Images with two centers of interests have have to fight the problem of diverting the attention of the viewers focus. I hope the staging here is sufficient to give enought attraction to the nearer cascade before the gaze wanders to the bright spot in the background – and hopefully comes back. It’s a risk, but…
The Wimbach (-bach is the german word for creek) brings the waters down from Mt. Watzmann, which has the most prominent shape of the mountains here in the Berchtesgadener Land. The creek itself runs through a short canyon, offering cascades of all sorts and in all lighting situations. Now in spring time they are abundant,…
Forcedly spending some time at the fairground (too noisy, too many too young kids and too much alcohol around), I exercised my 85mm lens, trying to find out the right compression for that cacophonia of light and movement and sound. It was only when editing the images that I found that face included in all…
I have certainly a faible for forests. Of course you don’t find many natural forests over her outside of the national parks. What I do find interesting in those normal forests, owned by either farmers or the government, are those markings and boards, warnings or direction signs, which, once applied, are left decaying when they…
You will have noticed that the sidebar now greets you with a kiva.org banner on top. Optical aspects aside – the colors of the ad can be distracting until you enlarge the main post’s photography by clicking on it – I found it high time to extend my private support of kiva.org by advocating it…
Only some steps and minutes away from the last image I found this scenery. A subtle change in light directionality the selection of silhouetting branches makes quite a differance. I guess those images will make up for a nice diptych.
Evening light helped a lot to increase the magic of “The Paradise”, and my trusty tripod was absolutely necessary, as the light level dropped really fast due to the overcast sky. Even in-camera-stabilisation did find its limits there. Focusing was a bit difficult as I didn’t want to include too much background detail, but shallow…
A smalll evening photo walk with the local photographers group (not to confound with the duck’s camera club) gave some nice results despite of the grey weather and early dusk. Unexpectedly the air was almost quiet, greatly helping with the slow shutter speeds. The place is a local backwater, commonly denominated “The Paradise”. As the…
I know I am late, but here are May Wallpapers.
Just across the Austrian Border, the traditional costume association “D’ Lattenberger” set up the maypole in the museum village of Grossgmain. Instead of the blue-sky-green-grass sceneries I’d like to present some details which make pretty much the essence of the procedure – which is the important thing, not the final result itself.
Approaching the venue of the traditional maypole erection ceremony, I passed this hat on a pole. But I did not greet it…
My personal relationship with Thuja bushes is quite negative – I seem them as plants adequate for graveyards, and that is all the places I would think they are suitable for. In the last decades however they became really popular here to mark parcel borders or even to decorate front yards, gardens and facades. In…
© Carl Weese Time is running: The Pt/Pd print sale on The Online Photographer will end on Friday midnight! There is still enough time to order one or more prints of three images from Carl Weese, one of them is “The Pike Drive-In” from his series of American Drive-In Movie Theaters. The prints are offered…
The Honda car dealership here in Munich at the moment shows this poster. It seems that Eggleston’s image material (see the original here on the Washington Times website) was regarded insufficient for the intended purpose, so I guess a talented photoshop artist had to add blue sky and clouds as well as some warm tones…
In spite of the temperatures starting to rise to summerly heights, in those streets where the trees get only part-time exposition to the sun, the spring colors are still delicate. Fine for a walk when commuting traffic already subsides and the last sunlight gives the white blossoms a golden glow. (Oh yes, and I have…
What has salad to do with Chernobyl, and what the heck has Chernobyl to do with infinity? For the records: April 26th is the sad anniversary of the atomic catastrophy of Chernobyl. The victims of Chernobyl have not been counted, the true number has never been published, and thanks to this precaution of an inhuman…
Another kind of street photography, easier for me as the continous sneezing announces my activity to all potential human subject matter. The two different kinds of line interested me, and exploring the image in it, I tried b&w for a moment, but gave up again as the bluish tones of the shadows and the warm…
Quite a while ago, Mike Johnston of “The Online Photographer” postulated a Tenset for all photography websites. I do well remember that there were also some critical voices regarding this idea, in the sense that this would just alleviate consumability of individual work and so on. Having pondered on that proposal long enough, I finally…
A Westend street scenery. I probably can count myself lucky for not having been accused being a stalker, re-using that red parka as a welcome color element.
Next to the Resurrection Church, in an architectonic ensemble meanwhile under preservation order, is the last “Ledigenwohnheim” in Europe. It was built in 1926, visible by close inspection of the relief to the right, and was meant as a means to fight the increasing cheapest variant of lodging, where sleeping facilities where rented out only…
Built in the first decade of the 20th century, the “Church of Resurrection” in Munich showcases the “New Objectivity”, replacing Art Nouveau’s rich decoration with a really sober style where the material of the structure does not only serve a functional purpose but became visible facade and decoration, too.
Trying to find a balance between beauty and banality, furtheron trying to fight against deadly repetition, I fear I have lost and have to face defeat: I admit having used the saturation slider as nature’s colors were not satisfying my need for overwhelming warmth and tenderness.And to add to this crime, I have succumbed to…
The village of Anger is said to be the most beautiful on in Bavaria. Taking into account that this statement was made by King Ludwig I of Bavaria (Ludwig II was the slightly unhinged one, playing with fairy tale castles) and that the number of villages in Bavaria is quite big, this really means some…
Any doubts that he has golden hands, Hugo the Boss? Well, all those gazillions of fashion addicts should have made them golden in the meantime… But the company still can develop: At the moment there’s only fashion, perfumes, spectacle frames and watches from this brand. And the real money is not made by producing something…
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…