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.

birthday ice

March 15, 2013 in 35, art, b+w, bermatingen, bokeh, candid, contrast, countryside, darkness, deeper meaning, germany, fun, grain, light, minimalistic, nature, nex 7, night, pattern, sel, shadow, sony, tree, winter, wood

do you still remember cloud spotting? while i was just searching the web for some information about this dreamy, childish activity, i stumbled upon an pretty funny startup, that deals with exactly this topic. depending on how one looks at it, i took part in the (desired) community today, although i dealt with ice instead of condensate, so to say with another phase of matter:

i for one went in for ice spotting. on my way home from a late afternoon walk i had kicked the above-shown piece of ice already two to three times, before i noticed its special structure after all. well, i must admit, that the iced character is not quite self-explaining, but if you use your imagination in full strength, you might see a figure '1' (with a little kink). for me it wasn't a coincidence, that i discovered the '1' (okay, maybe i wanted to see it):

“today dybydy-phtgrphy has its first anniversary.”

yes, i'm a bit proud, but mainly amazed, how fast the time has gone. to be honest, there will be no dedicated flashbacks, summaries or canny answers at this place. therefor i'm far from being fed up with photography; additionally forward-looking seems to be more productive than summing things up every x steps. in my humble opinion my learning curve is still going up, on some points more, on some less. be sure, i'm going to work on my skills, with passion, fun and dedication.

at this point two more facts: although this blog is first of all a project of and especially for me, i want to thank each and every one of you, who reads, shares, comments on and delights in my images. almost 50k hits were counted during the last year... wow! and finally i want to renew my declaration of love to my camera: after more than ten months of daily usage, i can see, that

“for the present the sony nex 7 is my ideal daily companion.”

did you like the first year of dybydy-phtgrphy? and how about cloud spotting?

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.

sleet curtain

March 13, 2013 in 50, architecture, atmosphere, bermatingen, blur, bokeh, brown, building, door, facility, germany, nex 7, pattern, sel, snow, sony, street, townscape, wall, window, winter, wood, rain, timber-frame, countryside, rural

whilst my recent favourite airport frankfurt in the heart of germany is descending into snow and chaos, we will probably get not more than a bit of nasty, wet weather here at lake constance. at least another, highly likely final, opportunity for me to portray the rural appearance of bermatingen's townscape in a winterly atmosphere.

dark corner

March 12, 2013 in 50, architecture, b+w, building, corridor, darkness, facility, grain, mood, nex 7, night, old photo, ruin, sel, shadow, sony, street, townscape, trip, urban, wall, window, portugal, lisbon

at the moment i prepare for my trip to berlin next week. needless to say that besides the actual planning of the main - the day - activities, what is, of course, the most important and time-consuming issue of preparation this week, i already long for the dark side of berlin in my spare time.

let's see how many of the daily 24 hours will be left for wandering about the townscape. till then i delight in a so far not shown street shot from the dark suburbs of lisbon.

kitchen nook

March 12, 2013 in 8, action, architecture, atmosphere, colour, darkness, dinner, fisheye, germany, home, indoors, kitchen, light, nex 7, old photo, orange, people, personal, portrait, sony, vintage, walimex samyang rokinon, wash, vegetables

this is the functional part of our kitchen. the room per se is very large, but most of the time the action takes place in the shown corner. to make matters worse, there is a guy who - instead of helping the chef - runs around with his camera all the time... well, who might that be?

earth & human - oneWay?

March 10, 2013 in 8, art, b+w, bermatingen, clouds, contrast, darkness, deeper meaning, field, fisheye, germany, fun, grain, landscape, light, minimalistic, nature, nex 7, people, shadow, sky, sony, walimex samyang rokinon, flower

do we go the right, correct, aligned and indulgent way? this one way, that is mandatory if you want to venerate your counterpart? or is it a one-way, a non-returnable relationship between mankind and nature?

the image, i show you today, displays the status quo, how i perceive the current evolution. nature is present, we see it, sometimes. but nature is more than that - it is the centre and basis of everything. we consist of nature and we'll be morphed into nature again, anytime. but what does the mankind do? the humans tramp on the nature's beauty and overuse its precious regenerative properties.

this being the case, i admit, with my graphical representation of the cooperation between mankind and home planet i look a bit at the black side, whereas this portrayal intentionally makes a very pessimistic, alarming image.

if you are interested in the scenery - how i discovered the scene - by clicking here you will be guided to the two stops underexposed, non-processed jpg from raw and by clicking here you will see a non-graphical, classic interpretation of the scene. pretty boring, isn't it?

swiss traveller

March 10, 2013 in 35, atmosphere, b+w, candid, contrast, darkness, germany, grain, nex 7, night, old photo, people, portrait, sel, sepia, shadow, sony, street, townscape, trip, urban, railstation, friedrichshafen

sometimes travelling people show unusual modes of behaviours. the man in the centre of my today's image carried a very heavy case, which, to his sorrow, had to be hefted upstairs on the platform to reach the trains.

after tina had drawn my attention to his troublesome ascent, i asked him if i can help... he answered with a swiss accent and without even looking at me that it's no problem for him to carry his case by himself. ok, whatever. although i won't go as far as tina, who presumed with a bit of black humour, that he probably carried any parts of dead bodies in his case - hopefully not! - i think, that his autarky has to do with either his attitude towards germany / germans or lived independence in old age.

however that be, i took to him.

fun ride

March 09, 2013 in 50, action, car, facility, fun, germany, nature, nex 7, old photo, people, sel, sepia, sony, street, urban, vintage, water, brown, colour, mtb, bicycle, mud, markdorf, wash

although today's story isn't about a separate business - like the title may suggest - we had to make use of one at the end of two hours of unresisted bathing in deep mud. at this season it is a common procedure that all the local (mountain) bikers wash their bicycles in the car wash in markdorf. this being the case, we didn't attract any attention yesterday, even though our heavily speckled appearance should have been extraordinary enough...

frizzled

March 07, 2013 in 35, architecture, art, b+w, building, facility, germany, grain, monument, nature, nex 7, old photo, pattern, sel, sepia, shadow, sony, tree, window, salem, branch, wall

the castle garden of salem is a jewel in southern baden's cultural landscape. ancient architecture comes upon aged nature. in the scene above i especially liked the repetitive frizzles of the branches and the decoratively painted window frames.