speedy tub

these days i test almost all the jpg modes, that come along with the nex system, each step-by-step. as anybody knows, working with jpgs is especially appropriate, if you are on the go and cannot draw on a full, powerful pc or laptop. in return you have more time to stroll along the havel in berlin's suburbs, instead of waisting it while post-processing your holiday snaps in the hotel.

i think, that at least as long as i have to work with my (good) old laptop, i will more often rely on the built-in jpg engine when i'm on the road, sometimes combined with an additional filter effect: with the image above i tried the warm toy camera filter.

remorse

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. 

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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.