however much i long for the yearly surf vacations in portugal, that time still seems to be far away down the road. so for today i have to keep my spirit up with an old photograph from last year, although the shown is not quite to my taste.
blur of colour
late shift
the panorama mode is a well-working feature of the sony nex system, that i use from time to time, but have just shown one time on the blog. i like the results especially with the 50mm view.
while i was enjoying my evening bike ride, the farmers still had to bring in the harvest. not quite an easy job...
harvesting lines
and suddenly all the corn is gone again. let's hope, that this event doesn't point to an equally abrupt end of the heat wave.
red giant
in the spotlight
what are friends for? gossip, beer and great mountainbike rides through dark forests, across steep ascents and back down into the valleys.
aesthetics of decay
i don't recall, how often my beloved banana plant was supposed to be dead and gone, if tina had had her way. but fortunately i got my demand accepted, so that the slightly decayed plant is able to recover outside in the summer heat. its desire to live is sensible - it folds up its leafs to effectively collect the evening sun rays.
shootout
funnily enough, my new neighbour is also interested in photography. although he owns an older olympus model, the aged body is used with decent lenes, f.e. the zuiko 45 f1.8. i don't know, if this combination gave him an advantage over me in the shown scene, but i providently decided to compensate my handicap in focal length (which is due to the different crop factors) by cropping my shot in post-processing. apart from that you once again see an ooc high contrast b/w jpg.
unbounded
no borders in space, no ceiling above. who wouldn't change parts with a stork at least temporarily? i for one would really like to float like a bird across the pyrenees down to madrid before the cold season finds its way into europe, even though i don't see me living on a spanish rubbish dump, like the many storks from lake constance do each winter.