
A bubble machine in the shape of a teddy bear and a freshly blown bubble in front of a shop specializing in teddy bears at Frankfurt’s central Roemerberg square, Feb.23.
(Canon 5dIII, EF 1.8, 85mm, f 2.2, 1/4000 sec, 640 asa)

A bubble machine in the shape of a teddy bear and a freshly blown bubble in front of a shop specializing in teddy bears at Frankfurt’s central Roemerberg square, Feb.23.
(Canon 5dIII, EF 1.8, 85mm, f 2.2, 1/4000 sec, 640 asa)

A flower stall shortly before closing on an outbound road in the north of Frankfurt, , Feb.5.
(Canon 5dIII, EF 1.4 24mm, f2.2, 1/20, 640 asa)

84-year-old Emma Rossmann stands behind her assortment of garden gnomes in the window of her “Dippemarkt” shop in Frankfurt, Sep.20. For over 40 years she has been selling stoneware, Black Forest clocks (in the background), “Bembels”, the city’s typical mugs with clay handles used for cider, and garden gnomes. By the way, I learned that garden or lawn gnomes as we know them appeared first in Germany in the mid 1800s.

A rubber duck, depicting a Bavarian woman with a beer mug, in a shop window in Frankfurt, July 5.