the old sycamore tree with its expressive figure and cortex iuxtaposes nicely the oh so mundane ‘parking tickets’ signboard. lightzone again proved to be a valuable tool to darken the background a little bit and except it from the sharpening algorithms. the second shot is the shadow of St. Ägidius church here in Bad Reichenhall.…
after winter came back into our valley for three days and brought some fresh snow, i used some free hours to go back to weissbach canyon to look for water and ice. those layers above covered several square meters of rocks. in the end they stopped my exploring of the canyon as they were impossible…
this image is a lecture of seeing for me. our photo group wasvisiting a local vernissage and i made use of the occasion to train myfingers, and eyes so i thought. everything very conventional, some nicesnaps of kids and the artist, but no real picture. we went up tothe balustrade with some more collages on…
after the storm has been ebbing, i dared to go out again without having to fear flying branches or roof tiles. winds were still fierce so I captured the moving leaves. a second try where the shaking spring snowflakes here. So my new tripod proved to be a stable support for the camera even in…
I had looked at this facade quite often during day- and nighttimes as the offer a rich play of effects – just see onion spire, reloaded Whilst the moving body parts in the gym windows of the first floor don’t really lend themselves for a (static) photograph, the reflections do so quite well.
spending some time outside on one of our favourite spots i noticed those deeply rooted, strong trees – probably hornbeams. It is part of a series i took, just follow the link. i am considering to re-shoot this with different focus distances, given i can install helicon focus via wine on my linux box. sharpness…
i tried to get a japanese painter for this scenery. found none, so i did it my way. this kind of layered landscape fascinates me since i can think, so i try it again and again in spite of the danger to get stuck in a cliché .
maybe it’s only a sort of necrophilia, but i do have to admit that i usually enjoy broken down machinery much more than the new, chrome fineshed, ultra polished specimen. having half an hour to wander around next to the kid’s skiing area, i noticed an old tractor left under some elder bushes for further…
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…
there is only little water in weissbach at this time of the year, while in early summer this is a spot well known for whitewater kayaking. the warm weather of the last weeks made the snow melt even down in the canyon, but the old snow on the path is now almost like ice, so…
from yesterday’s excursion into weissbach canyon. The light was quite flat on site, but raw processing with lightzone did small wonders. i tried to work out a good effect of the negative space embracing the icicles but still do wonder if it’s the best possible crop. paypal almost ruined the shot. if you could see…
the sunlight had selectively warmed this leaf so it sunk into the ice over the days. the low evening light then created this almost surreal look with the dark black borders. it was the first time that one of my twin daughters, now six years old, came with me shooting. fortunately she did not get…
catching changing light qualities from the same point of view seems to become an obsession – going through my files i discovered at least five shots from this scenery (see this). Beeing a backlight fan i couldn’t resist this glow which the raw file recorded in all its beauty .
i love this picture, but as the author i am allowed to be biased. i was told it does not contain a center of interest, and in the classic sense, this is true. what i love in this picture is the shere abundance of colors, forms and structures. mute, like holding it’s breath, but there…
a cold winter afternoon, and i was just checking skating opportunities with the family. my daughter had already cold feet so she was very impatiently waiting for me to stop taking pictures. i already had this feeling of seeing a Brueghel like landscape (look at the return of the hunters) earlier in the Schönram bog…
my best wishes for this our world and all people living here with us.
walked the new camera yesterday, or better tried to sneak off from christmas shopping for some photo opportunities. weather was almost grey in grey with only some holes in the fog, bitter cold and the car a real homy place. and usable as a support too, for example for this shot with 300mme focal lenght…
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…
St. Pankraz church is built on one of the oldest inhabitated places in the valley of Bad Reichenhall. Accessible through only a narrow footpath, this location was safe from attacks from below and must have been an old ritual place, too. One of my best christmas experiences is connected with this church: walking 1 hour…
these pre-winter mornings have a certain depressive quality. cold but not really cold, old snow turned grey by pollution and simple dirt, low diffuse light and fog taking out a lot of the colors of the already de-coloured landscape. so i thought. but getting off sunday early morning and getting out from the warm air…
these fisherman lived in a village swept away by the tsunami. their resettlement area is 3km far away (plus crossing the lagoon by boat), but they still come to their old place to fish in the sea. knowing that their families are now safe from further waves is a great pacification for them. the city…
the east coast of sri lanka is a wonderful place – now that the fighting has stopped for the moment. i spent way too little time there. the co-workers in our post-tsunami project have become friends over the time, and their hospitality ist still overwhelming. due to the workload it was only in the early…
this was the last remembrance of summer we got this autumn. the light was in an astonishing way similar to springtime, coming through an already thin roof of leaves high above us. it’s not very often that i dare to include the sun in a picture i take with my 11-18 mm zoom, as this…
Wappach is a really small creek flowing along a district road – nothing spectacular, and so it took me 12 years to find it and explore its photogenic qualities. the picture above is taken maybe 10m away from some private gardens in an almost empty streambed due to the autumnal low water situation. i started…
always good for a postcard-quality picture, the church of maria gern is located on a very powerful place just over the street coming from berchtesgaden. evening is an excellent time to go there as it is almost abandoned then and the noise from the surroundings and the streets has pretty much died down. the mountains…