James Brosher Photography
Portfolio website for James Brosher, a Bloomington, Indiana based editorial and wedding photographer specializing in action, documentary, and portrait images.
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:
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.
This is the first of a few posts getting caught up with my travels. I’ve been in Southern Bavaria this weekend visiting friends and haven’t had a chance to post. Saturday was a very interesting day to be in Munich. One of the city’s soccer teams, target=”_blank”>Bayern München, was playing for a European championship later that night against Inter Milan in Madrid, Spain. Although the game was in Spain, fans traveled to Munich to watch the game at the team’s home stadium and to partake in a bit of pre-game festivities. I have to say it was a sports experience unlike any other to see these fans roaming the streets.
In Salzburg, Austria today, I tried to continue a general theme I established in Munich on Thursday. Instead of photographing the buildings and the sights (the things that are photographed most often by tourists), I tried to look beyond what’s there for a less-often represented feature photo. I did a better job of this in Salzburg than I did in Munich because I spent more time walking around Salzburg. Also, I finally put the Holga to use and shot a couple of rolls including a multiple-exposure collage of sorts with a few of the Salzburg sites. Here’s a few of my shots from today sans the Holga shots:
Today was my first day in Munich. After two pretty smooth flights, I landed here around 8:50 a.m. local time. This was good because it allowed me to have the entire day to do some sightseeing. However, it was bad because I was really tired after not sleeping on our overnight flight from Philadelphia to Munich. It was a very rainy and cold day in Munich, and I didn’t really push myself to see much since I was so tired. Here’s a few features I shot today on my travels:
