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.

not the worst thing to do: editing your photos while rain is hitting the window.

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.

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.

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…

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.…

I know that easter is over, but it took me until yesterday to find my way to the easter fountain on Bad Reichenhall’s Florianiplatz. those eggs, more than 3000, are not plastic! the fresh colours, the old buildings, the afternoon light and the absence of billboards make up for a beautiful scenery (ok – you…

strolled through the city and found it jammed. ok, that’s pretty normal. but yesterday even the sky was jammed! At least it made up for a pretty picture

again from the open-air farm museum of Ballenberg, switzerland. these old rakes and scythes were inside an old farmhouse in very dim light, but I decided against the usage of my flash to capture the mood as it was, including the bright light from outside that came through the chinks in the timber wall.

visited the open-air farm museum of Ballenberg, switzerland. the weather was not to fine and the kids quite demanding, so from a photographical point of view the yield was lower than anticipated. but this cross and the mistletoe struck me as quite adequate for Good Friday.

even before the last snowfall, anemonae and primroses came into blossom on the slope behind our house. so winter is gone now. definitely. we hope. processed with bibble. both lightzone and bibble have their strengths, so it’s good that I am not forced to decide, at least not for now. processing of this pictures makes…

nobody wanted it anymore, but now it came: snow down to 300m above sealevel. so the hazel in our garden had her flowers suddenly covered in snow. it will not last long, but it was sufficient to wet us thoroughly on our way to kindergarden. photographically it brought a nice occasion to see colorful things…

I found this behind my house on a steep slope. I love the cool colors of the shadow and the play of the sunlight that came through still the bleak trees again processed with lightzone.

over the roofs of my hometown, Bad Reichenhall. the clocktower of St. Ägidius, and in the background mt. Hochstaufen. just discovered the linux version of lightzone. amazing user interface, excellent sharpness. the tone curve tool is just extraordinary, and the possibility to work on regions is great. however, speed and memory requirements are an issue.…

my daughter on a swing just reaching out over mt. Hochkalter towards the sun.

maybe my secret affinity to abstracts, but for sure my love for harmonious compositions took me away – I simply liked this picture from the very first moment. Up to now not much postprocessing, just simple cropping was applied.

this year’s winter is almost non-existing here in Berchtesgadener Land. Only in shadowy valleys in the mountains it is cold enough for skateable ice. there I found these beautiful frost flowers on some rocks in a landscape from a fairy tale.

in Munich’s glyptothek they have an exhibition “the myth of troy”. in contradiction to the saga my ulysses enters troy in the evening.