2301 - welcome hour

January 23, 2013 in 30, alps, blue, colour, facility, factory, fog, germany, immenstaad, lake, lake constance, light, mist, nex 7, night, sigma, snow, sony, winter

welcome hour - sony nex 7 | sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/20

after two annoying days of illness i'm finally back to work. fortunately the company area received me with open arms again: a wonderful view over the lake and the alps during the blue hour motivated me for the whole of the day.

3108 - home time

August 31, 2012 in 50, abandoned, architecture, blue, building, colour, facility, factory, germany, glass, light, long-time exposure, markdorf, nex 7, night, pattern, red, sel, sony, window

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f13.0 | ISO100 | 5s | tripod | lightroom 4.1

finally it's home time. tomorrow we'll visit the local rock music festival in constance which will take up our whole day and night. the weather forecasts are very bad, it'll probably rain the whole time. so what? we'll be prepared. unfortunately the camera has to stay at home for that reason.

also the last employees had already left the offices when i took the night shot of an interesting facility in markdorf. maybe tomorrow there will be some of them among the 25.000 visitors.

cu, trshptr

1804 - time has stopped

April 18, 2012 in 18-55, 400d, abandoned, architecture, brown, building, canon, decay, eos, factory, stairs, suburb, urban, zeulenroda

setup: canon eos 400d with efs 18-55mm | 18mm | f8.0 | ISO100 | 1/160 | aperture priority | raw files cropped, aligned and processed in lightroom 4

... in east germany.

like i said yesterday we unfortunately had to give an immediate family member to tina's grandma. ria, as tina's grandmother is called, lives in thuringia close to the town zeulenroda with her husband guenther and her dog lea. because tina and i want to support zizou during her acclimatization here in thuringia, we'll stay at grandma's home until friday. besides fitful sleep this circumstance means that i'll have the opportunity to shoot some decay-tinted pics in the rustic area of the former gdr.

i've really turned the kind of today's photo over in my mind. should i publish a espacially brutal and negativ photo of a destroyed factory that you can find here at every turn? or shall i take a pic that shows the great boom of the last twenty years? i decided to pursue the middle course. on the pic above you can see an old disused building of the former government enterprise wema, what is a german abbreviation for tool machinery factory. as you know the german democratic republic was an almost complete closed economy. that's why a great many of companies had to be closed in the course of the german reunification, the so called turnaround in 1990.

as part of the omission of the gdr four to five years after the turnaround the wema broke away, too. the clock on the front of the wema building seems to act out of spite - it has stopped years ago.

cu, trshptr

0604 - not left out in the rain

April 06, 2012 in 18-55, 400d, architecture, b+w, building, canon, colour, contrast, door, eos, factory, germany, green, mood, partial chromatic, partial coloured, pattern, smoker, smokers´ corner, yellow

setup: canon eos 400d with efs 18-55mm | 22mm | f7.1 | ISO200 | 1/80 | aperture priority | raw file cropped, aligned and processed in lightroom 4

easter. holiday. time off work. time to receive a visit. family time.

what in return means that i´m running low on time for my posting. never forget - disregard the text before the photo.

that´s how it should be. be a sport and construct the story by reading the tags and studying the picture. thx.

cu tomorrow, spending more time with you, trshptr

2403 - industrial gene

March 25, 2012 in 18-55, 400d, b+w, building, canon, decay, eos, factory, fire escape, house, manchester, suburb

setup: canon eos 400d with efs 18-55mm | 18mm | f5.0 | ISO400 | 1/100 | aperture priority | jpg out of camera

summarizing i can fortunately say that all my expectations about manchester were not only fulfilled but rather exceeded. manchester is truthful, vivid, rocking, hearty, old but innovative and a lot more.

its industrial characteristic was very impressive. i thought about bricks and fire escapes but i didn´t expect it in this great measure. the picture above is ooc, i love its poster like high contrast look.

1903 - power failure

March 19, 2012 in 18-55, 400d, building, canon, electricity, eos, factory, fuse, germany, lake constance, rust

setup: canon eos 400d with efs 18-55mm | 30mm | f4.0 | ISO800 | 1/6 | aperture priority | cropped, aligned and processed in rawtherapee

on the way home from todays work i stopped at an old factory that i had discovered some days ago. i love architecture, i love nature, but both in compound i love most. thatswhy old collapsed buildings marked by the laws of nature fascinate me.

Afterwards i parked my car not far away from the building at a small street i had to chop through some fields of apple trees to reach the factory. the provisional fence was no problem for me.

unfortunately today the light was not nearly as bright as yesterday. So my good old - temorarily used - canon reached its high iso limits already at iso800. even if i usually require a little more support of my equipment today in the evening some suitable photos appeared.

i found this old destroyed fuse box in an almost complete collapsed outbuilding. indeed the image noise cannot be overlooked the overall quality is not that bad. nevertheless i´m happily looking forward my birthday when this project blog finally and officially will be activated with the purchase of a sony nex x. x={5N,7}.

enjoy electricity free time without any fuses after reading that posting.

cu, trshptr