2211 - closed

November 22, 2012 in 50, architecture, bermatingen, germany, house, light, nex 7, night, sel, sony, street, street lamp, timber-frame, townscape, tree, village, vineyard, window, wine, wine tasting

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/13 | lightroom 4.2

whenever i pass the vineyard of bermatingen i remember the nice wine tasting with our neighbours in spring of 2012. considering that we live in a dedicated wine-growing region, tina and i drink really not a lot of the red or white juice of the grape. theoretically i'd enjoy working up a wine appetite at the local shop by nosing and tasting several sorts of wine.

if i'd only come home earlier more often.

cu, trshptr

1711 - dreisam

November 18, 2012 in 30, art, colour, freiburg, germany, graffiti, nex 7, painting, people, portrait, public transport, rest, sigma, sony, street, street art, suburb, texture, townscape, urban

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/400 | lightroom 4.2

don't know if you have ever had a premonition of what was to come next at some point in your life. today this was the case with me.

unfortunately i wasn't allowed to bring my camera in the concert hall in freiburg where the famous german song writer herbert groenemeyer was performing with his old favs from former times for almost three hours in the evening. already during our journey there i had a vague premonition that my (small) camera bag could make problems and that was how it came that i had to deposit my nex at the wardrobe. despite a bit of initial anger we had a great concert with a lot of songs that weren't played on concerts for a long time.

anyhow, i had already captured a few impressions of freiburg during the afternoon, so that i can compensate the absence of my equipment in the evening for the daily posting with a nice street shot: this guy was waiting, maybe for the bus, on a bridge across the dreisam, the river that crosses freiburg's centre. moreover dreisam is the german word for "in a threesome" and funnily they were three who were waiting side by side.

cu, trshptr

0111 - skate dance

November 01, 2012 in 50, 8, action, contrast, fisheye, fun, germany, greiz, movement, nex 7, people, portrait, sel, shadow, skate, sony, sport, street, vintage, walimex samyang rokinon

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/640 | lightroom 4.2

dancing the skate seems to be easier than it really is. by all appearance you don't have to be keen on sports but at least relaxed and well balanced.

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f4.0 | ISO320 | 1/250 | cornerfix & lightroom 4.2

no matter how high you can jump - your shadow is willing to jump higher. your shadow is your best challenger and opponent.

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f4.0 | ISO1000 | 1/320 | cornerfix & lightroom 4.2

escaping from the depth of the space is not always successful but today it worked. after a lot of photographs with flash that do not satisfy me completely and a few shots against the light for working with the shadows we finally used the frontal light to get some images with a proper exposure, too.

cu, trshptr

2610 - urban food chain

October 26, 2012 in 8, animal, berlin, bokeh, cat, deeper meaning, fisheye, fun, germany, high key, house, mouse, nex 7, sony, street, street art, suburb, texture, urban, walimex samyang rokinon

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f2.8 | ISO320 | 1/60 | lightroom 4.2

the predator.

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f2.8 | ISO250 | 1/60 | lightroom 4.2

the home of the hunted.

cu, trshptr

2210 - gothalona

October 22, 2012 in 30, architecture, barcelona, building, contrast, facility, house, nex 7, pattern, reflection, sigma, sony, spain, street, street lamp, sun, tower, townscape, trip, urban

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/250 | lightroom 4.2

the architecture of the new barcelona remind me of the clear, contrasty and straight environment of gotham city. a lot of new towers were built during the last years mainly directly next to the sea.

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/1600 | lightroom 4.2

the structures and shapes are really stunning whereas i don't like the basic implementation of the townscape design here in barcelona: contrary to for example manchester where all architecture styles are mixed throughout the whole city and this mix of old and new buildings is well-balanced, too, here in barcelona the styles are mainly separated per quarter. that's why as far as i can see the city and especially the new parts appear a bit sterile and misplanned.

nevertheless gothalona is worth the visit if you are a fan of modern shapes and patterns.

cu, trshptr

2110 - way of seeing

October 21, 2012 in 50, abstract, architecture, art, barcelona, contrast, deeper meaning, electricity, light, minimalistic, nex 7, night, sel, sony, spain, street, street lamp, townscape, urban

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/200 | lightroom 4.2

things in life appear in different ways. depending on the way of thinking and especially the relation to an absolute reference good and bad can differ a lot. you by yourselves have to set your own levels.

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f2.8 | ISO200 | 1/80 | silver efex pro for lightroom

nobody is able to speak for you. and nobody else than you knows what is good for you.

btw: both images were shot from the same position with exactly the same angle of view in quick succession. only the exposure settings and the post processing were adjusted in different ways.

can you see the analogy between this and real life?

cu, trshptr

1910 - top view

October 20, 2012 in 30, architecture, bar, barcelona, light, memorial, monument, nex 7, night, restaurant, sigma, sony, spain, square, street, street lamp, townscape, trip, urban

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/25 | lightroom 4.2

urban development is definitely a topic that i could have studied, too. for me it's very interesting to see and investigate the history and structure of cities and towns i visit.

i don't want to go into detail too much, the (german) wikipedia article about the placa reial is very detailed and profound. but one fact is worth to be called: antoni gaudi, one of the most famous architects of spain ever, (who had designed the sagrada familia, the most prominent building of barcelona, you might know it) has also projected the "sheltered lanterns" on this placa reial.

the square that is located next to the world-famous street ramblas, the square where our hotel is directly attached to and the square where we look down from our roof terrace. time to catch a breath and relax.

cu, trshptr

0510 - raw

October 06, 2012 in 8, berlin, colour, contrast, facility, fisheye, friedrichshain, germany, light, nex 7, night, sony, stairs, street, street art, suburb, townscape, urban, walimex samyang rokinon, wall

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/20 | cornerfix & lightroom 4.2

a very special place in berlin is friedrichshain. also if you are the craziest guy all over the world you will not attract too much attention on the street in friedrichshain. a great many of the mostly young people of friedrichshain are very extroverted and make the scene quarter feel a bit strange if not crazy.

moreover an uncountable number of more or less beautiful street arts adorn the streets of friedrichshain. these facts together with the darkness of the night create a bit of an atmosphere of an end time movie, especially in the case that you really enter the dark and moody backyards like for instance the art gallery raw berlin has one attached to its main building where the dark shapes are already waiting for you.

cu, trshptr

2909 - public transportation system scooter

September 29, 2012 in 30, action, blur, genoa, high key, italy, movement, nex 7, panning, partial coloured, pattern, people, portrait, public transport, scooter, sigma, sony, street, townscape, urban

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f10.0 | ISO100 | 1/13 | lightroom 4.1

already at 8am tina and i left the wonderful cottage in liguria. ten totally different days of holidays are now written in our small family history. hard to imagine that i have to go to work in two days again - anyhow some hours of resting are waiting for us.

when we finally arrived at home at 3pm my matriculation documents were already waiting for me in the pillar box. yes, you have this right - during the coming three years from now on i'll be a student again. my course computational engineering - that is provided by the beuth hochschule berlin - will proceed as different distance learning units. i'm very curious and will report every now and then from my study progress.

for now the last photograph from italy is about a very defining element of italian street life - simply everybody aged between 16 and 70 seems to own a scooter. funnily the scooters have the things on the streets firmly under control - they wiggle through all the blocked roads and thereby they scare one or two pedestrians and car drivers, too.

cu, trshptr

1409 - lakeside junk market

September 16, 2012 in 30, action, cloud, friedrichshafen, germany, lake, lake constance, light, market, nex 7, night, people, sigma, sky, sony, street, street lamp, summer, sunset, urban

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/50 | lightroom 4.1

are we really serious about busing to berlin and back within 30 hours? 1600 kilometres in two nights without a bed? tina is already beginning to doubt about the trip. therefor i have to divert her thoughts with dull consumption: let's visit the junk market in friedrichshafen to get tired before our departure to berlin at friday midnight.

flea markets are commonly characterised by a comfortable atmosphere and a very diversified display. special ones like the 24 hours flea market in constance or the lakeside night flea market in friedrichshafen where we have been today in the evening enchant especially with their great and terrific surroundings.

strolling along the lakeside, grubbing for interesting stuff in the display of sellers from apparently everywhere and enjoying the fresh breeze that blows over the lake in midsummer evenings is an intense joy. and it's supposed to be a more intense joy if you are successful with shopping like we were today. and of course it's the most intense pleasure if a (little crazy) trip to our wonderful capital is due.

cu, trshptr