Archive for the ‘sky’ Category
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Steingasse, Salzburg
An answer to Martina’s comment on yesterday’s post “It’s the same everywhere in Germany, isn’t it?”: In urban areas, probably yes – even in Austria.
Admittedly I like Bauhaus design very much, so I am somewhat ambivalent especially regarding the architecture in yesterday’s image. In dreary weather it looks depressing for me, whereas today’s Salzburg example with blue skies and blossoms certainly looks more appealing.
Tags:architecture
Posted in Salzburg, sky, urban | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 20th, 2012
![Click to enlarge: Birds [f/5, 1/100 sec, 90mm-e, ISO 250, DMC-G3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/20120203-165532mws-645x645.jpg "Click to enlarge: Birds [f/5, 1/100 sec, 90mm-e, ISO 250, DMC-G3]")
Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria
Tags:blue hour, silhouette
Posted in Bad Reichenhall, dahoam (at home), nature, sky, urban, winter | 3 Comments »
Monday, February 13th, 2012
![Click to enlarge: Moon From The Office Window [f/1.7, 1/15 sec, 40mm-e, ISO 800, DMC-G3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/20120118-071533mws-645x645.jpg "Click to enlarge: Moon From The Office Window [f/1.7, 1/15 sec, 40mm-e, ISO 800, DMC-G3]")
Munich, Bavaria
Thanks to the winter and the so-called daylight saving time – more honestly to be called expenditure enticing time – it is still night when I arrive in the office, and sometimes the moon shows up over the vis-à-vis blocks. Nota bene: The sky was that incredibly blue in spite of my lowering the saturation value.
Tags:moon, night
Posted in blue, Munich, sky, urban | Comments Closed
Friday, November 11th, 2011
![Click to enlarge: Storm Clouds Over A Neat City [f/2.2, 1/15 sec, 5mm-e, ISO 200, DMC-LX3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/p1020256b-645x644.jpg "Click to enlarge: Storm Clouds Over A Neat City [f/2.2, 1/15 sec, 5mm-e, ISO 200, DMC-LX3]")
Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria
Tags:facade, order, square
Posted in dahoam (at home), LX3, sky, urban | 6 Comments »
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
![Click to enlarge: Railroad Lanterns [f/3.2, 1/80 sec, 7mm-e, ISO 100, DMC-LX3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/p1010791b-645x645.jpg "Click to enlarge: Railroad Lanterns [f/3.2, 1/80 sec, 7mm-e, ISO 100, DMC-LX3]")
Freilassing, Bavaria
Tags:blue, evening sky, lantern, pole
Posted in LX3, sky, urban | Comments Closed
Monday, August 8th, 2011
![Click to enlarge: Gas Station, Closed [f/7.1, 1/40 sec, 5mm-e, ISO 100, DMC-LX3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/p1010434b-645x645.jpg "Click to enlarge: Gas Station, Closed [f/7.1, 1/40 sec, 5mm-e, ISO 100, DMC-LX3]")
Freilassing, Bavaria
Different tax rates in Germany and Austria have lead to the closing down of most gas stations in the border towns. And when there is not much movement in the real estate sector, even central parcels remain unused.
Tags:car, decay, paint, rain
Posted in reflection, sky, train delay, urban | Comments Closed
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
![Click to enlarge: Lab Exhausts [f/9, 1/640 sec, 60mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dsc48101-645x362.jpg "Click to enlarge: Lab Exhausts [f/9, 1/640 sec, 60mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]")
University of Salzburg, Austria
Posted in Austria, Salzburg, sky | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
![Click to enlarge: Heads And Clouds [f/9, 1/400 sec, 50mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dsc48059b_1-645x429.jpg "Click to enlarge: Heads And Clouds [f/9, 1/400 sec, 50mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]")
University of Salzburg, Austria
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Monday, August 1st, 2011
![Click to enlarge: Storm Front Above [f/9, 1/800 sec, 40mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dsc48110b-645x429.jpg "Click to enlarge: Storm Front Above [f/9, 1/800 sec, 40mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]")
University of Salzburg, Austria
Same location as where this months’s wallpaper was created, but according to the exif data just three minutes later and a different part of the sky. What looked threatening in fact brought only a small amount of rain.
Tags:building, cloud, monochrome, thunderstorm
Posted in Austria, Salzburg, sky, weather | Comments Closed
Saturday, July 9th, 2011
Jezevac, Krk
In spite of the danger of getting this image labeled as just another “marine painting”, I do enjoy the shades of grey and subtle colors. The bibble5 raw converter is a wonderful tool for me when it comes to carefully nuancing and enhancing without overdoing such color scales. Also the camera, a beaten Sony A700, seems to be good in delivering this kind of tonalities, whereas in the realm of saturated colors at least I am not overly happy with it. But it could be that my non-preference for very vivid images influences my evaluation here.
Tags:bird, islands, layers, sea
Posted in Croatia, Krk, sky, water | 2 Comments »
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Bayerstrasse, Munich
Tags:clouds, facade, reflection
Posted in LX3, sky, urban | Comments Closed
Friday, July 24th, 2009
if you think ‘what a antagonism, yesterday traditional costumes and today such a urban scenery’ then you are right. but life in bavaria can be like this. my hometown with 18.000 inhabitants is just 2 train hours away from munich with its 1.3 millions, of which 30% have a migration background.
and whilst i do enjoy to live in the middle of such opposing lifestyles, it is also true that i belong neither here nor there: in the city miss the smell of the clean countryside air, but there i feel sometimes oppressed by a certain know-it-all and we-don’t-need-all-this attitude. so teleworking and commuting at the moment gives me the best of both worlds.
Tags:life
Posted in commuting, sky | 1 Comment »
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
family holidays in krk mean spending quite some time on the beach, often without the camera. but when i finally took it with me and dug out my 11-18 lens, it was quite nice to make a wide beach scenery out of a nice small spot. guess it should qualify for the mindful eye’s assignment of complimentary colors.
again bibble5′s region feature helped to emphasize the sky in addition to the polarizing filter. if you are not already determined on “your” raw converter, bibble5 is definitely worth more than a try. it is now even faster then the old version was and scales well with multicore cpus.
Tags:mediterranean, polarizer
Posted in blue, Krk, sky | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 2nd, 2009
maybe it’s local patriotism only, but we bavarians are convinced that the sky over bavaria is something special, and so we do have the colors blue and white in our flag. a late winter evening, with the air on the brink of carrying the scent of rich soil, still not able to do so because of the partial snow cover, and with the winds having carried away the smoke and fog, suddenly can add a certain transparency (i lack a better word for this) and the sky develops that rich and warm blue, dotted with some feather like clouds just to make the blue and whites glow even more. and then one can forget for a moment being in a chatting crowd, just savoring these wonderful seconds.
Tags:Dachau, Dachau palace
Posted in sky | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
speaking about time constraints, just imagine the following situation: you leave the house to catch the bus (2 days a week i work away from home in munich), the bus is early and leaves you waiting 10 min at -8°c, which is 18°f and not really comfortable. to make the best out of it you start shooting, notice the moon, notice the lamp post and try to figure out something reasonable, cropping loose, cropping tight and so on. finally you see the next bus approaching, pack away your gear when suddenly the streetlights switch off and the scenery changes. get the camera again, frame the shot hastily now as the bus is almost there, press the shutter and run for the bus, glad to get into the warm interior….
now that really was tight…
Tags:diptychon, moon, streetlight
Posted in sky | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
flying on a project monitoring mission to sri lanka again, woke up at probably 4:00 am local time over the indian ocean and saw this wonderful light.
even after 30 or more long flights from germany to sri lanka i still am fascinated by the quality of light at sunrise, seen from a plane. i still love flying…
Tags:flying, plane, sunrise
Posted in blue, sky | 4 Comments »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
one thing that irritated me throughout all my stays in (sub-)tropical places was the extreme short dusk and dawn periods you experience there. sometimes i had the feeling that sunrise is only a 15 minutes affair, and sunset the same with only a short grace period until night falls in.
so i learned to cherish european twilight times even more, this wonderful transit from a warm, energetic sunlight into fainter illumination where only the clouds still hint to the power of the sun until it becomes darker and first illumination and later on the stars become visible. so i enjoyed the long holiday sunsets, even the more so as they left enough time to properly set up the tripod.
Tags:light, twilight
Posted in Krk, sky | Comments Closed
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
first monday of all months of the adult evening classes semester is a meeting of the local photography group. as it was raining that specific monday the month before, we decided to have another try for an excursion, this time to steinhögl, a 612 m high hill 20 driving minutes from our hometown. we left at overcast sky and rather dull light, but half an hour after our arrival the sun came out again and made us a present with a gorgeous sunset.
i was happy to have my new bought cokin nd grad filter with me as these contrasts make exposure difficult enough even without the nd grad. maybe a reverse nd grad would have been even better, but i found only one seller who is asking ‘snake oil’ (quote d. kilpatrick) prices. so the lightzone regions came in handy to extract that colorful clouds in the sky and create an image as i remember it, quite different from the raw file you see here.
Tags:cokin, nd grad, Steinhögl, sunset
Posted in sky | 3 Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
yesterday was commuting day. spring in the city is so different and, at least for me, partially depressing when the songs of the birds mingle with the traffic noise. but optically it has it’s merits, translating trees into patterns, creating trompe l’oeil like bird silhouettes, bending straight lines, mixing coating colors of the glass with the most wonderful blue of the sky (bavaria, you may know, is very proud of its skies)
and ‘stary, stary night’ is seen differently here in the city too. not inspiring in the romantic sense, but more so in the business, prestige, non-sustainability sense.
unfortunately. especially for my kids.
Tags:noise, rant, silhouettes
Posted in reflection, sky | 3 Comments »
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
this was the last remembrance of summer we got this autumn. the light was in an astonishing way similar to springtime, coming through an already thin roof of leaves high above us. it’s not very often that i dare to include the sun in a picture i take with my 11-18 mm zoom, as this lens is quite prone to flares. but here it worked out very nicely.
Tags:Marxenhöhe, path
Posted in sky, woods | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
This is no b&w picture… The evening light was incredibly soft, showing only faint layers of the mountains in the slight fog. In the lower right corner you see Fraueninsel with the clocktower of the monastery’s church. Taken from a public transport boat to Chieming on the east coast of Chiemsee.
The original contrast range was around 3 f-stops. I used lightzone for linux to restore the original impression of the situation.
Tags:chiemsee, evening sky, fraueninsel
Posted in sky | 2 Comments »
![Click to enlarge: Birds [f/5, 1/100 sec, 90mm-e, ISO 250, DMC-G3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/20120203-165532mws.jpg "Click to enlarge: Birds [f/5, 1/100 sec, 90mm-e, ISO 250, DMC-G3]")
![Click to enlarge: Moon From The Office Window [f/1.7, 1/15 sec, 40mm-e, ISO 800, DMC-G3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/20120118-071533mws.jpg "Click to enlarge: Moon From The Office Window [f/1.7, 1/15 sec, 40mm-e, ISO 800, DMC-G3]")
![Click to enlarge: Storm Clouds Over A Neat City [f/2.2, 1/15 sec, 5mm-e, ISO 200, DMC-LX3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/p1020256b.jpg "Click to enlarge: Storm Clouds Over A Neat City [f/2.2, 1/15 sec, 5mm-e, ISO 200, DMC-LX3]")
![Click to enlarge: Railroad Lanterns [f/3.2, 1/80 sec, 7mm-e, ISO 100, DMC-LX3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/p1010791b.jpg "Click to enlarge: Railroad Lanterns [f/3.2, 1/80 sec, 7mm-e, ISO 100, DMC-LX3]")
![Click to enlarge: Gas Station, Closed [f/7.1, 1/40 sec, 5mm-e, ISO 100, DMC-LX3]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/p1010434b.jpg "Click to enlarge: Gas Station, Closed [f/7.1, 1/40 sec, 5mm-e, ISO 100, DMC-LX3]")
![Click to enlarge: Lab Exhausts [f/9, 1/640 sec, 60mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dsc48101.jpg "Click to enlarge: Lab Exhausts [f/9, 1/640 sec, 60mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]")
![Click to enlarge: Heads And Clouds [f/9, 1/400 sec, 50mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dsc48059b_1.jpg "Click to enlarge: Heads And Clouds [f/9, 1/400 sec, 50mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]")
![Click to enlarge: Storm Front Above [f/9, 1/800 sec, 40mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]](http://markus-spring.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dsc48110b.jpg "Click to enlarge: Storm Front Above [f/9, 1/800 sec, 40mm-e, ISO 200, Sony A700]")
