Bloomy monday

Posted on April 7th, 2014

And again, it was a beautiful sunny monday, more or less, but it was warm. The flowers and the trees are beginning to bloom and all around me are twitters, ah I mean birds.
I shoot this flower in my garden and used a speedlight with a cable. The exposure time was short enough to darken the background but the flashlight was bright enough for the flower. Only the flower in the background was to close for the flash.
In this spirit; enjoy the spring and the nature awakening around you!

Spring is coming

Posted on April 6th, 2014

I was near this beatiful landscape and on my way I could see how the mountains are glowing from the deep standing sun. So I was driving further until I saw a nice hill where I could climb up to get a panoramic view.
And oh no! I was to late and the mountains are no more glowing, *sigh* but the view was outstanding anyway. So I took some images before I turned back and gone home for diner, where my wife was already waiting because I was to late…

Northern lights – Swiss version

Posted on April 5th, 2014

Some of you know this image, it’s my profiles background. And maybe you want to know the story behind it.
Once upon a time in Switzerland at a beautiful warm spring day I was hiking to the Graeppelensee. It was the day I had the bad experience with a unexpected snow field, the snow field where I get wet feet! Did I ever mentioned, that I hate wet feet? Okay, I was standing in the snow with wet feet, took some pictures and was angry about the whole situation. At this point the clouds where hiding the moon and the landscape sunk in darkness.
But hey, I had I speedlight with me, no, no Mrs. Nature – not with me! So I could brighten up the foreground, while the background still had moonlight.
And now about the strange light in the sky. These are clouds, brighten up by sodium vapor lamps of all the villages around the mountains. And because the clouds are moving fast and I shoot slow, they smeared to this cool effect.

Churfirsten

Posted on April 4th, 2014

The moonshine was bright, the air was clear and I was on my way back down to the valley. But as I saw this wonderful view to the whole Churfirsten, I stopped again, pulled my camera and tripod out of my backpack und shoot this breathtaking panorama of the full mountain range.
Maybe you remember my visit on the Mountain Selun. You can see it here on the picture, it is the second peak from right.

Geiranger

Posted on April 3rd, 2014

What a sightseeing isn’t it? After I walked the way, you can see it in the picture, up from Geiranger to the Mountain called Dalsnibba on an altitude of nearly 1500m I was still fresh like a spring morning. Okay I didn’t walked up there, you can drive with your car up to the peak…
But the sight is really breathtaking. And can you see the lake deep down in the valley? This is not a lake, this is the sea, it’s the end of the Geirangerfjord with the small village Geiranger, where is about 100km away from the coastline and this is really awesome. The peak is only 1500m high, but you have to start at 0m altitude down in Geiranger.

Atrium

Posted on April 2nd, 2014

The nightly walk through Vienna goes on. This time I can show you the inner part of the Hofburg, if you walking past the Hofreitschule then you come to this atrium. Normally are there a bunch of cars and people, but if you go at night, you can take pictures like nobody is living there. Except the one single car at the back, do you see it?
Anyway, if you are in an interesting city, go for a night walk and see all the places without the tourists, after all I’m not a tourist I’m a photographer

The data spider

Posted on April 1st, 2014

I would like to present you Mrs. Spider. I traped it right when she was reading some paper on my desktop. It is the newest development in spy equipment. Autonomously is it crawl over the datas and send it directly to a receiver outside the building, see all the antennas on the body.
You can use it in difficult compounds and highly observed top secret areas. It can crawl forward and backward too. No balk is any problem. You can order it with the ceiling upgrade and also with the brand new roping option.
This extremly lightweight spy tool fits in every spy budget and it is self reproductible if you order Mr. Spider too.