Posts Tagged ‘autumn’
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
The various groups of birches, just at the border of the tarn and interspersed into the pines in the elevated areas form excellent graphical elements with their white bark. The morning hours were not really cold, especially not for november, but this year we have the warmest november since 35 years.
Oh, but don’t care – our elected and not so elected leaders won’t bother when meeting in Kopenhagen (at least most of them). The most important thing is this generation’s prosperity – which is only relative when 1/6th of the world’s most affluent state had to live in ‘food uncertainty’ in 2007.
Song of the day? ‘Oh what a wonderful world’. What else.
Update: try to see the pictures at least in 1024px height by clicking on them – the downscaling to the posted size lets vanish quite some details.
Tags:autumn, bavaria, Berchtesgadener Land, birch, bog, climate, food uncertainty, hunger, politics, Schönram, swamp
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
The Stihl sound is quite different from the steel guitar sound, despite of similar sounds of the words. The first one is giving these days an almoust continous concerto. It’s end is not yet foreseeable as the trees still have good stock of leaves to distribute.
Oh, and if you wont to see wonderful portrait of a single leaf, hurry to head over to the Capture this blog of Laurie Jackson. Definitely worth a look!
Tags:autumn, blower, flying, leaf, leaves, stihl
Posted in autumn, dahoam (at home) | 6 Comments »
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
After a long dry period now autumn rain calls the shots. Here in Bad Reichenhall lmost all fountains are switched off and covered by now, with the ones in the spa gardens as lonely exception. But the water doesn’t spray in the fountain any more, instead cold raindrops make strolling a different experience.
The gold of the maple leaves slowly starts to fade, and sometimes it seems as if this cold and this humidity, that reinforces the felt coldness, also affects the passers-by – head between shoulders, viewing straight ahead now everybody tries to minimize the time she spends outside of buildings. Winter doesn’t seem to be far anymore.
Tags:autumn, cold, fall, fountain, leaf, rain
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Maybe I am overdoing it with my faible for low DoF, but then I find the autumn leaves in that context really wonderful – beauty not in a grain of sand but in a single leaf, alone or against just the idea of a background, blurred to an extend where the colors only signal the wonders of an autumnal forest.
Tags:autumn, bokeh, fall, leaf, leaves, low DoF
Posted in bokeh, nature | 2 Comments »
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Sometimes an image can beam us decades back, right into the time when we were listening with red eyes to the fairy tales.
Tags:Abend, autumn, evening, forest, Herbst, Little red riding hood, Rotkäppchen, Wald
Posted in dahoam (at home), nature | 8 Comments »
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
After days I spent mainly in the flat, I needed a walk. Today’s dying light gave a wonderful backdrop for the dried flowers and shrubs along a small logging road.
Tags:autumn, Blüten, Braun, brown, Efflorescence, Forststraße, Grossgmain, Herbst, Lägerfluren
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
A lively beer garden this place was, only a week ago, as we had the warmest october since the beginning of the weather records (climate change? or chance?). Now it’s a more melancholic view with the empty tables and the grey clouds touching the peaks already. In only four weeks, up there will be snow.
Addendum: For whatever reason, the picture embedded in the blog came out darker than the uploaded version. The latter you get as always in a lightbox when you click on the image.
Tags:autumn, Bad Reichenhall, bavaria, bayern, beer garden, Berchtesgadener Land, Biergarten, grey, Oktober, rain, Saalachsee, weather, wetter
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
“Those who god loves, he lets fall into this country” – a free translation of one of our great regional writers, Ludwig Ganghofer. Probably a bit declamatory, but on the other hand – the early fall days here in Klausbachtal don’t make it difficult to believe that this sentence is true.
Tags:autumn, Baum, Berchtesgaden, Berg, fall, Fels, Herbst, Klausbachtal, mountain, national park, Nationalpark, Natur, nature, pasture, rock, tree, Weide, Wiese
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Nice new blog, isnt’t it? I got several thumbs-up comments and was happy – sleek new design, not too distracting and all. But – those comments came from those who could comment. And with ‘could’ I don’t want to hint to their ability to write, but to the sheer technical possibility to get their comment posted. Those who couldn’t comment were very well knowledgable and able to click the submit button – alas, that fine fusion theme does not play nicely with older browsers like firefox 2.0 or internet explorer 6. If there would be only some optical quirks or marginal display deviations, I would not care too much because browsers do have their own idea what is correct, and sometimes they don’t, but in this case probably the jquery javascript library had its issues with the way it was used here. And in the end this blog is about photographic content, not web 2.0 javascript gimmicks without real value. Locking out users because of the version of the browser deems me to be outright stupid.
Thanks to Carl Weese from Working Pictures and also WPII Pictures in Public and also Oren Grad from Things seen I was able to track things down. After some testing I decided to go with a new theme, which needs of course some modding to make it fit for my needs, so don’t be surprised if the look of the pages undergoes some further changes. But for a while, I think I will use the ‘minimalism’ theme. Keep it simple, stupid!
Tags:autumn, blog, browser, compatibility, design, flower, theme
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