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Winter in Dresden

Axel — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:14:39 +0000

It has been quite cold, about minus 20°C during the last two weeks. There were lots of nice ice floes on the river Elbe, glittering in the sun. And so there are some new winter pictures in the Dresden gallery.

New York – vertical

Axel — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:59:35 +0000

Well, this is not my own idea. I’ve seen something like this years before. But I wanted to see something like this made by myself. These pictures will be seen soon in the lounge of Cascade Microtec GmbH.

–> New York – vertical (gallery)

Birthday Present

Axel — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:45:14 +0000

It’s been 40 years since Olympus brought it’s first OM camera to the world. I wasn’t quite interested in photography by that time, since I’m as old as the OM-1. And as I lived at the wrong side of the wall, I’ve never owned one eighter. My first SLR was an EXA1b instead, followed by some PRAKTICAs.

But since yesterday I know what my 40th birthday present is going to be:

Orkney & Skye

Axel — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:18:19 +0000

It’s been a while since I last wrote some lines here in my blog. Meanwhile we spent our four weeks of summer vacation up in northern Scotland. We visited the Islands of Orkney and the Northwest of Scotland. Especially the Isle of Skye gave us lots of wonderfull impressions on some walks along the Trotternish ridge.

As always, there’s a new section in the Gallery where you can find all the photos. You’re welcome to view and comment the pictures.

I uploaded the GPS tracks of the two trails on Skye to GPSies.com:

The Tractor

Axel — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:42:22 +0000

It’s been a while since we paddled the river Mulde between Leisnig and Grimma. It’s amazing what quiet and peacefull places you can see from the water.

angels, all around us…

Axel — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:17:08 +0000

angels, all around us :: angels, powerfull :: angels, to protect us

Back to Brittany

Axel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:48:23 +0000

…or back to the Dimage A2?

This is a picture from my 2006 Brittany series. The boats where lying beautifull in the evening sun at low tide, right behind our appartment.

Ever since I was using the Nikon D80, I started using the RAW format. Finally with the appearance of Lightroom, I’m shooting RAW exclusively. Today I found some of these MRW files that I took with the Minolta Dimage A2. I wasn’t quite able to do something with them by that time. But now I was interested in the potential that’s in there. I’m quite impressed about the color correction of the APO lens. Also the 12bit color depth contains a lot of reserve for highlights and shades. Even noise is well controllable, at least with ISO 100. A different thing is resolution. I never really understood the discussions about the lens beeing not able to serve the new 8 MPixel chip; now I can see it.

After all, I do not regret to have switched to the D80. But it’s good to know that there would have been some potential with the Dimage A2 too.

The old Steamer

Axel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:01:53 +0000

There’s a landscape north of Dresden, where coal mining is the formative element. At the Findlingspark Nochten they’re trying to rebuilt some natural environment. But the eyecatcher for the photographer is still the big coal power plant nearby.
I did not use any filter for this exposure. The fancy polarizer effect is completely built up in Lightroom.

Natural Weekend

Axel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:54 +0000

…some natural shots from a nice weekend walk. Used my favourite lens, the Sigma 2.8/105mm.

Whitsun at Carols Rock

Axel — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:31:02 +0000

It’s been Whitsun holiday last weekend. We hiked the Monkeys Rocks (Affensteine) up to Carols Rock (Carolafelsen). As usual on days like this there was quite a rush in the rocks. But fortunately there are enough hidden paths where you can find your rest. Summer’s coming visibly now. Everything is gettin verry colorfull. And while the kids are climbing the rocks, I’ve got plenty of time to take some shots.