Kees' photos with the keyword: haus nr. 8

Not the first time I took a picture of this door. This one is better, though...

Under our roof...

Again: The kind of detail Darwin Bell likes to shoot. I don’t know if he’d like it as much if it was a detail of his own house, but I do.

Immer ein dankbares Objekt. Und wieviele Gebäude gibt es noch in Icking, die älter sind?

Gesternabend. Es scheint jemand zuhause zu sein. Nur eines ist sicher: ich bin es nicht... Yesterday evening. At least someone seems to be home. Just one thing’s for sure: it’s not me...

Thousands of footsteps, most of them from our dog Robbie (who wants to go outside in spite of the cold and snow), some doubtlessly from other animals whose trails need to be followed.

Altes Photo aus eigener Sammlung (aus 1955, nach handschriftlcher Datierung)

Teil vom Beitrag Spaziergänge durch Icking: die Ortsdurchfahrt. Part of the thread Spaziergänge durch Icking: die Ortsdurchfahrt.

The back door of our house is much nicer than the front door. It really hurts that it’s the doctor’s...

This one is too dark, and it lacks detail in the dark parts. But I like it: the sky is beautiful, and I wouldn’t like the details I would have seen... I must have a polaroid filter some day (B+W 67mm Käsemann –always go for the best)...

Every now and then someone comes and tries to sell you a photo he took from high up above. As usual, the scan wasn’t very good, so I processed it through PhotoArtist Express. It now definitely has become a work of art. In the background is a hotel called “Alpenblick”, built in the fifties. It saved our lives during the period we had a house with no kitchen. Perhaps we prolonged its life, too: we have a kitchen, now, and the hotel has closed down.

I hope this picture will, at least partially, satisfy Oldwoodchuck’s wish for a more recent picture of our house. I don’t know who those people standing in our garden are... Are they stealing apples? If I had shot this picture myself I would have called the police first! Scan of a picture taken by my brother.

Our house in the 50ies: the big changes were yet to come... However, the road had been broadened and the long stairs leading to it had to make a corner. In the 60ies the concrete wall on the left was extended to the right: the house kept its address but lost its entrance on this side. This makes us hard to find; deliveries are often guided by phone calls...

So sah unser Haus vor siebzig, achtzig Jahren aus; seitdem hat es sich sehr gewandelt –nicht immer zum Besseren... This is what our house looked like seventy, eighty years ago; it has changed a lot since then -not always for the better...