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Key ring holder, Mantua, Italy. As I am currently away from home : the picture has been finished in Picasa, I'll load the optimised version to Flickr later.

Owls to Athens

I have known this man since about 1998. He sits in front of what was once Macdonalds on the Kudamm in Berlin. I only give him money, no one else. We always have a little talk about the weather and how he is doing. He is always very cheerful and upbeat about everything. We use the "Sie" form which is the formal polite way of addressing someone. I asked him a couple of years ago if I could take a picture of him for my "Beyond the Pale" series. He agreed but it was only this week that I happened to have a camera with me. He lives under a tarpaulin in the woods near Wannsee. I do not know his name.

Nordic Embassies, crossroads Hofjaegeralle, Tiergartenstrasse, Klingelhoefferstrasse and Stuelerstrasse. View west into Stuelerstrasse, Berlin, Germany

Akropolis Restaurant at the crossroads of Askanische Strasse and Amalienstrasse, Dessau, Germany