despite being born two generations after the second world war, i still feel remorseful for the atrocities of the (mainly german) nazi regime. recall the past for example at the commonwealth war graves commission cemetery, if you will be in berlin at some point.
escape from rain
as you might still know from your own experience, the youth has anything on the brain, except the educational duties. so yesterday suddenly a really challenging photographic homework, that had to be done till monday, came into marv's mind. his task was to take three different pictures of motion: both background and object sharply rendered (freezing); background sharp, object blurred (motion blur) and background blurred, object sharp (panning). since he had to deliver printed samples, we decided to shoot in high contract b/w jpg mode and print the pictures directly from sd card at the end of the day.
accordingly, what you see above, is my humble support for his graduation, of course sooc.
if i were a bird
... i'd always try to strike pedestrians and cyclists with my p**. all the same the humans tend to fire us birds at pigs and towers.
high water
it won't be long until all the boats will be fallen out of the basin. a lot of rain and melt water make for an almost historic high. additionally a bunch of organic waste has massed between the boats, which are lashed down extra firmly at the moment.
over the hill
hopefully the worst part of the recent, baddish weather period is over now again. probably not only the farmers wish for the sun instead of another rainy and dull week.
ease of mind
well, actually kingston isn't a calm dog. he's rather full of energy and impulse, a keen fellow! sitting and waiting in the 'dogoscopic' - ... dogs tend to disappear in the woods like water in sulphuric acid and so he often does ... - forest is an exhausting task for him, so i necessarily had to photograph this rare, peaceful and adjusted scenery and document it to posterity.
tears of a rose
bloom.
brightness.
ephemerality.
e-tron
shape and design of the backlights of my friend's porsche boxster s remind me of e-tron, the marketing name of the audi r18, that is leading the field in le mans since already more than 9 hours now. what a performance! despite being completely different, both brands belong to one huge concern, the volkswagen empire.
image optimisation machine
yesterday samsung announced a couple of new products, including the galaxy nx camera and the galaxy s4 zoom mobile phone. it's good to see completely new, innovative products on the market, although these two aren't very appealing to me.
however my interests were concentrated on the samsung ativ book 9 plus, which will be the successor of the series 9 ultrabook class. it's the device i've waited for a very long time:
screen - 13.3 inches, 3200*1800 pixels, 275 ppi
performance - core i5 or i7, 4 or 8gb ram, newest intel haswell technology
mobility - battery life up to 12 hours, 3.1 pounds, 12*8.7*0.53 inches
after more than six years of daily work my good old laptop is going to step back into the second row real soon now. and in the course of this i'll switch over to lightroom version 5, too.
purple fox gloves
unfortunately i didn't find the time to care about photography today, so that i have to get along with a picture of the well-dressed tina from a last weekend's birthday party.
actually much more than better than nothing.