Gone Fishing

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Not the blue sky nor the blue sea, just the pyramid shape of the young men grouped on the rocks made me take out the camera.

A second take of the same scenery shows more context, but alas, the "perfection" of the pyramid is already dissolved.

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the heat is on

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another take on minimalism and a fond remembrance of the holidays. here in bavaria the mornings are already cold with 12° C, but there are good chances for a nice indian summer. the good habit of getting up early and do some photography i have kept alive, but in the moment the 'creative juices' are not flowing that well. but there is sufficient work on the raw files left, and sometimes the one or other image with potential turns up.

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stormy weather

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a photographers dilemma: securing the tent or getting the shot. in the end i (barely) managed to do both, very much to the contentment of the slightly upset wife. the storm was as heavy as the clouds dramatic, the latter visible as shown after some treatment in lightzone.

this kind of clouds i already knew from baroque paintings and i was more then astonished to see that postprocessing algorithms based on pure mathematics calculate similar enhancement as master painters already did hundreds of years ago. back home i will do some investigations for images with a similar sky.

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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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silvery sea

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if there is a single one photographic situation that i do like most, it's backlight in all its variations. it gives so much opportunity for drama, for hiding distracting things, for abstracting from a world full of diverting colors into the essence of shapes and silhouettes. in the picture above as well as in the prior "kalmunai fishermen" the beauty of form is intensified.

in grey past a.k.a. my film days, backlight was always difficult, specifically when shooting slides. in my experience, dslrs are well suited for backlight especially in situations where you can easily chimp or bracket. and my sony a700 seems to keep a lot of highlight information in its raw files for discovery with a suitable tool, lightzone in my case.

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