A few nice work and travel germany images I found:

AWACS 2


Image by backseatpilot
I started working on the NATO AWACS about nine months ago, and this was the first time I had seen one up close. We flew one later in the week, but unfortunately cameras weren't allowed on the airplane or the base. This comes from a small observation area outside the base perimeter fence.

One trap that I often fall into is the almost compulsive need to fit the entirety of a subject into a frame. It's often not the best way to shoot a subject, especially because it tends to leave a lot of empty space around the subject. Using a longer lens (here a 100mm) forces me to leave some of the subject out of the shot, and in this case it works well - getting the full wingspan of the aircraft in the frame would have shrunk the plane significantly compared to the full frame of the shot, and you'd be seeing a lot more pavement and grass.

I spent about two hours with no jacket out in the cold waiting for these planes to take off because I couldn't let myself leave without getting some shots of the very thing I was there to work on. After a trip last year where I missed a wonderful shot during some environmental testing, I learned my lesson - the camera will always come with me, and I'll bring it to any job site that I'm allowed.

Geilenkirchen, Germany

Craig working out where our 'room' on the train was


Image by ohsarahrose

Another Damn Picture


Image by chazlarson
One unusual retail strategy we saw several places in Germany is this pattern of organizing goods by color. I'll give you that is this situation it works. We first notcied, it. however, at a children's clothing store, where the clothing racks were arranged not by size, but by color. All the red clothes were in one place, all the blue in another. Quite odd.