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.

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facade in St. Wolfgang, austria

abundant flowers (pelargonium) on this facade of an old house in St. Wolfgang, austria.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 that the details became visible in the picture. finally gimp helped to rectify the lines as I had to take a non-centric point of view to include the chair in the corridor into the picture.

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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 standard tone curve adaption and sharpening

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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

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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.

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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 day through its versatility and flexible layer techniques.

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