A green alien

Posted on Dezember 10th, 2013

One day, while I was in the kitchen for lunch cooking, I was watching outside and saw that small little guy sitting on a pale of my fence. Hurry up, catch my camera, mounting the tripod and go outside for a photo session. Set the camera as near as possible for the biggest shot I can get of this small green grasshopper. It was only about 2cm (1 inch) long. First shot is okay, but now I want to go closer with my Raynox macro adapter mounted in front of my macro lens. But what’s going on? The small dude is camera-shy and can’t sit still anymore, ARGH! So I can’t show you no closeup of its eyes.

Mountain shadow

Posted on Dezember 9th, 2013

It was on my first night tour in the mountains. I was driving by car an walking only few steps, unlike in these days. I took it easy and lazy  and year by year I am going farther and farther.
But on this night I was driving over the Schwaegalp and shoot some images and after that I was driving into the Toggenburg where I shoot my image of the Saentis where you find some pictures below this. The yellow glow in the center is however the light pollution of the cities. And not every time, like in this picture, is it a bad part. It gives the image a nice color contrast, which I like it. And the shadow in the foreground comes from the mount Saentis himself, while the moon is rising.
This image is stacked from 8 shots by 15s each with 800ISO.

Wiener Hofburg

Posted on Dezember 6th, 2013

Two years ago my wife booked tickets for a circus in Vienna. Unfortunately the circus was going bankrupt and our money for the circus was lost. And the booked flights and the hotel room was payed too. Hmmm, no circus but we can go for a visit in Vienna, in December when the sky is gray and the air is cold. But hey, I can get some pictures with my new 5DmkII. This first image of my Vienna series was shot at 11 o’clock and that’s good. Or did you ever have seen Vienna without people? I had! At late sunday night On the image you can see the Vienna Hofburg on the left part is the spanish riding school, the entrance is under the large gate in the image center. I took this image as a bracket series of 3 images.

Glowing clouds

Posted on Dezember 5th, 2013

I had to go three times to this place, near Tschappina, until I could get a nightshot where I can see stars, but this is another story. For this image I couldn’t shot my image by myself. My friend Stefan had to do that for me, I couldn’t press the shutter. Why? I was lying in the wet snow by the hut, with a flashlight in my hands and tried to illuminate the hut equally as possible.
This picture was made by 12 shots for noise reduction stacking. It was a moonless night, so I had to go up to 3200ISO and even with a 5DmkII you’ll have a lot of noise in the images.
But watch the result, I believe it speaks for it self.

The way home

Posted on Dezember 4th, 2013

One day in an autumn evening I was driving home and took a glance in my back mirror. And what can I see? An awesome sunset. I must have looked like the comic figures with that swelling eyes. And like ever; no camera with me! So drove home as fast as possible, grabed my camera and drove back, in right time to catch the sunset.
And now we can enjoy the amazing light scene, which these car drivers had on their way home.

Thank you

Posted on Dezember 3rd, 2013

My master said, I should thank you for all your wishes, comments and pluses to my birthday. So I addict this rose to all the people who congratulated me to my birthday.
I personaly think this rose is nothing worth, I can’t eat it. But I will not share my sausage with you. I eat it by myself – wuff!

sincerely yours
Bubu

Happy Birthday Bubu!

Posted on Dezember 2nd, 2013

Our small little dog has his 4th birthday. At this place I would like to wish him a very pleasant day, a really big sausage (which indeed he will become later :)) and a long healthy life!
Sometimes he makes us so angry, when he doesn’t hear us, if we call him. Sometimes I’m asking myself, why he has to dig for mice all the time, when he never ever even catched one. After his digging job he is so dirty, I have to get him a shower, which he likes so much. And then you can give him so much fun and vitality with his so loved pink ball. He can hunt this ball for hours, until he finds the next mouse hole, then he has forgotten his toy…
But over all, we love him so much and we will thank him to get us so much pleasure in our life.
Happy Birthday Amadeo!

Bryggen

Posted on Dezember 1st, 2013

If you like rain and if you want to spend your holydays on a place with a high change to get wet. So choose Bergen in Norway, it’s the city with the most rainy days in Europe. But if you go to Bergen regardless, you will be requited by a wunderful architecture small alleys on the beautiful old wooden houses of Bryggen. After to giant fires and two times rebuild in ancient construction you can admire this UNESCO world Heritage.

Castle Wolfenstein

Posted on November 30th, 2013

To take this shot we had to walk through a dark forest crossing a cemetery in the middle of the night. Only the moonlight brighten up the dark wood. There where strange noises around us, but we are going forward and fightend us to the dark wilderness until we reached the clearance in the middle of this ancient forest. Now we didn’t hear any noises anymore, it looks that even the animals left this dangerous place.
But as brave photographers as we are, we didn’t give up. We crawled through the mud to a small bush where we can hide us for our photoshooting. This castle looks suspicious like the infamous Castle Wolfenstein. Who knows what’s going on there and look at the strange packages in the front. Better not think about it…
Know we had to concentrate us for our job. Build the tripods, setup up the cameras, is the focus correct, what f-stop I should use and what is the shutter speed? Now press the trigger, argh, the shutter is so loud… but yes it fits! It’s looking good we’ve done it!
Then I packed my gear together turned me around and left Schloss Hegi  by walking across the street to my car and drove home.

The moon in the red sky

Posted on November 29th, 2013

I was walking home and it was nearly dark, because I did some macro shots with my macro lens, as the sky begans to glow. Wow, I hadn’t this seen so often, a sky so nicely red and the best, the moon was in sight. But I had only my 100mm macro lens with me. I couldn’t zoom, so I have to take the mood with the tools I had. I was walking around forward and backward, until I was in the position to get the moon with tree on the same picture. I don’t know, which other shots I took with the macro lens on that day, but this Image beats them all, I love this one. I hope you enjoy it the same way, like I do when I see this image – each time!