Resting Fender

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The colors of the mediterranean countries in the summer are blue and white, and most famous for this combination are the greek islands. Here in Krk you have to actively look for these iconic colors, I found it in an unusual place, high on the upper deck of a large fish trawler. The setting evening sun has muted the intensity already, humid air had softened the blue of the sky, but a bit of rust provides enough complementary color to give the blues their intensity back.

This is one of my preferred photographing styles: looking for form and color combinations and isolating them by a long focal length and a tight framing.

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a blue bike for andreas

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over at his blog andreas manessinger showcases his one-image-a-day post number one-thousand! my heartfelt congratulations for the many excellent images he showed, his extraordinary perseverance, and not least his communicative skills.

andreas' blog was the first blog i followed regularly when i started blogging myself. and in the beginning it were largely his encouraging and challenging comments that made me intensify my work and speed up my posting frequency. i didn't forget his comment "can we have more of that please? three images in november? c'mooon :)" - andreas, thank you very much for this!

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krk beach

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family holidays in krk mean spending quite some time on the beach, often without the camera. but when i finally took it with me and dug out my 11-18 lens, it was quite nice to make a wide beach scenery out of a nice small spot. guess it should qualify for the mindful eye's assignment of complimentary colors.

again bibble5's region feature helped to emphasize the sky in addition to the polarizing filter. if you are not already determined on "your" raw converter, bibble5 is definitely worth more than a try. it is now even faster then the old version was and scales well with multicore cpus.

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blue wall, laufen

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spring time all around, today with matching weather. probably this season makes many of us sensitive for fresh and intensive colors. at least it did with me, and the family excursion to the small town of laufen remunerated me with this symphony in blue.

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"don't throw anything out of the window"

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the dull light of todays afternoon could not motivate me to go out shooting, instead i spent some time with scribus, familiarizing myself with the sofobomo requirements to layout my pictures in a harmonic way.

the image shows pictograms on a train window, taken at this weeks commute to munich. i always carry my camera on these trips, but rarely use it that early in the morning, as usually my photographic brains are even more asleep then the rest of the body. but this time it had worked for me.

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cold winter

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back to cold reality. here in my hometown winter is going strong. the scenery above could well be from astrid lindgren's the tomten, here on youtube.

i don't want to chime into the 'waiting for springtime/i love winter' posts. winter is not my favourite time of the year, but it is the season we will see change all too soon due to the warming of the atmosphere. so i'll catch it while i can.

today i want to pick up ilan breslers idea to feature a blog which i think is worth to be read: a blog from russia, http://photo.alick.ru/. i can't read any letter of the posts, but some of the photographs are fascinating. so feel free to follow the link under the thumbnail to the right. and of course, check ilans blog here.

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footed icicles

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post-dated publishing is nice-to-have. when you get to see this icicle from frozen bavaria, i am supposed to be in abu dhabi, bound for sri lanka.

there should be internet connection in the hotel, so there hopefully will be no break in posting.

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as cold as blue

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it was today. -12°c make you very grateful for your gloves and very ungrateful towards camera 'engineers' creating itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie rubber knobs on the remote control of your camera, which refuse to be operated with gloves.

i had found a small streambed just below a seamill, which sported besides the usual icicles also this wonderful transparent ice sheets between the rocks. well worth freezing off my fingers for one hour...

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layered landscape

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finally in holidays in croatia on the island of krk. too tired after
almost 8 hours of driving to go out and make pictures of the evening
light, at least i got up early and captured that fine layered island
hills. beach life is not really for me - it bores after 2 hours - but
the old city and the harbour promise a lot of visually appealing
subjects. and as the campground sports wifi connectivity at the
reception, i hope to be able to keep posting.

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wing tsun

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the first time i made really use of the blue hour and the my old zoom. focused to close distance, wide open, the bokeh really becomes great. which is no wonder at the other hand as there are no diaphragm blades involved. again, anti-shake saved my day as handholding 320mm effective focal length at 1/20s shutter speed is next to impossible, even when leaning to a lamp post. iso 1600 as a usable sensor speed is a value in itself (as is auto-iso, when you are in a hurry), though i have to admit that with other subjects the grain is below the optimum.

it took some time, but it seems that i grow more and more accustomed to my camera and can detach myself from technique and concentrate more and more on seeing. and in the end, *this* is it what really matters.

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skater abstract

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 picture was good!

sometimes a flop can be a success.

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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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