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Author: solaner
I'm a passionate photographer and like traveling. Follow my footprints through the world.
Monochrome Monday 7-38
Under normal circumstances, I probably would have been on Helgoland last week and this post might have been entitled with “I’m back …”. Unfortunately, that’s currently not possible and, to be honest, not suitable. During the pandemic, everyone should travel as little as possible.
Instead, I picked my swap disk containing my backlog of undeveloped images. One folder on that disk contains a couple of folders with images taken during quite larger trips. One of the oldest folders on that disk contains the images taken 5 years ago on Helgoland. So, I transferred them to my computer again and started developing them. In the past, I already developed some of the images. Maybe 20 or 30.
My plan is, to have the images developed by mid-February this year!
The image above is taken on day 1 on the island when we were on our first trip to the seals. Suddenly, a snowstorm started and snow was collected by the stones laying on the beach.
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Lens-Artists Photo Challange 132: “striped & checked”
Ok, this one is really hard, Ann-Christine. First, I assumed I’d have to give up this time. The only striped thing in my archive coming to my mind were cats.
But, fortunately, I found at least a few things.
brave the storm
today, 10 years ago Ten years ago I was on Helgoland for the first time. It’s an island located in the North Sea, quite remote. It takes about 2 …
brave the storm
Throwback Thursday: walk the dog
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Wordless Wednesday: too heavy?
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Travel Tuesday: narrow road
… in Scotland with contraflow. How much fun!
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Monochrome Monday 7-37
Hooray or Hands up? Not, sure
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Lens-Artists Photo Challange 131: “emotions”
Today, Patti gave us a hard topic for LAPC: Emotions!
This is a mixture of model, engagement, wedding, concert, event, street, travel, and still-live photography. Enjoy!
still untouched
More of my images can be seen on my own blog.
still untouched
Throwback Thursday: red kite after a successful hunt
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Wordless Wednesday: white wagtail
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Travel Tuesday: splash
We got this quite often, while driving around on the Isle of Skye. Fortunately, we only get soaking wet once and were able to do every trip we had planned.
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Monochrome Monday 7-36
Snow! Because of the pandemic, traveling is currently not possible. So, no skiing vacation in Austria, Switzerland or Bavaria. Instead, people try to go to the Eifel (an average mountainous region near the Belgium border) or the Sauerland (an average mountainous region in the middle of North-Rhine Westphalia with hills up to 800 meters). Both regions would be reachable among an hour’s drive and attracting skiing tourists in ‘normal’ winters. But, everything is closed there, too. Why should I go there? Personally, I don’t ever go on a winter sports trip. But, many, many people are going despite the skiing tracks, the ski lifts, the restaurants, the toilets and even the parking lots are closed. Why do they go???? The TV news reported about people from all areas up to 300 km around these areas were found in that areas despite the closing! You can say very easily where people are from because of the licence plate on their cars. The letters in front of the dash in the licence plate are referring to the town or county, where the car is registered.
The above image is taken on Saturday afternoon. It’s neither Sauerland nor Eifel. I simply drove uphill in my town for about 4 or 5 kilometres. Coming from 200m above sea level, where we have no snow anymore (despite we got some the night from Wednesday to Thursday), to 250-300m I saw this right beside the street.
Stay home and us the opportunities you have in your county instead of carrying the virus throughout the whole country, I would like to say to those driving to touristic attractive locations despite the pandemic. This year is not a normal one. Survive the pandemic and you can go skiing again without regulations.
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Lens-Artists Photo Challange 130: “It’s a Small World”
This week’s Lens-Artists photo challenge is hosted by Anne and she takes us with her in the tiny world of macro photography. She’s right, one can discover a lot with a macro or even a micro lens. Macro photography is defined by everything up to a scale of 1:1. When using a lens able to use at scales between 1:10 and 10:1 you’re talking about micro photography.
A common macro lens is usually working up to the scale of 1:1. But, there are options available to boost the scale being this i.e. by involving extenders, bellows and reverse adapters. I own a set up extenders and a revers adapter und use them sometimes.
Below, I assembled a collection of images taken with my 105mm macro lens, a 35mm prime lens attached via retro adapter or with a 400mm telephoto lens by using extention tubes. You see, there are different ways to do macro photography. Btw. the easiest way is using a macro lens, but the most fascinating one is the retro adapter (end even the cheapest one😊). In case your interested in a howto, drop me a line and ask, what you want to know😊.
Btw. you can find many more examples here in my blog.
