Posts Tagged ‘train’
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Commuting again, while the summer weather takes a break to make place for rain showers and cold temperatures around 13°C in the morning (that’s 55°F for you folks outside the metric system). My self chosen lens diet – only the wideangle – is not a diet in the sense of restriction, instead reveals constantly new images to me. And meanwhile I even manage to create shallow DoF frames – it’s all a question of moving near enough.
Tags:drop, green, rain, train, window
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
The weather here on the northern slope of the Alps reminds me a bit of what Paul Maxim wrote not long ago about the weather in the Rochester area. What we have at the moment is more like a late winter with night temperatures below 10°C and 15°C during the day – only the intensive green of the flora is a proof for the early summer.
Taking the train for commuting at least means a relaxed situation without confrontation with testosterone-loaded freedom-on-the-highway seekers, given the waggon’s airspace doesn’t get completely pervaded by the busy chit-chat of students on a school trip. The extended living room, that is so often projected into a car, *can* be a major motivation. That it’s not a sustainable one can easily be blocked out.
Tags:rain, spring, sustainability, tracks, traffic, train, window
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Thursday, April 15th, 2010
On the way back into 19th century, the central railway system of Germany now gets de-centralized and in the regions the railway public transport is handled by smaller, sometimes county based companies. This can have a positive side-effect like those brand new suburban cars, but also results in some weird occurences: Completely to the surprise of this local railway company, the “Berchtesgadener Land Bahn”, the alps were erected quasi overnight, and for monthes those new cars had to remain unused until a special permit to use them on mountain tracks could be obtained. Of course neither the railway company nor the central administration for railway security was responsible… But now the new system is working, the staff is friendly and competent, and whilst de-centralization and competetion didn’t result yet in lower prices (they should, isn’t it? That’s why de-centralisation and competition are introduced.), at least service didn’t downgrade 
Tags:Bad Reichenhall, morning, mountain, Predigtstuhl, station, train
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The locomotive driver probably did not share my adventurous feelings regarding a trip to Rome – and I guess he had to go up to the border to Austria only anyhow. Different perspectives everywhere, and differentiate I did also (again) with a big f-stop, and afterwards in postprocessing by working on that cold-warm contrast as well.
From the number of keepers within that week that I own this lens now it seems that this purchase was a good decision. That (slow zoom lens induced) lack of shallow DoF is the only drawback I see at the moment with my APS-C format camera. But with the right prime it is not an issue any more. That I get high shutter speeds even in the darker times of the day is another benefit, albeit a smaller one when taking that great high-iso performance of the current camera generation into account. Oh – I have to say yesterday’s camera generation, as my model is already 2 years old – an eon in today’s camera makers fast development rhythm.
Tags:bokeh, DoF, Hauptbahnhof, münchen, munich, rain, station, train
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
When Munich is grey, cold and wet, a train to Rome is an alternative definetely worth considering. Well, I guess I am too duteous or too inflexible, and so I chose the well known path to the office.
Tags:munich, station, train
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
The time in the train I spent mostly for the wallpapers today. You can reach them through the top menu. I have created them in a variety of resolutions, so you should find a matching size. If not, use the contact page. If you like them, you could use the contact form as well.
Tags:bavaria, commuting, train, Traunstein, wallpapers
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
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Tags:rain, train
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