… were made for fighting wildland fires, and I wore them while battling the flames in Idaho over 30 years ago.  Now, they serve to protect me while riding the bike.  They’re just boots.  Worn, scarred, dusty, and bearing remnants of fire retardant still … but they are precious to me.

My name is Joerg Thamer and due to technical difficulties I am exactly one week late to the party.  What can I say, about the middle of May I got an  invitation to join Monochromia, thanks Joe for the vote of confidence.  It is both an honor and a pleasure for me to be part of this new photoblog.

I was born and raised in Hessen, Germany a village along the banks of the river Lahn and I still live there to this day.  I have been running around with a camera since I was a little child.  I was in charge of carrying my fathers Leica rangefinder around.  From my early twenties on, I used photography as a tool to capture things I needed for my profession as a illustrator.  Over the years a huge stockpile of photos were raised, mostly Diapos, and about 5 years ago I decided…

Well, it’s one of those weeks when mistakes have been made…that’s allowed, right?  I took my computer in to have additional memory installed because all of my raw files are taking up so much space.  I was so focused on getting “work” done before being without it, that I completely forgot to write my post for this week for Monochromia.  So, desperately not wanting to disappoint, I searched my iPhone photograph library.  Thankfully I had a few images from our trip to Grand Cayman that I had converted to black and white using the photo app.   I selected one and emailed the image above of a Serpent Star Fish to our family laptop and voila, I have a post.

The picture isn’t the greatest quality as it was taken with my phone, but I found this creature to be quite intriguing and the composition was satisfactory.  The Star Fish crawled out of a large Conch…

…and enjoying the view. Wondering what are the stories of the people passing by.