manila sunsets

the ’sunset-season’ has just started, manila is famous for that. now you know why…

typhoon season

maybe you have seen it in the news, we had here in the philippines within the last month of october 4 typhoons with incredible damage and loss of lives. most of the by the floods affected people still have to live in knee-deep water. illnesses are spreading. a lot of the rice fields were destroyed, what means a major problem for the economy. more rice has to be imported, prices will hike again, poverty increase. if this is what everybody calls climate change, then I am afraid we are in for a ride in the future. and it won’t be a fun-ride.

october variety

fall at home

that means, back home in southern germany -

all photos were done september 2006 around ulm/donau

fall in japan

black+white

sunsets

navotas philippines

this post is dedicated to the people living in NAVOTAS, a small squatter colony north of metro-manila close to the manila bay. these people are as poor as you can be, but they seem to be happy within all their misery. and they are the nicest people…

manila storm season

china