Posts Tagged ‘thumsee’
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Although the weather indicates the end of ice and snow here – at least of the semi-permanent stuff – I want to share a last image of frozen Thumsee with you. This image create a kind of conflict in me: Usually I restrict myself to very limited operations in postprocessing, kind of the wet darkroom stuff like burning/dodging, contrast operations etc. But here the linear shape of that fallen tree was disturbed by a branch sticking out in the foreground. Without it I like the image much better, so I removed it. But this of course is a critical operation: without limits I might transplant items in the next image, or between images, and I don’t know where this would end. I guess I will stick with my old rule: If I could have removed it by hand, I can clone it out. Just sometimes a little bending of the rules…
Tags:cloning, ice, postprocessing, snow, thumsee
Posted in dahoam (at home), winter | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Thumsee is the home of many grass snakes (or ring snakes, natrix natrix), which find enough protected areas to hunt for prey and raise their breed. But now of course they all rest, usually in dry caves or piles of rotten leaves. But their “gestalt” stays vivid in the shape of some old, half drowned wood.
Tags:reed, Reet, Ringelnatter, Schilfrohr, thumsee
Posted in dahoam (at home) | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Since some days the temperatures are slowly rising, the snow mixes with rain and the ice on the lakes and ponds changes sound and color: the sound gets powerless, foul and the color undecided, the reflectivitiy is lost. Definitely signs for the end of the winter, even if the snowdrops are still invisible in most of the places. Thumsee again is a place for recreation, to re-gain power, to recharge and find peace.
Tags:Eis, ice, thumsee, winter
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Again from Thumsee, the magic place. The water of this lake is cold and very clear even in the summer, and now in the winter time the reflections on the jet black surface are just magical.
Just to show you what it is like in the summer. And no, I don’t really suffer from winter’s cold and snow up to now. The less so as pollen season is about to start, so I do know what I am trading in for the warmer times of spring and early summer.
Tags:thumsee, trees
Posted in dahoam (at home), reflection | 6 Comments »
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Whilst downtown masquerade is the trend of the moment, only 5km out of town you can find incredibly quiet and almost achingly pure moments, like this ice on Thumsee. I created some more images today, but in my eyes nothing could match this quiet pattern of ice, hoarfrost and water.
With this image I send special regards to Martha in Vienna, who has a special appreciation for that place.
Tags:Abstract, bw, cold, ice, thumsee
Posted in dahoam (at home), winter | 5 Comments »
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
This was one of the rare occasions where I dug out my summer lens, the venerable 16-80mm zoom. It renders very sharp images, but the slow f-stops from 3.5 to 4.5 make it quite unsuitable during our current short and dark winter days, especially when the sky is overcast. But here I could stop down to f8, resulting in sharp grasses and florescences but still blurred background.
Tags:grass, reed, thumsee
Posted in dahoam (at home), winter | 3 Comments »
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
The lake we are heading for in the summer is now a cold, almost lifeless place (besides that one bald coot trying to destroy the reflection). But for a walk it is attractive now, even more so when light snowfall dampens the noise of the cars. Having the tripod with me instead of the fashy walking sticks meant that ground speed was lower than expected by my wife, but she managed to bear with me without suffering too noticable.
Update: Please find the wallpapers for February 2010 are online. You find them in the usual screen resolutions underhttp://markus-spring.info/wp/wallpapers/
Tags:Bad Reichenhall, reflection, snow, thumsee, tree
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
had a tremendous bathing day with the kids at thumsee next to bad reichenhall. Just opposite the beach through the leaves a now empty wooden house in the middle of the natural reserve area was visible, a nice target for a swim.
Processed this image with lightzone as most of my other pictures. unfortunately lightcrafts has still not released v3.0 for linux, there are only older versions still available for this platform under http://www-old.lightcrafts.com/linux/
Tags:Bad Reichenhall, bavaria, lake, summer, thumsee
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Although the weather indicates the end of ice and snow here – at least of the semi-permanent stuff – I want to share a last image of frozen Thumsee with you. This image create a kind of conflict in me: Usually I restrict myself to very limited operations in postprocessing, kind of the wet darkroom stuff like burning/dodging, contrast operations etc. But here the linear shape of that fallen tree was disturbed by a branch sticking out in the foreground. Without it I like the image much better, so I removed it. But this of course is a critical operation: without limits I might transplant items in the next image, or between images, and I don’t know where this would end. I guess I will stick with my old rule: If I could have removed it by hand, I can clone it out. Just sometimes a little bending of the rules…
