was in high school, but my parents wanted to visit the site for themselves this time around. I decided black and white were right for these photos because the subject material is very serious, and the camp itself is very monotone in color. I’m the type of person who only uses black and white to help convey respect for the subject and to give a tone of seriousness to the story. I’ve got several shots of shadows or silhouettes of people, which I intentionally did in order to try to match the ghostly vibe I felt walking through the infamous site.