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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hiding in the tree

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another find from a stroll with the kids: a wonderful round tree shadow. the only difficulty was the photographer himself. i didn't want to take a self portrait with tree, so after some difficulty i merged my shadow with that of the tree's stem. oh yes, and the rarely used tamron 11-18 again performed well in this shot.

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tree house

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(pun? what pun?) sometimes the pictures come at you when you just lift your eyes to search for your way. i tried variations of this, some with a small roadside cross as foreground, but in the end the tightly framed plain shadow on the facade was the most convincing shot for me. well - kill the clutter is one of the few advices i try to follow...

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solar electric mantis

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in krk, the mantis can be met not only in human incarnations next to discos (as i was told) but also in insect form in the woods, on stone walls etc. the only specimen i found was on a wall in the middle of krk town, albeit a capital example.

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long shadows on the beach

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batticaloa beach again - a real bonanza of photographic opportunities this has turned out to be. my first pictures dates back to 2004, still before the tsunami. at that time i had only 1.5 days there and was surprised about the peaceful place batticaloa was then. to my utmost luck my friends idea of going there with the families for christmas holidays did not materialize. 2nd day of christmas 2004 the tsunami struck.

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hauling in the net

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the raw files from the last sri lanka mission are still a treasure chest. today i found this one. some adjustments in lightzone created a picture that appeals a lot to me - definitely not a "picture that sucks" as it was the topic of paul lester's post yesterday.

the recipe given there 'practice, practice, practice' is a good one, but in my experience somtimes a pat on the back from an experienced, open-eyed fellow can help a lot to bring one's vision forward. that's the reason why i am deliberating about visiting a workshop.

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snow and fence

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a lesson in 'learning to see'. i had a bland image on my monitor, taken when i was quite tired at the end of an excursion with the family. i remembered that i had taken it because of the beautiful curve of the fence posts and the shadow curves of the fence's wire, but there was too much optical garbage clobbering the real subject. so out of a 12.7 MB file i cropped 1.5 MB, the resolution of a 2 year old mobile phone camera...

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