took a walk yesterday through my hometown. one of the doors i often pass by stood open this time and formed a much more inviting picture than the times before. i had admired the marble doorframe quite often, but it never made a picture for me. lightzone for linux helped in dodging the corridor so…
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ship approaching weggis/lake lucerne
taken earlier this year in switzerland. the scenery was difficult for a digital sensor to capture due to the extreme bright light, but i think the camera (minolta 7D/maxxum 7) did amazingly well. re-processed the raw file with lightzone for linux and tweaked the saturation of the flag with a mask. Other than that just…
skywards, bw
i already had worked on this picture in color, but when finally deciding to try a b&w conversion it turned out much stronger. work done in lightzone for linux
water world
strange world far away from us – quiet, graphical in this picture, and with no proper means of communicating with us humans. lightzone for linux again, to pimp that raw file with only a small contrast range due to the nature of the light. Great software, poor company.
mongolian dancer at shenshen-festival in nuremberg
the mongolian troop formed the first part of the shenshen festival – their performance and especially their music was really amazing. The ended with a song in frankonian tongue – the local dialect of nuremberg – in something like a “zwiefacher” rhythm (two rhythms alternating) whicht showed their extreme musical capabilites. lightzone again made my…
chinese dancers at shenshen festival, nuremberg
i have to admit i was ebbing between fascination and a certain kind of distance to these chinese dancers. quite a lot reminded of old american dance films just teleported to chinese costumes and music. still the images that formed on the stage were sometimes stunning. And if Karl Moik would perform in Shenshen, probably…
chinese spectator at shenshen festival, nuremberg
i get the taste for available light again. fortunately i was seated at a table from which i got support for my elbows. i liked specially her self-forlornness in front of a stage with very active performances. on a sidenote: supporters for the freedom of tibet were waving banners. the chinese consulate-general wanted to get…
four-legged piano concerto
how to symbolize a music schools summer concert where children show what they have learnt in the last six months? listening intently to the performance of a girl together with her mother playing four-handed on the piano, i suddenly realized the nice composition of their feet
solitary reed, b&w
i start getting the taste for b&w again – positve feedback helps. and it makes no sense comparing the b&w version with the color original, because each has merits of its own. and they require different treatment, as i have seen with with the picture above. Whilst the original needed no extra treatment for the…
cross, st. peter’s cemetary, salzburg
the wrought iron crosses on St. Peter’s graveyard in Salzburg probably catched my attention. it is a nice and quiet place in spite of the many tourists that come and go. lightzone’s region feature helped in accentuating the foreground cross by just a little darkening of the wall of the chapel. the slr’s viewfinder, especially…
clocktowers of salzburg, Austria
the raw file gave an severely underexposed impression, but this retained the sky instead of letting it become just white. masking in lightzone for linux allowed to keep the sky and brighten the clocktowers to realistic values again. this is just a great piece of software. and here is a b&w version of this picture.…
salzburg, cupola of the cathedral
heavily clouded sky alternating with drizzle provided extremely soft light during yesterday’s walk through salzburg, austria. Inside the cathedral it was amazingly bright. without any tricks or excessive processing, the b&w conversion of this picture already achieved highly graphic and abstract quality. this photo may give an hdr-like impression or a change between a positive…
natural vista – enjoying the summer
had a tremendous bathing day with the kids at thumsee next to bad reichenhall. Just opposite the beach through the leaves a now empty wooden house in the middle of the natural reserve area was visible, a nice target for a swim. Processed this image with lightzone as most of my other pictures. unfortunately lightcrafts…
onion spire, reloaded
this is an emblematic picture for the governing period of the still-in-charge bavarian premier e. stoiber. he was harvesting the fruits of an ongoing change since the end of ww2 in bavaria from a rural and somewhat backward country to a modern habitat for hi-tec companies. the onion spire on the clocktower was almost a…
waiting for the thunderstorm
last day of holidays was the 2nd day with fairly good weather. in the late afternoon clouds gathered and formed a thunderstorm front over the valley of river Drau. when the first flashes appeared far away, the kids stopped playing on the beach and started watching out for the thunderstorm. and the light was just…
evening quiescence
vacancies in rainy weather do not include too many activities. even though the evening quiescence on the campground, when all kids were in their respective sleeping bags and only very little people walked along the tiny stretch of beach was really recreative – only some minutes for myself made up for the whole day of…
reflection in rain
that rain lasted for a whole week. getting accustomed to the noise of raindrops on the trailer roof, I slowly adjusted myself to it. And sometimes, the rain made up for a really pretty scenery.
more rain
so I had rain before my holidays and in my holidays. my nephew didn’t mind and kept standing in the water in search for a fish. after three unsuccessful days he started using a canoe and voila, out on the lake he was lucky.
rain
not the worst thing to do: editing your photos while rain is hitting the window.
statue of St. Florian in Hallstatt, Austria
the seafront of a hotel in Hallstatt, Austria, is decorated with this statue of St. Florian under a window with a romanesque double arc. on mother’s day 2007 Hallstatt was really quiet and definitely worth the visit with the whole family.
monsoon in colombo
the pouring rain and the humidity provided a natural soft focus effect. at times rain was so heavy that you just had to hide under a roof and wait. galle face hotel was quite empty at that pre-monsoon time in colombo, in this way aggravating the feeling of lost former times and their glory.
castle from a fairy tale
taken with a polarizer filter in front of my 17-35mm, I tried to intensify the mirrored picture, but had to learn that my theory was flawed because of the unpolarized nature of the sunlight. Anyhow, the picture came out as I wanted it, so at least the polarizer did no harm. labour day morning was…
sinfony in red, chinese temple, jakarta
outside the temple, a sheer sinfony of reds welcomed the visitor – carried to the extreme by the matching outfit of the woman.
chinese woman praying, jakarta
the dim light in the chinese temple was really a challenge that I could overcome with highest ISO setting. But I thing the mood is well retained and transport through this spektrum of reds emerging from the darkness.
incense in the chinese temple
after two days of sitting in dimly lit conference rooms in a hotel in Jakarta, I finally had 8 hours to see where I really am after < 30 hours of traveling from europe. the chinese have a vibrant quarter in the center, and there i met this man sacrificing probably alcohol in his temple.…