We present a report about our participation in the ImageCLEF photo task 2006 and a short  description  of  our  new  framework  for  future  use  in  further  CLEF  participations.  We described and analysed our participation in the monolingual English task. Special Lucenealigned query expansion and histogram comparisons are helping to improve the baseline results. ACM Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.1  Content Analysis and Indexing, H.3.3  Information Search and Retrieval, H.3.4  Systems and Software Keywords image retrieval, crosslanguage information retrieval, query expansion