Showing posts with label Mayen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mayen. Show all posts
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
#Germany - Kletterwald bei Mayen
I should have edited these photos a long time ago.
We were on a day out, my best friend and her two nieces.
For one reason or another I just didn't feel like dealing with the photos.
Well, time to get to work,...
:-)
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
#365 -2013 #011 / I can proof it
We had sunshine yesterday.
30 min of it and I missed 25.
When I got ready to take the dogs I could snap this last snip[pet of blue sky while outside. The clouds to the right are covering the skies since then and icy rain drops are falling.
I still enjoy being out. It's Sunday and in this weather, not many people are out.
If it were sunny, the were shitloads of folks out there ;-)
30 min of it and I missed 25.
When I got ready to take the dogs I could snap this last snip[pet of blue sky while outside. The clouds to the right are covering the skies since then and icy rain drops are falling.
I still enjoy being out. It's Sunday and in this weather, not many people are out.
If it were sunny, the were shitloads of folks out there ;-)
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Week 2 - G+ Advanced Mentorship for Photographers by Ron
One of the goals for this week was to shoot 3 images of one topic.
Done that.
Another goal was to produce them tack sharp.
Failed.
Foggy, gloomy conditions make a bit of a trial for taking tack sharp images.
I got some good tips from our mentor and will (hopefully) give it another go today or tomorrow, depending on the weather and depending on how my cold advances and how I feel.
At least I used my Tri - and Monopod this week.
That was another task, start to form some good habits.
I failed on the Shop and Storage clean-up part, but I keep working on those two habits ;-)
Forming bad habits seems to go faster than the good ones ;-)
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| From G+ Advanced Mentorship for Photographers - Playbox |
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| From G+ Advanced Mentorship for Photographers - Playbox |
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| From G+ Advanced Mentorship for Photographers - Playbox |
And here is my original Plus post for this week, just for my own memory:
Mission 2 - Plus post
Well, well, I did manage to go out and shoot. Time and weather sure wasn't on my side, but that's just a lame excuse.
I did get my three photos, even the ones I did plan and the way I thought of them.
They are not tack sharp as requested, me bad.
I DID use a monopod (tripod was too much of a haul for the distance I had to cover and the little time I had), I did use AP since the camera has been smarter in this kind of weather than me.
But the foggy, cloudy conditions are defo not my best friend.
But I tried (and nearly froze my ass off, there's enough left of it though ;-))
As for the habits, using a tripod wasn't on my list, but since I did better with that than with the planned half hour work in my Zazzle shop and my archives, I think I should mention, that I took my tripod out (and used it) two times this week. And one time I took my monopod.
I still keep my planned new habits on my list and will follow through with them.
I guess new habits don't form overnight.
As for learning buttons on my camera, that came in handy today while trying to snatch some shots of a raptor in a far away tree. I wanted to rush to get my proof shots of my Lifer (Birding terms for a new bird that I hadn't seen before) and so, knowing where the buttons were and remembering that I can see what I am dialing in my viewfinder helped a lot while using exp. comp. I just took a few photos to get the bird.
Then I could take all the time I wanted to set up my tripod and camera and shoot for better detail :-)
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Photography Mentorship - Week 2 - Playing around
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| Collared Dove, Mayen Nette |
So, yesterday I took my camera and my tripod out.
I mainly wanted to play with the idea Ron gave me about using 'aperture priority'.
I had the dogs with me and the weather sort of sucked (it wasn't snowing at that moment, but foggy and overcast).
On this photo I didn't use the Tripod yet, but I figured since Mrs Collared dove didn't fly away, I would at least fumble with the camera and try out the 'AP'.
It's not a killer sharp shot, but I can already tell the difference and that the camera is much smarter than me in choosing the right setting when it comes to aperture.
This will be interesting in the future. Maybe I get the hang of it this way ;-)
Monday, January 21, 2013
#365 - 2013 #009 / Lonely winter days - Kuhdrift, Mayen
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Have a great week everyone.
I will be digging into the new Mentorship week and most
likely post more than be around.
Will catch you on the bright side :-)
#365 - 20213 #007 / Frozen spring
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I am starting to feel a bit better. I guess after today, the back pain at least will be gone again. Perfect for the new work week. sigh :-)
Wishing you all a great Sunday! We had fresh snow. Hope it stays long nough for me to take some more purdy snow pics (maybe with some blue skies for once, pretty please?!)
Saturday, January 19, 2013
#365/213 #008 / Different shades of grey
Different shades of grey
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That's sort of how I feel today too.
Backpain resulting in headache, combined with a hurting knee and various other small things.
Time to go to bed yet?
Thursday, January 17, 2013
#365-2013 / 005 - Step by Step
Step by Step - leads to understanding
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Week 1 of the Mentorship program is already over.
Hard to believe.
This time it was more reflecting and writing about oneself, instead of taking photos. It's a good start. Putting things into words that effect me personally isn't my greatest strength.
At least I got back to taking Photos. And having fun doing so :-)
For the ones interested, we had to write an open letter to Ron, our mentor in the mentorship program.
Here's what I put together:
Dear Ron,
During the past few months I have lost my mojo and I hadn’t picked up the camera in weeks. I expect the program to motivate me again, which it already did.
Other than that I want to learn to see things differently, or show them differently. That was one major step stone during the last mentorship program and I expect that we can look forward to something similar this time.
I want to be able to show the magic I see in nature better, than I did in the last few years. Maybe via techniques or via correcting things I do wrong in camera usage (wrong lens aperture, ISO, etc.). Not sure if the latter will be part of the program, but I am sure whatever comes along will help me in the future.
I am currently struggling with showing the magic. I am showing nature, I am showing photos, I assume people like, but I am missing something in them. It would be great to find better ways and options to get them in there.
Since 2004 I have seldom let my camera out of my hands. I find it fascinating to show people the world I live in. Be it the nature, wildlife, architecture, animals or decay. At first it helped me remember the places we had been to, stories to go along with the photos. It soon developed into something more. I wanted to show beautiful photos with a bit more artsy skill behind them. I looked at how others did it and soon developed my own ways a bit farther down the road from simple snap shooting. I still love to show the world around me and that is why the camera usually isn’t far from me.
I love to shoot nature (landscapes, wildlife – usually birds, macro). I would really love to dig deeper into this subject by getting the ‘right’ gear for great bird photos and landscape photography.
I also like architecture in cultures, hence old buildings, temples, monuments, etc. and people from various cultures. I am not exactly good at architectural photos though and a bit shy when it comes to Portraits.
If money weren’t’ an issue, I would start a class in photography to learn it from scratch, I would get the best gear I could lay my hands on afterward and would travel the world. I would capture the wild nature of places, the cultural heritage and it’s people. Before it gets all lost due to human stupidity.
As far as Self discovery goes, the pattern I can find is, that nature always has been a part of my photography. Trees in all forms, flower, insect close ups, wildlife in general. Colours were usually ‘normal’ tones, pretty close to the natural vista (not over saturated, etc.) and cropping changed only in bits with developing skill and eye. I was also drawn to architecture (houses, monuments, way crosses). Usually something out of the ordinary catches my eyes, some decay, something quirky and I feel like capturing it – or try at least.
As for the pinning part, I am drawn to beautiful images with colours and some sort of magic in them. Great clarity and crisp details. Speed pinning draws me pretty much to the same photos. In the few Portraits I have pinned, it’s the personality of the people and also the crispness and quality that has drawn me. Those were usually fascinating characters where the photo alone already talks a volume.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
#365 / 2013 - 004 / Frozen
It's drizzling snow since early this morning.
The river is freezing closed from all directions
and the dogs are having fun ;-)
The river is freezing closed from all directions
and the dogs are having fun ;-)
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Monday, January 14, 2013
#365 / 2012 - 003 - And there it was again
And there it was again, that white fluffy stuff from the skies.
It makes for happy driving when there's a bunch of morons around, who are either convinced of being invincible, or don't know how to drive on icy roads.
The roads were covered in an hour and turned to ice at the same time where cars drove over. The 'de-icers' were out fast this time (is there a law that they HAVE to go out at certain minus temperatures?), but around Mayen were at least two big car crashes with many cars involved.
Gladly not me, I just had to deal with other idiots.
The kids asked me, if there's Christmas again, since it snowed.
Gotta love kids...
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#Germany - Mayen, St. Veit Strasse
Yesterday I took a stroll through Mayen, trying to capture some of the old buildings left standing after the war. I was inspired by one of the books about the destruction that happened during the last days of war.
Mayen was declared a dead city afterward. In the coming days I will go to some of the places in the book and capture the pictures in there the way the places look now.
I’m not sure how old these buildings in the photo are, I just know that for some reason my photos didn’t turn out the way I wanted them to. Time to relearn the camera and its settings, I guess ;-)
Sunday, January 13, 2013
#365 2013 #002 Freizeitzentrum Mayen
This morning I’ve walked a path I’ve walked many times
before.
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I’ve also taken photographs here many times.
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That is possibly one of the reasons I have left the camera at home these past few weeks.
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The feeling that I cannot capture new things.
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Or the feeling that I cannot capture the Beauty adequately.
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Meaning I take the photos with the wrong camera settings (exposure, etc.) and being disappointed with myself when viewing them at home.
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I will try not to fall into a slump again and instead just shoot with trial and error, sometimes use heavy editing and come along with a result that looks utterly different from what I have seen.
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Which is what I did before too, but for some reason I stopped enjoying it.
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With the new mentorship program on its way, I will open my mind again and just enjoy whatever I come up with.
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It’s not perfect photography . It probably never will be. But it’s me.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
#365 2013 #001 Fish tales
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There's 2013 and I have almost missed it ;-)
Hubby was here for 2 weeks, brought him to the airport this morning.
I will most likely follow in 4 weeks.
Kuwait, what else ;-)
At least for a little while (uhm,...)
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Idiot me didn't even take it while hubby was here.
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Playing with the silly dogs and huge sticks, watching for fish that weren't there, teasing the ducks (not with King usually).
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So, I am doing a 365 project again, I almost made it through last year (even though I haven't posted the ones I took for a long time).
I am not restricting myself to one pic this time, I'll just post what I want :-)
I also got on board of the Advanced Mentorship for photographers program by the awesome and my mind is still blown away by having this great opportunity again!
Glad he accepted me and that even though I hadn't checked my mail for a week. Me bad ;-)
I am looking forward to work with the camera again. And of course to work with Ron and the Gang :-)
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