when it comes to taking farewell of your beloved a nice dinner in intimate togetherness seems to be a suitable approach. for us this is a common ritual: there are a lot of laughters but also a few tears which are mostly smiled away, fortunately.
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1302 - tunein
today in the afternoon i got wind of another 20 bands of the rock am ring music festival in june. believe it or not, the one and only crossover god limp bizkit and the famous and simply great german hiphop band blumentopf were announced. good news and also a proper reason to tune into the current rock am ring spotify playlists again.
1202 - life delta
life delta - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO1600 | 1/60
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seeing the beauty in simplicity is the high art of life that should be mastered by everybody at least once in a while. if there should be even somebody who is able to master this task constantly, time after time, imo this someone has also mastered life itself. someone like this has coped the sorting of all the little deltas of / in life and has already developed a master plan to handle one of the most difficult aspects in life after all.
1102 - scoops of ice
scoops of ice - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/100
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not all scoops of ice are that delicious. in return these pretty uneatable ice balls look all the more nicer. you see the again freezing, just from the icicles escaped defrost water in its natural, wonderfully coloured catch basin.
1002 - h2o
h2o - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/1000
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the most valuable treasure (not only) of the region around our current home is the water. h2o. 70 percent of the households receive their drinking water from the lake. the lake itself with its crystal clear water attracts thousands of tourists every year, and so on, and so on... the majority of the people has realised this fact now. on honour of this occasion a modern memorial was built and raised in sipplingen, directly next to the lake.
0902 - grain skin
grain skin - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO6400 | 1/15
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today i finally decided to make the next small (fun-) step in my photographic life - before the production of 35mm film will be completely discontinued anytime, i'm going to have at least one try with analog photography even this spring. therefor i ordered one role ilford delta 3200 Professional (b+w), kodak portra 800 (colour) and fujifilm superia 1600 (colour) each.
why such sensitive films? well, i want to begin (and probably stay) with a ultra-compact fun cam, something like a diana mini or any other lomography camera, since it has to accompany me to music festivals and other chaotic events where the nex usually has no place in. naturally you have to use high iso films if you want to shoot these lomo cams (fixed plastic lens, (almost) fixed, slow f-stop - f8/f11 switch, fixed shutter speed - 1/60) at dusk. although i definitely expect not less than blurred, grainy, absolutely poor exposed results of my coming lomo cam, i'm able to look forward to work with film. expectations can only be belied if they are exaggerated. actually i have only one expectation: with at a max 36 images on a role you have to think long and hard about your composition, which is why i hope to improve my photographic skills further.
with the intention to give high iso film a try sometime, i avoided to apply noise reduction to my self portrait already today. what you see is my grainy face in the double window of our kitchen with the idyllic, nightly yard in winter dress in the background.
0802 - snow streaks
| snow streaks - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/4 |
as one might expect particles, light and movement form interesting streaks in the eye of the beholder and of course this circumstance works also in nature.
| awhirl - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/4 |
if in the case of a nightly car drive in a snow storm also the background contains a minimum of texture the drawn winter image should be really expressive.
0702 - winter walk
winter walk - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f2.0 | ISO1600 | 1/30
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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.
0602 - awakening
| awakening - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO1600 | 1/25 |
as stated elsewhere i've already expressed my surprise about the chosen colouration of the two new auxiliary buildings of friedrichshafen hospital and like to renew this statement: for whatever reason the medical centre for the resident doctors with attached psychiatry was designed in bright colours, whereas the also new mother-child centre is coated in olive. for me this is hardly to understand.
0502 - storm
storm - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f11.0 | ISO100 | 1/8
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i always wanted to compose and process a copper engraving like image of our wonderful lake, the bodensee. today the time had come. there was really strong wind, gusting over 30km/h. so on the one hand all the soft components of an image were supposed to be definitely blurred when captured with a longer exposure time, on the other hand the alps were clearly visible on the horizon because of the consistent west wind. and finally due to the built-in stabiliser of the sel 35 i was able to work without a tripod in the course of a short stop at the lakeside.