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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
outside the temple, a sheer sinfony of reds welcomed the visitor – carried to the extreme by the matching outfit of the woman.
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.
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.…
this weekend, a wildfire destroyed more then 300.000 square meters of precious protection forest next to Bad Reichenhalldue to the extreme drought we are experiencing this april. But many catastrophies have their asthetic aspects, and so does this. Nine helicopters were continously flying on sunday to water the areas where the fire was already extinguished
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.