I had looked at this facade quite often during day- and nighttimes as the offer a rich play of effects - just see onion spire, reloaded
Whilst the moving body parts in the gym windows of the first floor don't really lend themselves for a (static) photograph, the reflections do so quite well.
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spending some time outside on one of our favourite spots i noticed those deeply rooted, strong trees - probably hornbeams.
It is part of a series i took, just follow the flickr link. i am considering to re-shoot this with different focus distances, given i can install helicon focus via wine on my linux box. sharpness in all parts of the image would be an added bonus here, i think.
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i tried to get a japanese painter for this scenery. found none, so i did it my way.
this kind of layered landscape fascinates me since i can think, so i try it again and again in spite of the danger to get stuck in a cliché
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maybe it's only a sort of necrophilia, but i do have to admit that i usually enjoy broken down machinery much more than the new, chrome fineshed, ultra polished specimen.
having half an hour to wander around next to the kid's skiing area, i noticed an old tractor left under some elder bushes for further decay. the sun was still high and the shadows harsh and no uniform background available for a shot of the whole carcass, so i resorted to some detail shots. during postprocessing i desaturated a bit, it makes the turquoise painting less presumptuous.
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the art of engineering: removing all uneccessary parts. engineering my picture, i applied the same maxim - killing the clutter.
when my ladies were skiing, i took an hour off and went my own ways in a different, less populated part of this mountain (hard to find, i can tell you). even harder it was to hold the 450mme zoom to get this diagonal line, because with my glasses i don't see all corners of the viewfinder simultaneously. but in the end i had to do only marginal cropping.
matching song might be "freedom's just another word for nothing have to loose" - kudos for the picture/music combination andreas manessinger.
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there is only little water in weissbach at this time of the year, while in early summer this is a spot well known for whitewater kayaking.
the warm weather of the last weeks made the snow melt even down in the canyon, but the old snow on the path is now almost like ice, so it was not possible to walk deep into the gorge. still there were some interesting spots, and the water carried and displayed a very intense feeling of cold and freshness.
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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 this shot in full resolution, you would notice it's not razor sharp inspite having been taken with a tripod. But: it was taken with my old tripod, as paypal hold up the (bank collection) payment for the new one for 6 days and therefore it did not arrive in time. and the old tripod is too weak for camera plus zoom. can you imagine how furious I am?
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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 bored, but i had to explain several times that during exposure she was not allowed to move in order to avoid vibrations in the cassata-style soil.
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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
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