Posts Tagged ‘white’

New Gallery: Blue Ship Details

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

The two last years I have collected images of the red shipping vessels moored in the harbour of Krk. The best frames went into the small gallery “Red Ship Details” here on this site. In a certain sense finding these images was simple as red is compelling, almost shouting at you. Add to that the fact that where I live red is a rare color (only some train waggons are red) and it is easy to understand my fascination.

The new gallery “Blue Ship Details” is less “pushy” in its colours. The blue ships in Krk have wooden hulls and are generally older. Here my interest was sparked by the weathered surfaces and the blue-white contrast. These images are more quiet, but I love them not lesser than my red series.

Tags:blue, fishing vessels, harbour, ship, weathered, white
Posted in Croatia, Krk | 5 Comments »

White Parcel Courier

Monday, March 8th, 2010
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One of the results of a lunchtime stroll. No story behind, just delight about that blue-white combination. You can’t always resort to greek islands for this color combination, so I decided to take what I could get.

Tags:Bad Reichenhall, DPS, van, white
Posted in urban | 1 Comment »

Blue Shades of White

Thursday, January 7th, 2010
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click (as always) on the image to enlarge

There is a bavarian folk singer group that sings with kids for kids, and one of their songs starts with a conversation:

“What’s your favourite season?”
      ”springtime, summer, … fall … winter”
“But that’s all seasons!”
      ”Yes – what’s wrong with this?”

For a photographer’s eyes this seems to be the right attitude: In every season there is something to find, not always big spectacular things, but very often tiny gems. With snow however, it’s a bit special now: My mother-in-law was an active skier, and she still tells about downhill routes that are barely visible now: Trees have taken there place, as for decades now the winters have become shorter here and snow has become less.

I admit being a “warmist”, and so I try to savour the snow even more, knowing that those fairy-tale like winters I had as a child are past and gone. But that is only the least disagreable consequence of global warming.

Tags:blue, climate change, global warming, ice, snow, white
Posted in dahoam (at home), winter | 5 Comments »

Resting Fender

Thursday, August 13th, 2009
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The colors of the mediterranean countries in the summer are blue and white, and most famous for this combination are the greek islands. Here in Krk you have to actively look for these iconic colors, I found it in an unusual place, high on the upper deck of a large fish trawler. The setting evening sun has muted the intensity already, humid air had softened the blue of the sky, but a bit of rust provides enough complementary color to give the blues their intensity back.

This is one of my preferred photographing styles: looking for form and color combinations and isolating them by a long focal length and a tight framing.

Tags:mediterranean, white
Posted in Krk, blue | 1 Comment »

lonesome track

Monday, February 11th, 2008
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the art of engineering: removing all uneccessary parts. engineering my picture, i applied the same maxim – killing the clutter.

when my ladies were skiing, i took an hour off and went my own ways in a different, less populated part of this mountain (hard to find, i can tell you). even harder it was to hold the 450mme zoom to get this diagonal line, because with my glasses i don’t see all corners of the viewfinder simultaneously. but in the end i had to do only marginal cropping.

matching song might be “freedom’s just another word for nothing have to loose” – kudos for the picture/music combination andreas manessinger.

Tags:minimalism, snow, tracks, white
Posted in dahoam (at home), nature | 3 Comments »

skater abstract

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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this is the story of a flop, almost.

my camera made this picture… the olde Minolta 7D has a really slow low light autofocus performance? Anyhow, i pressed the shutter and nothing happened because the outoffocus-system didn’t see the subject as sharp. when it did, the girl had turned around her head – and the picture was good!

sometimes a flop can be a success.

Tags:colors, digikam, stripes, white
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