I am working my way towards primes, and how to get to love them. Besides some remembrances of the past and the prospect of superior image quality (difficult as my standard zoom is well-renowned Carl Zeiss 16-80) and of course the possibility to use faster lenses, it is, well, demanding. Not so much the fact…
Just some shapes and colors for today, which found during our last bathing excursion to Thumsee (already quite cold it is, with autumn so near). I had brought the old Minolta 1.4/85mm lens, which I love very much for the soft transition into the unsharp, also in this image. Despite being something purely technical, I…
9/11 is a sad anniversary for all humankind. My deepest compassion is with all that have lost a loved one in these tragic events.* That religion gets abused to justify large scale slaughter was and is nothing new, and naive is everybody who believes that humankind has overcome this stage. That the native country of…
Among the campers you find all kinds of preferences, sometimes also for the not so obvious things like this big wall clock. The image seem simple, however it took me to attempts to get enough evening sky and details in the lighted areas, and in the end I had to resort to a layer to…
Not that the LX3 would be *the* camera I chose for low-light work, but it is possible. I truly despise public relation monsters like the MEGA O.I.S. name that Panasonic gave the image stabilisation mechanism, but I have to state that it works: a quarter of a second handheld yielding in sufficient sharpness for sure…
I know it’s a bad thing to spy at people through a long lens – Tyler, you know, this girlwatcher type 🙂 – and I won’t repeat it in the next time. But when framing this image I mainly saw the size proportions of person and tires and that round/square contrast. Only afterwards on the…
On my last day in Krk there was an occasion to photograph reflections in the harbour, as the winds had pushed all dirt into a remote corner of the basin. The image above stood out during the first culling, the others remain to be inspected more thoroughly. The colourful dots are the reflection of a…
After a long trip back home and a good night’s sleep I finally managed to update the blog: Here are the September wallpapers for your kind perusal. Maybe they can keep the feeling and smell of summer alive into Autumn.
Just in time I managed to finish and upload my SoFoBoMo 2011 photobook, aptly titled Conditioned Krk for the countless air condition units it features. Those creepers have been subjects of a number of pictures I posted from Krk, and this year I’ve used the opportunity of SoFoBoMo’s fuzzy month and my summer holidays to…
This week, one of Germany’s greatest humorists has died. The man on the beach is reading the most disreputable German boulevard newspaper ‘Bild’ (my keyboard cringed when I typed the word ‘newspaper’ in this connotation), which is famous for its large-letter black and red titlepage, with the sad news shouted at the reader.
For an old seafarer tribe as the people from the island of Krk, the boat certainly was as dear as cars are now. So it’s not astonishing to see normal boats, not the leasure type, next to many houses.
I am more than happy that Police Chief Jim McDonnell (via conscientious) is not on duty in Omišalj. I am certainly not sure about the artistic value of the image above, but getting detained for it certainly would be a draconic measure. But with long hair and moustache, I might well qualify for a potential…
The Kamplin is the main place next to the Bishop’s church in the town of Krk, and in the summer evenings visited by big numbers of tourists. In the mornings usually it’s quiet (and clean), good to visit when the shadows are still long.
Having fallen in love with the square format – the LX3 helped a lot as it offers it as a native format – I continue using it under much more difficult circumstances with the DSLR. There are two marks for the square in the viewfinder, visible but not really helpful when it comes to aligning…
