0102 - couch berry

February 01, 2013 in 50, colour, face, furniture, germany, home, kitchen, light, mood, nex 7, night, people, personal, portrait, red, sel, shadow, smartphone, sony

couch berry - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f2.0 | ISO1600 | 1/10

a couch potato is characterised by sitting or remaining inactive for most of the day with little or no exercise [wikipedia]. it's not that tina would remind me of a potato, but more of a kind of sweet berry, of course. when you are not in the best of health, you may adapt your behaviours to the usual (german) unemployee.

3101 - fifth season of year

January 31, 2013 in 50, bermatingen, blue, car, carnival, colour, decoration, germany, nex 7, night, orange, pattern, people, sel, sky, sony, street, street lamp, sunrise

fifth season of year - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO400 | 1/25

now time has come again. the fifth season of the year, like people say in germany for carnival, is dawning. all the coloured rags hang across the streets of the small towns and villages again. it won't be long until the party reachs our village bermatingen and instead of three kids on their way to school in the morning, a whole parade with more than 200 crazy, already drunken guys will march through the village. for me this hubbub is a pain in the a***, but of course i respect the people who conduct this tradition year after year. and sure, this too will pass, in the middle of february everything will be over again.

2601 - the fridge

January 27, 2013 in 35, candid, face, germany, indoor, light, mirror, mood, nex 7, night, party, people, personal, portrait, ravensburg, reflection, sel, sony

the fridge - sony nex 7 | sel 35 f1.8 | f2.0 | ISO1600 | 1/320

up to yesterday i didn't know that a fridge can be such a social place. during the evening every guest of my mate dominik's great birthday party availed oneself perceived three to four times with beer and other chilled stuff from the refrigerator. if you had set yourself the goal to meet some new people, you simply had to wait at the fridge for the next thirsty person.

thank you all for the wonderful night.

2501 - love

January 25, 2013 in 50, bird, candid, colour, contrast, friedrichshafen, germany, lake, lake constance, landscape, nex 7, orange, people, portrait, reflection, sel, sky, sony, sun, sunset

love - sony nex 7 | sel 50 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/4000

love is something beautiful. if anybody hasn't ever felt love in any way that poor soul is definitely missing out on one of the most important things in life: receiving the warmth, feeling to be needed and showing behaviours that defy any explanation are only a few facts how and why love is able to drive you crazy. of course, i'm not talking about usual and simple everyday life situations but these rare, very special moments. although i don't know if the couple of my image is together since a week or a decade their wonderful kiss at sunset reminded me of one key factor for a successful relationship:

it should be everybody's utmost duty to maximise the number of these particular moments.

1801 - minor

January 19, 2013 in 35, architecture, b+w, boardwalk, deeper meaning, friedrichshafen, germany, lake, lake constance, minimalistic, monument, nex 7, people, sel, snow, sony, symmetry, water, winter

minor - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/400

currently we are chilled through by the returned winter's cold again. related to the vastness of our lake constance or an unwavering monument at the lakeside humans appear only unimportant and tiny again. additionally the constrained perception of our monochromatic, white surrounding amplifies this effect. that's the way i often look on our world and that hasn't hurt me yet.

1101 - expectations

January 12, 2013 in 35, art, ballet, city hall, colour, friedrichshafen, germany, gold, light, live, nex 7, night, novel, people, public viewing, scenery, sel, sony, street lamp, theatre

expectations - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f2.0 | ISO1600 | 1/60

a large part of the ballet performance of compañía nacional de danza reminded me of one of the most beautiful videos on vimeo: murmuration.

the dancers were correlating almost as good as the thousands of starlings in the video. nevertheless every once in a while the majority of the players came to rest and only the main actors were performing their part of this modern drama.

0701 - reflection

January 07, 2013 in 35, beard, bokeh, deeper meaning, eyes, germany, home, light, mirror, mood, nex 7, night, people, portrait, reflection, sel, self portrait, sony, texture

reflection - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f2.0 | ISO1600 | 1/13

today was a good day. fairly old, pretty good memories appeared and caused a lot of questions in my mind. self-reflection is a process that i've internalised during my trainings, but this is of course way beyond looking at oneself in the mirror - have i changed for the better or the worse since a certain point? highly likely this question has to be answered by others.

any way, today is a very good day.

0501 - open-air hockey

January 06, 2013 in 8, arena, blue, colour, del winter game 2013, fisheye, germany, ice hockey, light, light beam, nex 7, night, nuremberg, open-air, people, red, sony, sport, stadium, walimex samyang rokinon

open-air hockey - sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8mm f2.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/25

the del winter game 2013 in nuremberg made history - it was the biggest league match ever in european ice hockey. at the bottom line almost everything was pretty fine in nuremberg today. besides misty weather and far too little beer stalls there was nothing to worry about, except the tight 4 to 3 loss of the ice bears from berlin against the local ice tigers. but considering the quality of the whole event today this could once be ignored as irrelevant.

50.000 spectators, nevertheless i wondered about the great atmosphere in the stadium: despite the fact that probably a lot of them hadn't been at a hockey game before in their lives and also despite the peculiarity that the distance between the playing surface and the ranks was estimated ten times bigger than in an usual hockey arena, almost all the people were clapping, singing and crying and made for a nice atmosphere.

0101 - too much

January 02, 2013 in 35, architecture, art, b+w, contrast, dinner, eating, germany, indoor, nex 7, pattern, people, restaurant, sel, shadow, sony, symmetry, texture, ueberlingen, vietnamese

too much (for an european) - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/60

although the vietnamese don't celebrate on our new year's day, having a dinner at a great foreign restaurant seems the thing to do. it's not just that you still receive little christmas presents by the vietnamese on the 1st of january: besides the wonderful asian food also the interior and especially the decoration is worth the visit.

i wonder how they may have furnished their living rooms? even if it seems to be a bit too much, at least for a central european: enjoying a delicious dinner in an authentic surrounding - therefore i love the cultural diversity in our new world.

2912 - focus on top

December 30, 2012 in 35, b+w, bermatingen, blur, bokeh, colour, flower, friedrichshafen, germany, light, mirror, nex 7, night, people, purple, reflection, sel, sony, street, sun

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/2000

both manual focusing and autofocus work well with the sony sel 35 f1.8. for the picture above i focused on the solitary flower in the upper middle of the frame. due to the focus peaking feature of the nex system and the butter smooth focus ring manual work is rather a pleasure than a step backwards in history. i really like the atmosphere of this (definitely imperfect) photograph, it might have been captured also at the mediterranean seaside.

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO1250 | 1/60

some hours later cold and rough friedrichshafen got us back. for this street shot i used the autofocus system, applied on the four ladies on the left-hand side of the frame. the chief difficulty in this scene was the fact that what you see in the photograph is actually a scattered reflection of the goings-on in the street, quasi an image of the ceiling of this corridor. despite that issue the autofocus didn't pump and did his work satisfactorily.