had just 5min of stopping by the karl-marx-monument in chemnitz, the second biggest bust portrait in the world. despite the fact, that only the sphynx beats the size of this impressive, socialistic example of architecture, my mate martin seems to be able to shoulder the all the same magnificent and exaggerated sculpture.
hotel life
no daylight for me at the moment.
effect and perception
puddle images.
smoke
in the spotlight.
ride
too wet to go on foot.
parlour atmosphere
gesticulation, a very important way to underline your spoken words.
52mm wild goose
indeed, wild life photography with a 52mm full-frame equivalent is challenging: one has to go low, move slowly and act fast. follow these rules and you will get decent results of photographing any animals, even on a cemetery in the middle of a metropolis like hamburg. to make things even more difficult, i neither fed the geese nor cropped the image...
btw: if you are still not sure about the necessity of a well-executed post-processing - which imho is especially necessary in cases of working under hard conditions (shooting wide opened; foggy, dull scenery; both true today) - you might be interested in the look of the result out of camera; the jpg-file straight from raw, processed in lightroom without any tweaks. it's clearly visible, that not only the white balance is far off the reality, although i intentionally exposed the image to the right. in addition, i put another version, a black and white conversion aside, which for my taste turns up a bit too harsh.
cut riverbank
principally there haven't been many - relevant - changes here in hamburg during the last years. everything feels, as if we haven't been away for such a long time; we still feel at home with the urban environment.
under the door frame
taller by three heads than normal, but despite that these two actors were cheerful and seemed to feel good, when i met them on my way to the toilet in a huge mall in hamburg-altona. their positive mood might have been down to the fact, that their duty was over and they were looking forward to undress the costumes.
working next to the river
one has to work like a horse, the other one is looking forward to his immediately starting harbour tour. usual scene from everyday life, also and especially here in hamburg.