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This is me, taking a picture of my camera, which was taking a picture of me.
You surely have recognized me by my haircut... ;-)

The Very First Light

Well, i must admit a bit "cliche" here - but i think, more or less each good looking image contains a certain dose cliche. In my former FC-times some users were derogatory calling such shots "postcard" images (while shooting other kinds of postcard images by themselves at the same time ;-)
Okay - to a certain point they are right, because beautiness or successful colour images are often printed on postcards or posters, they are simple with less image elements, strong colours and they are quickly effective, like this shot obviously is. You don't need to think very much, you can just view and love it. But i think, a certain dose of beautiness is okay for each photographer, unless he/she is not shooting this stuff exclusively or manipulating an ordinary image with painted colours or painted fog in this "dreamy" way.
This shot was really the result of the morning sun, it was NOT taken on a cloudy day - i did NOT clone the sun into it afterwards. The fog was also real, the red of the sun was real (though a bit increased with PS), this scenery was even more beautiful in reality, than it is here as photo.
So i have to say, that i will not apologize myself for showing this beautiful (and true) morning mood and i hope, you enjoy it with me! :-)

Impromptu

... found in fishery harbour Bremerhaven. Shown full frame.

Karstadt has busted!

The big german warehouse Karstadt has busted, they have no money to pay the rent for their houses. One more desaster, that we have to face in these days of financial crisis. In my eyes Karstadt is not only victim of management mistakes, but of our modern web-commercial activities - the people are buying always the cheapest stuff, and with the help of the internet they can easy find the cheapest shop. So WE all killed Karstadt and we should not shed crocodile tears about the lost for our city centres. We all get, what we deserve - and many more shops will follow Karstadt and Woolworth.

So i believe, we must rethink our own behaviour as customers, if we want a more human city atmosphere. How about not only buy the cheapest stuff? How about going to the shop close to you, even if you know, that the price is a bit more expensive than the cheapest price recherche in the web. If we all act like hungry grashoppers (in german we say "Heuschrecken"), we will erode our environment totally blank and clear.
So i think, we should return to buy shoes in a shoeshop, we should avoid to buy in the big chains and support more the small shops - and we should buy in our region.
It is f.e. idiotic, to buy frozen beef from Argentina in Northern Germany, instead of buying german beef here in Germany. (And of course also reverse: South american beef for South America.) Even if it is a bit cheaper: It does such big damage to the nature and i will stop this silly behaviour as much as it is possible to me.
I am convinced: We all (me too) are responsible for that, what happens in our world. It does not make sense, to put the finger on others. WE are destroying the nature, WE are acting like financial sharks. WE with our "cheaper-cheaper-cheaper"-behaviour are the true robber barons, and only we can stop this terrible development.
Less is more - this is not only a good rule in photography.

Primus Inter Pares

Very difficult light situation. Found this y-shaped tree in the wood, and i used my "old" Canon 300D@Sigma12-24 for the shot. I hope, that i was successful in showing the certain light atmosphere of the forest.

Old Hunting Lodge

This is the old hunting lodge in "my" wood, as i call the big wood behind my house. You see, it is a dark and a bit scary place and it is also a bit rotten in the meantime. I already know this hut for many years (for almost 40 years). In former times it was hidden behind a fence, in the meantime the fence is broken and you can go directly around it, this allows me to take pictures there. It is a perfect background for many images and the darkness allowes long time exposures as you can see on my previous post. The blurness in the leaves on this shot is also a result from the long time exposure.

The Puppet

Surreal self portrait, made with my "old" gear (300D@Sigma12-24, long time exposure).
This shot shows, how my photography has changed.