looking through the woods

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the blue hour at the moment is quite pronounced, of course the thick clouds make the transit of the light a bit longer. lucky enough i managed to combine the weekly shopping super-task with an hour of walking the tripod. not far from the spot where i took cold winter and the sleeping witch in a winter night the trail i was following suddenly had only one thin layer of branches between me and the village of grossgmain and the untersberg behind it. and especially the branches high above me captured my attention, one of the rare opportunities where i used my 11-18 wideangle zoom.

this lens is quite special: whilst i use it only for a small fraction of my shots, a disproportionate high fraction of those i regard above average. and i had quite a steep learning curve and still do not master it in the way i would like to: making those pictures with a grand subject whilst including a lot of environment information in the background. but my feeling for it grows, and overall it seems to have been a good investment.

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instead of eating burgers

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my daughters were invited by a classmate for a birthday party in salzburg airport center's burger king, and i did prefer not to stay. hence the title (which is an adaption of moscow art trio's "instead of making children", a worthy recommendation for you jazz fans out there), and my mood then was comparable to today's when i did my tax declaration.

in spite of low light and a not so pleasant surrounding - at least i had managed to flee, but came out in the floodplain forest of river saalach, just next to the sewerage treatment plant - i cooled down (literally) and made the best out of it: pictures. and even if they are all but drop-dead-gorgeous, i had a fine hour just concentrating on seeing and creating.

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