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My new friend and watchdog Moses completed my household since november - and as you can see here he shows a friendly and very "charming" character (with some mad undertones)... :-)
I have to admit, that it is not very easy to shoot serious landscapes with one arm, while big Moses is dragging at the leash - but on the other hand i am now much more frequently out in the meadows and woods of my hometown. In the meantime i can let him dig his holes without his leash and so i am hopeful, that i will be able to shoot some serious landscapes again. Though he is better in finding mouseholes than in finding good motives. Maybe i can trim him a bit in a photographic artistic direction, who knows?! ;-)

Bridge over Untroubled Water

Long Time Exposure with a strong Grayfilter is a good method to simplify photographs. Like other methods to simplify images (for instance by using open aperture or by using natural effects, like strong backlight, fog or motion blurness) have we a good contrast between the sharp und blur parts of the images. I especially like the quieteness and calmness of running water, it looks, as if it was frozen. The whole scenery looks bewitched and surreal - and this is the reason, why i like these kind of photography. It is a lot of fun, to find and photograph locations with moving objects, like wind mills, wind power wheels, all kinds of water etc.

Unsettled June

Well, it did not rain - but it threatened to rain, and as we know from chess: The threat is stronger than the execution! ;-)

Cloud of Life

There are definetely a lot of beautiful things to discover, even in the ugliest pure plantations of my hometown. Here i found (a few weeks ago) the first leaves of a beech - what a wonderful sight amongst all the monotone vertical lines of the pure plantation and all the bio-garbage on the ground. How much more sadly would the pure plantation look, if they also would cut these single beeches, that our ancestors once planted? I found a lot of little broadleaf trees, who were cut for no reasons, but being different to the wanted sort of trees.
I hope, that these wood owners wake up one day, that they are not only destroying the beautiness of their vegetation but also the ecological base of many animals - and to a certain degree also the health of their wood.

Fernscape

I was in the wood today and was crawling under the fern - so you see the result. :-)
The original colour image was set to mono and i also colourized and processed it a bit - it should be viewn in big and on a dark background (Simply click on "L" - and with another click on "all sizes" you should view it bigger.)

The Last Birches

When i started my serious digital photography in 2003, the whole place here was full with wild grown birches.
After 8 years, they all are cut except this small group. It is probable a matter of time, until they will vanish from the scenery too. So i thought, a blur and a bit grainy interpretation of this scenery, taken a few minutes after sunset, is the right presentation for this sujet. I also colorized this monochromatic photo, as you surely notice at first sight. The upper part looks, as if it is printed on wet paper, i recommend you to view this image in big, even with the usual loss in the image processing of blogger.com.

Jack Simon published his first book: "UNTITLED"

My dear friend and admired streetphotographer Jack Simon published his first book, which can be ordered HERE.
As reader of this blog you will surely know, that Jack is a great and sensitive streetphotographer.
If you not yet know his amazing shots, you can view Jack's Flickr-portfolio f.i. at his Flickr-Account.

Jack's book is printed by blurb and was chosen in a blurb contest to be exhibited at the Format Festival in England next month. Jack also has a small series being shown at the festival. This tells a lot about the quality of Jack's first book - he has obviously impressed the blurb people very much and i have no doubt, that his amazing photos will impress his readers as well.