Kees' photos with the keyword: Sherry

This lady has a very special relationship to elderly iMacs: she strongly feels the urge to destroy them, yet they strangely fascinate her... Please notice the gesture. Is it a terrorist mouth bump, or just a female affectation? (View the previous picture in my stream...)

We had dinner on the terrace, in the evening chill, because drinking Coca Cola Light wasn’t allowed inside.

I know you can buy plenty postcards of the Linderhof, but hey, you can buy them in Munich too, so they don’t prove you were there. I was very disappointed when my picture of the castle turned out to be unsharp. Autofocus is said to be “intelligent”, nowadays, but don’t you believe it: If there’s really something at stake it fails you, and focuses right on the centre of the image. Nice girl, though! ;-)

A most charming castle, and a favorite of King Ludwig II. I knew I’d have to wait outside with the dog, so I was keen to do the best I could photographing the scenery. This was going to be a superb and daring composition, the picture of a lifetime. Sadly, someone chose to pass by just when the “decisive moment” (Henri Cartier Bresson) was there... The magic was broken! The opportunity lost forever! :-(

Ah, those grateful eyes, when the AlphaSmart veteran masterfully detects the Y-key on his Neo/US... Is it just my male chauvinism, or do they really say: "You're so CLEVER!"? Imagine someone has lived in Germany for a long, long time. No wonder a German keyboard is attached to his trusty iMac, but that doesn't matter to him as he's got used to it. Then, all of a sudden, an American guest appears. She'd like to use his computer to check and answer her e-mails, and that's fine with him (however severe, he's not inhuman). She starts typing, but something seems to be wrong, and she can't Z Y... Thank God, there's an American AlphaSmart Neo in the house, with all the characters in place. It easily connects to the Mac via a USB cable. This did the trick, and surely made her day... ( Picture taken for the AlphaSmart Group on Flickr )

The Isar and Loisach rivers meet in the Icking area. A beautiful sight, and this was going to be the perfect picture ... my MASTERPIECE. Then suddenly someone got in the way. All in vain, all in vain.... Some people seem to be born for bad luck.

Folks, look what I’ve found here between the bottles and glasses on our table... Most of us know the sensation of having a few drinks and then seeing things that aren’t there, such as little pink elephants, but I’ve never seen this (though it seems, in some strange way, familiar). And never before have I managed to record alcohol-induced visions with my camera. Odd, very odd...

Tourists from all over the world come to visit Icking just to take a picture of its famous church... Wouldn’t it be much better if they’d bother to attend a service?