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 đ
soap roses
fall is in town
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.
chinese dancers at shenzhen festival, nuremberg
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.
balcony on blue wall, St. Wolfgang, austria
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 .
facade in St. Wolfgang, austria
abundant flowers (pelargonium) on this facade of an old house in St. Wolfgang, austria.
St. Nikolaus, Bad Reichenhall
it was quite dark in this church – 0.5s on a monopod is long, even with internal stabilization. i love the scenery with that single woman adding scale to this big hall.
bavaria, as icon
if i would need to capture all of bavaria in on picture, that might come close: costume, music, beer, reflection helping to view the world not as it is… bavaria is really special. a (in its majority) rural country thrown in the 21st century, still believing in conservative doctrines.
cast-iron doorhandle, Bad Reichenhall
another one from Bad Reichenhall: on an old deserted house I saw this wonderful door handle. lightzone again for postprocessing, but I had to burn/mask/blur to make the handle really stand out.
old marble doorframe in bad reichenhall
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…
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.