bad reichenhall in moonlight

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two days after full moon i finally managed to go out together with a handful of photographer friends to try some night shots of our hometown. the intensity of the moonlight was so high (and my lens protection filter probably not clean enough) that i got lens reflections - i never thought this could happen from moonlight.

"padinger alm" is a popular inn over the valley of bad reichenhall, just on the shoulder of mt. staufen, which you see in the background. image quality turns out to be less then optimal when pixel peeping, but the time was short and the purpose of the shots a slide show, so i didn't bother to always resort to the lowest iso.

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winter glow

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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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