Picking favourites. Mhm. I don’t like it. It’s like having to choose which of your children you like best. I gave it a try, though. Not sure, if these are my best. It’s a few I like. Here goes. Lens-Artists Challenge: Favourites of 2024
Picking favourites. Mhm. I don’t like it. It’s like having to choose which of your children you like best. I gave it a try, though. Not sure, if these are my best. It’s a few I like. Here goes. Lens-Artists Challenge: Favourites of 2024
Currently housebound I can hope for a White Christmas (highly unlikely according to the weather firecasts). But I can look at my photos of last January. for the snow Otherwise it’s the smaller motives I was most drawn to this year. Lens-Artists Challenge #329: Last … Continue reading Last not Least
Living in a region in Germany renowned for a mild climate we don’t have snow very often. But that doesn’t mean it can’t get very cold – perceived cold is the one that counts. Piercing as these plant spears. The dried seed heads of various … Continue reading Piercing Cold
Lens-Artists Challenge: 5 Elements
and I’m fast to find a reason to smile. I’ve never seen this friend in a dirndl before and it was worth it! He smiled right back at me. Interesting rain gear. I have no idea why these creatures were standing or sitting where they … Continue reading I’m Easy
A few weeks ago there was a vintage car show in a local park. Lots of details to be admired and photographed. Although I felt intimidated by the amount of people, many of them with cameras – with cameras with huge telephoto lenses looking very … Continue reading Chitty and Bang
Living in what is called a “Metrolpol-region” it is not easy to find complete silence. On the one hand there are rural parts but there is also the urban sprawl housing two and a half million people. I remember how silent everything became during the … Continue reading Noise Muffling
Aristotle already noticed that nature abhors a vacuum. So cracks don’t stay empty for long. Here are my photos of particularly charming fillers. My favourite filler of all: Lens-Artists Challenge: There is a Crack in Everything
Sofia has asked for some nostalgia. Fortuitous timing! A couple of weeks ago I found a folder with CDs with old photos from our time in Saudi Arabia. I had completely forgotten their existence. To look at them was a trip down memory lane. Here … Continue reading It’s Been a While
The interplay of light and shadow creates atmosphere. Last week I was at a small game reserve stocked with bisons, fallow deer, and wild boars. I normally would call it the golden hour but it turned out to be more of a silver hour. The … Continue reading The Flavour of Light