urban image

March 21, 2013 in 35, action, architecture, art, atmosphere, berlin, building, candid, contrast, colour, corridor, facility, fun, germany, glass, mist, nex 7, orange, people, sel, snow, sony, street, townscape, pattern, trip, urban, wall, window, winter, yellow, red

in berlin nothing is usual. have you ever enjoyed a building site view like the one above?

sunset divers

March 04, 2013 in 50, atmosphere, backlight, candid, boat, contrast, fog, germany, landscape, light, mist, mood, nature, nex 7, orange, people, sel, shadow, sky, sony, sun, sunset, water, lake, lake constance, unteruhldingen, reflection, wave, mirror, minimalistic

although i usually don't take the line of rushing, with my today's posting i'm only scratching the surface for once: what a bike ride (after work), what a weather, what a sight, what a sunset and finally what a day!

madsen's sideshow bassist

February 27, 2013 in 35, atmosphere, b+w, candid, darkness, germany, light, mood, music, nex 7, night, people, portrait, ravensburg, sel, shadow, sony, live, fog, mist, backlight, guitar, contrast

madsen's sideshow guitarist - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/60 — **madsen's sideshow guitarist** - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/60

rockers don't always have to look like these old school rockers.

while the madsen brothers that constitute three quarter of the whole, german indie-rock band madsen, wear their hair pretty short and neat there is this one exception in the composition of the band: niko maurer, the bassist, reminds me of a funny mix of sideshow bob and john travolta.

any way, the show they provided today night, was outstanding and left a big part of the audience - including me - in a jumble of speechlessness and pure joy.

0702 - winter walk

February 07, 2013 in 50, friedrichshafen, germany, house, light, mist, nex 7, night, people, sel, shadow, snow, sony, street lamp, walk, winter

winter walk - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f2.0 | ISO1600 | 1/30

why not spending a ten minutes wait in walking in the returning, misty winter? understandably late in the evening even tina's will to cook is rather small, but fortunately there are a few snack stands in friedrichshafen where we can fetch something for dinner.

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.

1501 - sublight

January 16, 2013 in 35, blue, city hall, colour, concert, contrast, fog, friedrichshafen, germany, light, light beam, live, mist, mood, music, nex 7, night, red, sel, sony

sublight - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/40

the most significant comments below philipp poisel's music videos are definitely the foreign ones: 'i've no f***ing idea what this guy is singing about, but he's freakin' awesome'. see it for yourself and feel free to judge afterwards: without understanding the language, what do you thing, what might he sing about?

3112 - the big burning

January 01, 2013 in 35, alps, colour, fireworks, fog, germany, lake, lake constance, light, light track, long-time exposure, markdorf, mist, moon, nex 7, night, pattern, sel, sky, sony

ladder to the moon - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO200 | 6s

usually i don't work according to the principle of trial and error. however if you want to take a photograph of fireworks, your preparation time is zero and your equipment isn't appropriate, you have to trust your luck and coincidence.

a toast to 2013 - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO200 | 6s

actually i did not have a good basis to shoot a successful image of any of this wonderful money destruction rockets today. besides my nex7 with the sel 35 i had nothing with me to work with, no tripod, no remote release and so on. never mind, let's have a try. steady shot off, search for any bolster, manual settings. go!

the lake is burning - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO200 | 30s

the location couldn't have been better. the view from the local "summit" gehrenberg over the lake is tremendous. and despite the fog and the incineration gases the shapes of the lake itself and the alps were vaguely perceptible.

2111 - disenchanted world

November 21, 2012 in 50, abstract, agriculture, autumn, contrast, decay, field, fog, germany, grain, landscape, markdorf, mist, mood, nature, nex 7, partial chromatic, sel, sony

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/100 | lightroom 4.2

it's incredible how fast the nature changes its appearance in november. two days ago the landscape was barely shining brightly, and several hours after this photograph was taken the mist had already cleared away again. these days our environment often seems to be part of a strange, alien planet's landscape. only a few signs point to the presence of the human race.

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f5.6 | ISO320 | 1/80 | silver efex pro for lightroom

besides the wonderful coloured, falling leaves the late autumn always implicates the decay of the other, non-hardy plants. all the small bushes, tall grasses and flowers die, at least the parts of these plants that were growing and shining at the surface for the whole spring and summer period. anyhow you can cherish a hope that they will appear next spring again.

cu, trshptr

1911 - light saw

November 19, 2012 in 50, autumn, branch, fog, forest, germany, immenstaad, landscape, leaf, light, light beam, mist, nature, nex 7, sel, sony, sun, sunrise, tree, wood

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/125 | lightroom 4.2

today i captured the best photograph so far. on my way to work with the mountain bike i drove along a track that leads to a small t-crossroad in the middle of nowhere. heavy fog narrowed the sight distance to not more than 30 metres. the air was cold, humid and fresh and dew lay on meadows and fields.

just when i headed for the crossroad the fog tore partly open and let a few sun beams pass through the grey curtain. this circumstance made for a three-dimensional stagger of the background and additionally the foreground was gleaming what was due to the illuminated dew. so only fore- and background would have been a great scenery for a dramatic photo but, believe it or not, things got even better: suddenly a throng of round about fifty chattering geese appeared with a farmer in tow. the farmer seemed to herd them onto a new meadow. the whole scenery was completely surreal and i really thought that i'm in the wrong film.

today i captured the best photograph so far, but i captured it only in my mind. i arrived a few seconds too late, so that the animals and the farmer had already passed the perfect spot for a great, candid picture. only a few minutes later all the magic was over and the sun prevailed, at least temporarily. fortunately i decided to stop my bike in the forest some minutes after i'd met the farmer and, anyhow, i took an also nice, if not necessarily extraordinary image.

cu, trshptr

2910 - relationship

October 29, 2012 in 30, autumn, fog, germany, hagnau, lake, lake constance, landscape, mist, nature, nex 7, panorama, personal, portrait, sigma, sony, sun, sunset, tree, walk

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/250 | lightroom 4.2

have i ever told you that i really go for trees? i think so.

trees and humans share many things - both grow up in a couple of years, appear luscious in youth but develop their whole beauty not before middle age. there are different shapes, colours, sizes and origins of both of them. and both the trees and the humans wish for the sun and the warmth and suffer from darkness and cold.

only the mix of all of them (and us) makes for the pure beauty of our world. and i love how trees like the big one of my today's photograph set us humans in relations to unshakeable things on this planet.

cu, trshptr