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.

1001 - clear-cut

January 10, 2013 in 35, abstract, architecture, colour, contrast, friedrichshafen, germany, glass, grass, landscape, mirror, nature, nex 7, pattern, plant, reflection, sel, sony, urban

clear-cut - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/60

if urban structures and natural elements converge on the same place, at times interesting contrasts occur. do you go for curves or rectangles?

0801 - leant

January 08, 2013 in 35, bermatingen, bicycle, colour, countryside, field, germany, landscape, nature, nex 7, orange, portrait, sel, sky, sony, sport, sun, sunset, technics, winter

leant - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO800 | 1/60

as often as possible i try to get a breath of fresh air - so why not during a bike ride in sunset? pedalling two hours while being preoccupied in thoughts finally leaves all my cares behind.

1112 - luff

December 11, 2012 in 50, branch, germany, immenstaad, lake, lake constance, landscape, nature, nex 7, sel, snow, sony, texture, tree, water, winter

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO200 | 1/1600

today strong winds were blowing from westerly direction. on the crust of the trees close to the lakeside little snow ridges were banking up.

with today's icy cold the lakeside wasn't a comfortable ambiance.

0812 - defenceless

December 08, 2012 in 8, art, bermatingen, blur, countryside, fisheye, germany, grass, landscape, movement, multilayer, nature, nex 7, partial coloured, plant, snow, sony, spinning, walimex samyang rokinon, winter

sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8mm f2.8| f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/4

are these art or trash, what do you think? unfortunately light wasn't as it ought to be today in the early morning, so that an ordinary landscape shot was no option. so i thought about a way to express the greyness of landscape, the defencelessness of these gracile plants and the circumstance that the already hurt, huge grasses are completely and utterly at the winter's mercy.

sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8mm f2.8| f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/2

only a few of the blades are still standing. the rest is fractured and snapped of. beneath the burden of the heavy, relatively wet snow they are not able to resist.

0412 - shady side

December 04, 2012 in 30, b+w, contrast, gangplank, germany, immenstaad, lake, lake constance, landscape, nature, nex 7, shore, sigma, snow, sony, stone, sun, tree, water, winter

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/640

in times of passages from one season to the other the forces of both usually fight very hard against each other. thereby the opponents conduct war by every trick in the book - providing cover is only one of the applied methods.

cu, trshptr

0312 - rebellion

December 03, 2012 in 50, autumn, b+w, bermatingen, bokeh, candid, germany, high key, leaf, minimalistic, nature, nex 7, pattern, portrait, sel, snow, sony, texture, winter

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

a few parts of autumn haven't understood yet that winter is taking over command currently. they still rebel against snow, ice and cold but either they will be frozen by the relentless winter or buried deeply under the temporary white surface real soon now.

cu, trshptr

2511 - smooth forest

November 25, 2012 in 35, autumn, bermatingen, blur, colour, countryside, forest, fujian, germany, landscape, leaf, nature, nex 7, night, pattern, red, sony, tree, walk, wood

setup: sony nex 7 with fujian 35 f1.7 | 35mm | f1.8 | ISO800 | 1/25 | lightroom 4.2

long walks in the woods ease my mood. every time i go into the forest all the unnecessary information is erased and space for new activities is created.

in my case the recovery of energy from the indefinitely complex nature is tremendous, even if the lights are almost gone already. when the shadows gain the mastery over the whites, all the parts of nature put their shapes down and become softer and smoother. what a great sight!

cu, trshptr

2411 - transition

November 25, 2012 in 30, abandoned, brown, building, deeper meaning, facility, germany, mannheim, nature, nex 7, partial coloured, sigma, sony, street, suburb, townscape, tree, urban, wall, window

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/1000 | lightroom 4.2

after an evening like yesterday's it's always good to face up to the opposite side of the society. while my girls were insensitively shopping in the rhein-neckar-mall of mannheim-viernheim, i had the time to stroll around the blocks. there weren't many coloured dots to find in the middle of the almost brown and partly abandoned environment.

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f8.0 | ISO100 | 1/200 | lightroom 4.2

the transitions there from the occupied areas to the abandoned and inhospitable ones are hard, immediate and obvious. a suburb of mannheim in the year 2012: plain straight.

cu, trshptr

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