It’s about time to start posting some of my photos from our trip to the city of Antoni Gaudi. We’ve been there for a week in April and it’s been the last mission for my beloved Nikon D80. I’d like to start with the most prominent building of Gaudis works. The great opportunity was, that we had our appartment right in front of the eastern portal. With access to the roof terrasse, I had plenty of time to shoot the church under every light condition.

I have to say a big Thank You to Nikon. It’s been 6 years since I bought the D80 and it has always been a great pleasure to work with. This is one (or actually some) of the last pictures I took with it. More Barcelona to come soon. Now it’s Olympus’ turn again. My first digital “camera” was a C1 . Now with the OM-D it looks like a new era is beginning.

It’s time. The OM-D E-M5 now she’s here!

And this was the first Sunday morning I took her for a walk down town Dresden. I wanted to see how this camera performs as a tourists instrument. And I have to say, it’s just amazing. It’s like a whole new way of doing photographs on the walk. Having this small camera sitting on my left wrist, operating the motor zoom with the thumb and forefinger, the display slightly tilted up and shooting with the right hand, eigther on the shutter button or the touch screen. Really, it runs like hell. I’m almost to say, this little thing is finally what digital photography was intended to become from the verry beginning, at least what I always wanted it to be. It looks and feels like a scale 1:1.5 model of a classical SLR but it’s fully functional and packed with all the latest bells and whistles of digital technologies.

But I don’t want to bother the world with just another technical review. Here’s the outcome of this mornings city walk. All RAW processed through the latest RC2 of Lightroom 4.1. Yes it already perfectly supports the E-M5.

…weiter ging die Sonntags-Wanderung vorbei an der Burgstädter Linde durch den Lockwitzgrund, wo unter der Brücke der A17 dieses hübsche Bildchen entstand. Na ja, so richtig entstanden ist es dann erst zuhause im Lightroom.

So, heute schöne Wanderung im Dresdner Süden unternommen. Von Nickern über Goppeln hoch zur Babisnauer Pappel. Diese habe ich hier im Lichtbild festgehalten und mich mal wieder in etwas exzessiverer HDR-Technik geübt. Wobei nur der Vordergrund und der Stamm in eigentlicher HDR-Technik, also aus mehreren Aufnahmen entstanden ist. Das Astwerk der Krone ist komplett einer einzelnen RAW-Entwicklung entnommen, um die hässlichen Phantom-Äste und Lichthöfe zu vermeiden, die sonst entstehen.

This is just a remainder of a last years weekend at the parks of Lingner in Dresden.