tongue of snow

March 30, 2013 in 35, bermatingen, bokeh, fun, germany, green, nature, nex 7, rain, red, sel, snow, sony, winter, slide

of course, the closing winter wants to have fun for the last time. btw: there are also five new images in the glimpse gallery...

feline football

March 16, 2013 in 35, action, animal, backlight, bermatingen, bokeh, candid, cat, contrast, corridor, fun, germany, green, hair, kitty, light, movement, nex 7, pattern, sel, shadow, sony, street

another street photograph, this day with participation of an animal. saw the flower pot - the abstraction of the net - and the blazing sun light. while looking and focussing through the holes in the bottom of the pot i additionally spotted the red berry, that represents, of course, the ball. finally the crossing kitty as the central figure completed the pretty funny composition.

three flattened seasons

March 14, 2013 in 30, bermatingen, branch, brown, colour, contrast, countryside, germany, nature, nex 7, orange, rural, shadow, sigma, snow, sony, winter, wood, green, spring, autumn, leaf

the circle is almost complete now. in my mind's eye only just a few days have gone since november of 2012 when the first snow and therewith the harbingers of winter arrived in south germany. just unreal, how fast the winter has passed again. as from today the forerunners of spring will spare no effort to chase the weak rests of winter off. on this occasion they are well-advised to put the residues of last autumn away, too.

2001 - helping stake

January 20, 2013 in 35, bermatingen, bokeh, colour, forest, germany, green, high key, nature, nex 7, sel, snow, sony, tree, winter, wire, wood, yellow

helping stake - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/125

out of the white these small trees are growing supported by the helping stakes in the middle of the forest. in some places nature needs our affirming devotion, as well as we are sometimes dependent on a refreshment by the pure and clear mother nature.

3012 - shapes

December 31, 2012 in 35, bermatingen, blue, bokeh, cloud, colour, field, forest, germany, green, landscape, leaf, light, nex 7, red, reflection, sel, sky, sony, sun

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/800

some kinds of images work especially because of their simplicity. despite the lack of peculiarities geometric shapes, colours and textures make for an interesting, stating photograph.

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/500

some other kinds of composition base on the opposite concept - many details, differently structured parts of the frame and harsh contrasts. you may decide what your favourite is, but i don't want to commit myself to one line, at least not for the moment.

2612 - at the centre

December 26, 2012 in 50, christmas, cloud, colour, germany, green, light, markdorf, moon, nex 7, night, pattern, sel, shadow, sky, sony, star, street lamp, winter

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/13

in winter the ordinary street lamps receive temporary support by the incandescent christmas decoration. this makes for a cosy atmosphere, for example in the narrow alleys of historic towns like markdorf. if the moon additionally appears by back-lighting the clouds, your christmas feelings get into top gear again, despite being already on the home stretch.

2312 - happy late summer christmas

December 23, 2012 in 50, animal, colour, dog, germany, grass, green, hair, landscape, light, markdorf, nex 7, portrait, sel, sony, sun, sunset, whiskers, winter, yellow

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f2.0 | ISO100 | 1/200

what is the date today? 23rd? of august? or september? it's unbelievable that we already have end of december and that we had masses of snow and more than ten degrees sub-zero only two weeks ago. today is the day, the day before christmas. almost 16 degrees, a warming sunset and a walk across fresh, humid meadows. we have to like it or lump it - i think kingston has already declared his opinion.

dear readers, i wish all of you cosy and pleasant christmas days. enjoy the free time and dedicate a dose of extra time to your beloved. they will thank you most sincerely with all of their attentiveness.

0612 - fleck

December 07, 2012 in 30, abstract, architecture, cern, contrast, exhibition, geneva, green, light, minimalistic, nex 7, night, partial coloured, pattern, people, sigma, sony, switzerland, trip

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/20

cern is a world-famous, huge laboratory located in geneva, switzerland. more than 10000 guest scientists work on high-energy physics research, their main function is to provide the different particle accelerators. the most famous experiment plant is the lhc, the large hadron collider. unfortunately the testing plants are continuously running till middle of 2013, so that you may not go down to the experiments itself. after the shutdown in summer of 2013 a two-years maintenance period will follow and then visitors might be allowed to have a look at the large tunnel system (lhc is 27 kilometres long) with the detectors.

besides the accelerators cern is the birthplace of internet, cloud computing and different other very useful and meanwhile prevalent things, although all these things were basically used as necessary tools to manage the scientific problems. it is a honour for every scientist to work at one of the great many institutes on the french border. today we had a very detailed behind-the-scenes tour with our department, executed by a retired, former cern researcher from germany.

fundamental research of a topic is as complex and simultaneously as simple as trying to understand each issue in life. many things surface not until later and completely different than expectable and incarnate intangible phenomena. you have to be able to handle this.

0512 - bursting bubbles

December 05, 2012 in 30, blur, bokeh, colour, germany, green, immenstaad, light, macro, nex 7, night, pattern, rain, reflection, retrofocus, sigma, sony, water, window, yellow

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/15

it's fair to say that when you overdo things, everything might become blurred. the crucial point in life is to risk making the necessary break just in time. otherwise the things will become more than blurred.

cu, trshptr

1511 - cascade

November 15, 2012 in 50, autumn, colour, edge, garden, germany, green, hedge, immenstaad, leaf, nature, nex 7, pattern, red, sel, sony, tree

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/400 | lightroom 4.2

if you concentrate on seeing natural patterns in your daily environment, you should surely catch sight of many of them.

they might not always make a good subject for photography if you'd image them in their overall context. but if you handle detaching them from their surrounding and highlighting the peculiarity of your composition, the results will satisfy you very probably. additionally you can try to mix overall patterns with small ones - i especially like this feature in today's photograph of the green, straightly triangle-shaped hedge in association with the wonderfully coloured, patterned leave mass.

cu, trshptr