Steep shadows under the wires and ACs provide a nic(h)e playground for the viewer. Not that I am particularly fond of this decoration of a medieval town, but then: this is life, and optically interesting.
The only activity I was able to perform to day was a bit of resting in the shadow, reading a book. So this is a hat shot, summarizing this hot summer day.
And this is one of the rare occasions I use shoot/shot in context with photography – for me it’s a much too belligerent term to be used in the context of photography, especially the ‘head shot’. Only this time I didn’t want to pass on the pun. Of course having been socialised in a continent that bans all kind of arms from private property (sport and hunting being the only exemptions) has formed my mindset. That a google search for +”head shot” +photo results in more than 500.000 hits shows however that my position in this regard is clearly the one of a minority.
Gellert hill, Budapest
The wallpapers for July are ready for download on the wallpapers page. This month’s image is from the Kapuzinerberg in Salzburg, where I spent a fruitful evening with friends from the local photography group (not camera club). More images from this event are in the pipeline. Enjoy.
I am taking my holidays seriously: Instead of sweating for Sofbomo, I just see what comes along. Serious work has to wait a bit, it doesn’t really comply with family holidays anyway.
Taking up the postings of Carl Weese and Tyler Monson earlier that day.
The weather is as it has to be expected in April: Rapidly changing from really hot in the sun to rainfall, and in the morning the rain can even be mixed with snowflakes. The early blossoms have to face all this, and the beautiful Forsythia will probably wither soon and change their proud yellow against a dying brown.
Mornings can be hard; The unread paper in one hand, the camera in the other, eyes still tired, brain slow – the night was just too short. Only 1 minute left until the train leaves. Fumblin’ with numb fingers at the f-stop dial, knowing that some DoF is needed. 06:06 – just getting two shots.
They turned out to be the best of the day, a long working day. In the end well worth having carried the gear on the commuting trip to Munich. Didn’t touch the saturation slider, I swear.
travelling home last week I was really p***ed: again the fast train from munich was late and the connecting train was gone when we arrived. such is the service of the deutsche bahn. my bad mood prevailed for quite some time, proportional to the non-facilities of the province railway station that freilassing is. it was late, a thunderstorm was coming and i had to carry some things so the hands were not free for the camera.
after a while my better side prevailed and i managed to get some shots of the trains in the upcoming storm as well as the fellow victims in this inhospitable location.
and when that guy on the next platform started his wheelies in the dry zone under the roof, just stopping before he got out into the rain, i was fascinated enough to forget about my anger and switch my camera to those fine iso 6400, not fast enough to stop his motion but sufficient for panning.
another take on minimalism and a fond remembrance of the holidays. here in bavaria the mornings are already cold with 12° C, but there are good chances for a nice indian summer. the good habit of getting up early and do some photography i have kept alive, but in the moment the ‘creative juices’ are not flowing that well. but there is sufficient work on the raw files left, and sometimes the one or other image with potential turns up.
one of the rare occasions i did more to a picture than dodgin/burning/sharpening aka. their equivalents in lightzone. the red light on top of the antenna mast was there, but not as prominent as it is now. in the the evening light and so much out-of-focus, it is a mere glow in the raw file. lightzone’s regionized saturation and blur tools helped me to make it better visible and in this way to create the visual descant i regarded necessary in this picture.
in retrospective, last week’s 13min. wait for the bus were a really creative time slice. 4 images that i regarded worth showing taken in a really short timeframe…
and i am lucky, too, that i still have them: having no cardreader at hand, late in the night i moved them from the cf card to my fathers computer’s /tmp directory in order to transfer them over the network to my laptop. too tired to think i shut down his computer immediately after moving, and linux clears the /tmp space at that occasion. bummer! but: search engines to the rescue, in this case Aurélien’s room – it is no problem to recover deleted files from a vfat file system. so i did not loose a single raw file.
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St. Pankraz church is built on one of the oldest inhabitated places in the valley of Bad Reichenhall. Accessible through only a narrow footpath, this location was safe from attacks from below and must have been an old ritual place, too. One of my best christmas experiences is connected with this church: walking 1 hour through the snow, with a pitch-torch in the hand, and then attending midnight mass.
