How’s everything begun
Posted on Januar 4th, 2014
After I saw some breathtaking night images, not the everyone known noisy images, no some very clean colorful starscapes, I was infected. This is what I want to do. Unfortunately nobody knows how to take this kind of images, because the guy doesn’t tell anyone how to do this.
That makes me curious and my ambition was awoken. I was made some experiments and going out nightly and I found a way to make better nightshots. Now it was time to improve the technique. After I had more knowledge I was going to more interesting landscapes, like mountains. I was testing other hardware, bodies and lenses. Until it was possible to me, to make night photos in the best possible quality I known.
But this image is the very first shot a took it. It was a bright cloudless full moon night. I shot 24 images for this picture, but I used only 8 of them for this work. It’s amazing what I can do know, after so much learning of post processing in the last few years.
St. Peters Church
Posted on Januar 3rd, 2014
Some weeks ago, I showed you the same church from the inner part. Now I have a nightshot of the outside view for you. It was at my last stay in Vienna short before christmas. That’s the reason for the big light in the upper left corner. I took this shot during my nightly photowalk through the old part of the city. You know how many people there are during the day, stressed for the last gifts for christmas? You can’t get a nice shot of the city without hunderts of people on the image, but going at night, especially on sunday night…
This is a HDR image made of 3 images bracket series, with Photomatix, Photoshop, Topaz Adjust and Lightroom.
Huettwilersee
Posted on Januar 2nd, 2014
After all these rainy and foggy days without snow, at least in our region, I need a view to more sun. It’s not the hot summer day, but a more friendly late winter day. It was a nice walk around this small lake and I could get some images.
Each time I was walking without a camera on me and see some phantastic lightings, I think to me, why I didn’t took the cam with me and my wife, on the other side, is pleased to see me without a lens.
The moon clock
Posted on Januar 1st, 2014
Something’s wrong with the clock on the picture. I can see the shadow of the bar, but it doesn’t show the right time. I rechecked it with the EXIF datas, but I can’t help me, the shown time is wrong.
Maybe it’s because the earth axis has moved or the global warming is the reason. Probably the medieval people couldn’t build exactly working watches, yes this must be the solution. We here in modern times have more knowledge and wisdom. Well good to living in the most important watch building country, Switzerland!
The knowledge about time was placed in my cradle.
A happy New Year
Posted on Dezember 31st, 2013
I wish all my faithful reader a happy New Year! May all your wishes come true in 2014.
Take this path and let you lead in a savety an peaceful 2014 with lots more beautiful photos. I see you all in the next year, that means tomorrow.
And as I promissed you yesterday, I show you a winter image where you can recognize the winter, as a winter has to be 
Is it winter or not?
Posted on Dezember 30th, 2013
Sigh, all year the same here. It’s cold outside, the sky’s grey the paths are swampy and the whole day is it not really bright outside. I mean, okay, this December wasn’t that bad, but it would be much better when we’ve got snow outside. How much brighter and more friendly would it be with snow, isn’t it?
I can’t resist to go to the mountains within the next days to see a sunny, cold, white winter day, with the sun shining down on me! Well, for all other people without this option, I will show you some nice images, when I am back. But for the moment I can only show you some frozen fog at the frame of the leafs.
Or would you more like to see a nice winter landscape? Tell me what do you think
Fog on the lens
Posted on Dezember 29th, 2013
Two years ago, I bought an Astrotrac for making deepsky images. Huh, what’s that? Okay, it’s not so difficult. If you want to make some photos of the stars, then it’s the best if you can hold your shutter open as long as possible, because the stars are so small and less brighter than the sun. Unfortunately, for this kind of photos, the Earth ist spinning along her axis. You can use this to make some funny startrails, if you want, but I don’t.
Now I took the Astrotrac to hold the spin, virtually not in real :). It will turn your camera exactly with the same speed like the Earth is spinning, so you can make photos with very long exposure, in theory, but that is another story.
On this night, the first night we’ve got no moon and no clouds, I want to test my new toy, but the images were all so blurred. My camera must be broken, I thought to me, until I realised the upcoming fog which made my lens wet like rain. So I couldn’t make some deepsky images, but took this moody photo of the disturbing fog. And the reason because I make the most night images in the alps, the immens light pollution at the horizon.
Moonrise
Posted on Dezember 28th, 2013
On my first night tour in the Toggenburg region, I could see the moon rising over the ridge of the Saentis. It was a bright and clear full moon night, so I was surprised to see a bit of the milky way on my photo. Only a bit but anyhow…
This image was processed out of 19 shots. 14 images to reduce the noise and another five images to brighten up the foreground.
Wet feet
Posted on Dezember 27th, 2013
It was at a sunny, warm day in April. My friend and I had our typical itchy feeling in our index fingers, time to go for a nightly photowalk! Our destination was the Gräpplensee in the Toggenburg region. After a steep walking in a dark forest, a strange thing happend; we arrived a large snow field between the trees. Because it was warm I was wearing my normally walking shoes, so I was gliding around while I was walking upwards. It costs a lot of power to go up. But the worst part was coming, after we reached the ridge.
Our destination the lake was in a small valley and to get there we had to walk down in the snow, sinking deeply into the snow at every step, until the knees. And all the snow was gliding in my shoes and under my feet. I hate wet feet!
And after we were down at the lake, we didn’t saw it, because it was still under thick layer of ice. And last but not least, there were clouds coming up. Sigh! But after the first test shots, while I was very frustrated, I got this image. Look at this, what a great mood! Because of the clouds, the stars are getting larger and more glowing, how beautiful!
And the conclusion of this; I will never more go for a walk without good hiking shoes and spats. Did I mentioned; I hate wet feet!
The shy bumblebees
Posted on Dezember 26th, 2013
In the spring I saw a lot of bumblebees, busy collecting nectar. They are alle over the meadows and buzzing around. I thought, if there are so many of these fluffy insects, I should go for a photowalk to catch some of them.
But hell, I saw a lot of these little beasts, but they do not want to get pictured! Everytime I was neer, they flown away or moved around. It was so hard to get only one image without blur. At the end short before I would go back home, I saw this fellow. Allways it was turning away from me behind the grass blade, I changed my position, it changed the position too. ARGH! But at the end when it was pissing off, I catched em from behind like a speed camera.
