Posts Tagged ‘red’
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Carl Weese’s Pink Fire Plug inspired me to for today’s posting.
Yesterday I was at a wedding, but those 1200+ images are an intimidating amount even for skulling. It was a rural-style wedding, which had lasted already for 11 hours when I left early, so the number of pictures per hour is not that big as the total would indicate. Expect some images from the public part of the wedding during the next days.
Tags:car, fire plug, red, street, urban-details-and-doorway
Posted in Budapest, Hungary | 3 Comments »
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
A Westend street scenery. I probably can count myself lucky for not having been accused being a stalker, re-using that red parka as a welcome color element.
Tags:münchen, munich, red, reflection, street, westend
Posted in dahoam (at home), urban | No Comments »
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Wordless Thursday today. Excuse and Enjoy.
Tags:Bad Reichenhall, brick wall, diptych, red, saline, shadow, tree
Posted in dahoam (at home) | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
This is one of the personal rewards of photography for me: Standing in exact the same place I had been thousands of time before, commuting from work, and opening the eyes – discovering something new, something that triggers a cell way back in the innards of the brain. Reacting with the camera, quick, as the bus is already at the stop. Reviewing, making thoughtful connections to a topic on the inner todo list. Editing and making an image out of a snapshot. What else is needed but to wait for the print from the lab?
Tags:city, commuting, creative process, facade, munich, plant, red, reflection
Posted in urban | 3 Comments »
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
The rain today even got interspersed with snowflakes, and so it was everything else but springtime feeling. The coffee tables outside took a break, and so I will do.
Tags:Bad Reichenhall, rain, Reber, red
Posted in dahoam (at home), weather | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Being 5 minutes early for the morning bus gave me a small time slice to see and play. Interesting enough the result corresponds quite a bit with Carl Weese’s post “Thumbs up”, which I don’t remember to have actively seen before taking this photograph of mine.
Tags:color, DoF, movement, red, shape, street, traffic
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Couldn’t help it: That Santa Claus head next to a red garter reminded me of Salome’s dance and its tragic consequences…
Tags:lingerie, nikolaus, red, santa claus
Posted in red, urban | No Comments »
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
To avert the impression that my new lens had made me forget how to use a smaller f-stop like 1/5.6 here are three images from a road construction machine. Here I sometimes missed the universality of my zoom, but this restriction of course provoked more flexibility. And I am still asking myself why I didn’t make more use of my 50mm lens, similarly fast. It could be that I am somewhat drawn to the extremes in focal lengths, either really short or much longer than normal. The 50mm I tried for portraits, but this focal length distorts the proportions of the face when you try a tighter framing.
Ok, and an image with wide open f-stop at last – I simply couldn’t help it.
Tags:bokeh, construction, detail, DoF, low DoF, machine, parts, red
Posted in urban | 2 Comments »
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
A lazy day at the lake and not much to photograph until I saw the wind play with the leaves of that japanese maple tree (acer japonica). Here in Europe they are quite popular in the gardens because of that wonderful red of their leaves even in the midst of summer.
The image alone I found not interesting enough, but that development from the static leaves, suddenly showing their bright underside in a gust of wind and heavily shaking when the wind becomes still stronger, that was it for me.
Tags:Acer japonica, leaves, maple, red, tree, wind
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
the exit gate of the forbidden city shone in such a fresh and strong red that it was almost painful in the eyes – and to the sensor, as the histogram showed. a friend later on told me that the preliminaries of the olympic games 2008 had included a real orgy in paint, even in the hutongs, the leftovers of the traditional beijing quarters, where all the roadside walls were painted grey.
of course this was only a make-up and was not connected to substantial improvements. the hutongs were a strong contrast to the splendor of the forbidden city, and a contrast to the modern, multi-story, skyscraper architecture that is the visible result of the olympics boom. the hutongs feature a similar red as the old parts of the forbidden city, but the rest is dreary and grey, except for the more touristic parts.
Tags:forbidden city, hutong, red, sony a700
Posted in beijing | 2 Comments »
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
it seems that the history of the chinese emperor’s regime is in an adapted way now repeating: legions from the working class are doing low paid jobs whilst a small number of highest class are enjoying boundless wealth. The abundant treasures of the forbidden city reminded me immediately of b. brecht’s poem “who built thebes with its seven gates?”.
freezing cold it was in there and soon it became crowded, too. the sheer number of buildings with their rich ornaments and roof decorations was impressing, the rare water bodies in the interior brought welcome opportunity to enjoy outer reflection, too.
the dark red (“ochsenblut” in german) was strong, especially in its continuity through the whole palace region, but astonishing was the fact that a chinese visitor chamaeleon-like was adapting this color.
Tags:beijing, brecht, china, forbidden city, red, reflection, sony a700
Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
