
Two friends lean against each other on the banks of river Main in Frankfurt on a bright, warm and sunny day, March 9.

Two friends lean against each other on the banks of river Main in Frankfurt on a bright, warm and sunny day, March 9.

Mirianne Uffenbrink holds a makeshift gallows with a hanged stork during a protest by widwives and many mothers and families on International Women’s Day in Frankfurt, March 8. Midwives, still being a regular feature of childbirth in Germany, are facing unacceptably high liability insurance premiums and low wages. Many were already driven out of the baby-delivering business.

A bee in search for pollen among crocuses at Frankfurt’s Palmengarten park, March 7.
(Canon 5dIII, Ef 2.8, 15mm, 1/1000 sec, f22, ISO160)

A cat sleeps in a a small tailor’s workshop while apprentice Sofia Peschka works at the sewing machine in Hammelburg, northern Bavaria, March 5. The shop specializes in individual made-to-measure clothing for women.

A bee flies past blossoms of an ornamental cherry and the sun, downtown Frankfurt, March 4.
(Canon 5dIII, EF 2.0 135mm (one of my favourite lenses, by the way), 1/8000 sec, f 5.0, ISO100)