Yesterday was the 11th of November. The beginning of the carnival session. This year on a Saturday. Myriads of visitors had been announced, and when I left home I saw them: thousands of mostly young people, some of them in gorgeous colorful costumes, a lot of them already drunk. I took quite a long walk in the city, but I didn’t sense a lot of joy. As if the colours had been washed out by rush and rain. Stumbling over scattered bottles I went home. Back in my apartment I could hear the fainting sound of drums and the howl  of some drunkards.

All pictures taken with the Fuji X100f / Acros Film-Simulation.

Deutsche Übersetzung unter den Bildern.

Gestern war der 11.11. Der Beginn der Karnevalssession. Dieses Jahr an einem Samstag. Myriaden von Besuchern waren angekündigt worden, und als ich das Haus verließ, sah ich sie auch schon: Tausende meist…