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…
my daughter’s school had an art project at the banks of our river: on saturday morning they created this beautiful stone snake. Andy Goldsworthy was definitely an inspiration for this. his film “rivers and tides” (4 min. clip on youtube) is surely worth to be seen (again). this photo on .
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the sun was in the perfect direction and angle to highlight the iron nails and the lock as well as to shed some light on the the cast iron trellis with its golden coating I had to change my raw converter as lightcrafts decided to drop the linux version of their lightzone raw converter. The…
a firewall in petting, a small village on the shore of lake waging. exposed to north west and getting sun only late in the afternoon, the virginia creeper showed all colors from deep green over blue to red and yellow. postprocessing this image, i did not touch the saturation but only adjusted brightness and contrast…
This is no b&w picture… The evening light was incredibly soft, showing only faint layers of the mountains in the slight fog. In the lower right corner you see Fraueninsel with the clocktower of the monastery’s church. Taken from a public transport boat to Chieming on the east coast of Chiemsee.The original contrast range was…
working through my archives i found this picture taken 2005 on a tsunami evaluation trip waiting in Colombo for the transfer to the east coast. this photo on .
found outside a soap shop in st. wolfgang, austria. taken with the famous beercan (ofenrohr for german-speaking), and i had to learn holding it steady 😉
suddenly summer is over. cold rain starts, and the snow suddenly is visible again not high above my hometown. strange feeling to operate the camera with wet, cold, unwilling fingers again. used lightzone for linux to differentiate the sky and faint mountains.
as there is no time to go out shooting, one last from the shenzen festival in nuremberg. The others are here, here and here.i found their pose really striking in front of the black background. raw file developed with lightzone for linux.
one of the rare sceneries if have found that express a nothing-more-nothing-less than utterly relaxing mood. usually i develop my raw files, but this jpeg was already so good that i did only really minor tweaking in digikam before uploading it. this photo on .