Archive for October 2007

autumn in Wappach

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

autumn in Wappach

Wappach is a really small creek flowing along a district road – nothing spectacular, and so it took me 12 years to find it and explore its photogenic qualities. the picture above is taken maybe 10m away from some private gardens in an almost empty streambed due to the autumnal low water situation.

i started the work with raw therapee and am astonished about the quality of raw conversion and the speed of the program, both a pleasant surprise after the debacle with lightzone. It still is not as feature-rich as lightzone, but in fast development. And not using lightzone any more is finally a matter of pride, too.

maria gern in the evening

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

maria gern in the evening

always good for a postcard-quality picture, the church of maria gern is located on a very powerful place just over the street coming from berchtesgaden. evening is an excellent time to go there as it is almost abandoned then and the noise from the surroundings and the streets has pretty much died down. the mountains in the background – untersberg – are still and proud in their serenity and watch over the place.

sounds to much like a cliche? it just is as it is, maybe you have to experience it to believe.

stone snake at the banks of river saalach

Friday, October 5th, 2007

stone snake at the banks of river saalach

my daughter’s school had an art project at the banks of our river: on saturday morning they created this beautiful stone snake. Andy Goldsworthy was definitely an inspiration for this. his film “rivers and tides” (4 min. clip on youtube) is surely worth to be seen (again).

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Free Burma!

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007


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Everything said.

entrance door detail, maria gern

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

entrance door detail, maria gern

the sun was in the perfect direction and angle to highlight the iron nails and the lock as well as to shed some light on the the cast iron trellis with its golden coating

I had to change my raw converter as lightcrafts decided to drop the linux version of their lightzone raw converter. The really upsetting facet is that they use (legally, of course) a lot of free software in their product but resist to return something to the community. Pretty much the behavior of a leech, isn’t it?


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