Cologne Carnival: Uwe, Knut and Bernd

This photograph was taken on Rosenmontag, the day before Shrove Tuesday, also the day of the great Karneval procession. The town-dwellers have been dressing up and getting drunk for days or even weeks.

Knut and Bernd were the delightful sons of the equally delightul Cologne couple with whom I was staying. However, I have no memory at all of Uwe (on the left). All that I can add is that he is wearing a German army issue cape and hat; he looks too young to have been called up for army service, so I suspect that these garments were Knut's.

We must have been near the town's centre, as its massive Cathedral is visible in the background.


PHOTOGRAPHIC INFO:
Camera: Minolta M1 (35mm film)
Kodachrome slide: 1/60th sec, f/11
The film speed would have been either 25 or 64 ASA/ISO.

[this blip created in April 2014]