New York – November 2013
Hello and happy New Year! The first post of 2015 goes quite a while back – a batch of photos from New York, taken in November 2013. Mostly black-and-white, with a few splashes of colour.
Tree shape
Man and triangle
Canopy lace
iFeet
Red
Inside or out?
Times Square group
Stephen Fry – after (a brilliant) Shakespeare
The explorer
24 W 57
That’s it! See you next time :-)
Three views of a green iguana – Austria, July 2012
The G12 again :)
Tokyo, March 2014 – mostly street
Hello! A short batch of photos from a visit to Japan this spring. First one was taken from the air, approaching the airport:
Then from a walk near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, three ladies at a crossing:
And another road-related photo (dual personalities, a.k.a. schizophrenic buses):
Man under a tree – a totally trite subject, but I liked the gentle colour palette and soft light, contrasting with the leafless tree:
Just after that, liquid reflections on a building:
And finally, two street scenes:
Worried
That’s it for now, see you next time!
Gray parrot at the Turnersee bird park – Austria, July 2012
Older photo – from the same trip as the Saker falcon. Going through these old batches, I’m so often thinking what a great camera the G12 is. And though my E-M5 is a wonderful tool, and very much more advanced than the compact Canon, the G12’s combination of size, manual controls, articulated screen, superb lens with a big range, etc etc etc, has still had no real replacement for me.
Washington, November 2013 – mostly people and trees
Hello! A batch of photos from a short visit to Washington last November. Mostly people and trees, as the title says, sometimes combined.
Three night shots to begin with:
Red, white and black
Windows
Back alley
Tree interlude:
Three people shots to continue:
On a bike
Walker on the Green
Couple at Circa
Tree interlude II:
And finally, three shots taken at the Philips Collection, during a break from practicing :) –
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II
III
I’m rather happy with the last one. :) That’s it for today! See you next time.
A walk in Dublin – May 2014
Hello! Ages since I last posted. Many photos taken in between, but time for processing has been scarce; so the backlog just keeps on growing.
But anyway, these photos here are fresh from the press :-) I’ve just now been to Dublin (just now meaning till yesterday), and the few days spent there were a blast, from numerous points of view. Photographically, too, it was one of the most exciting trips of recent months, and working on the photos right away felt Good.
The majority of these are from a single walk along the Liffey on my first night there.
Branches
Diagonal aspirations
Cars
Under the handrail
In conversation
Painterly
Golden wheat
Rim light
Lurid
The inundated world
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That’s it for now, see you next time!
An evening in St. Petersburg – December 2013
This is a small series of photos taken over a few hours of walking through St. Petersburg last month. This was the only free evening I had, and for some reason a kind of gloomy, weird and slightly unsettling photos resulted from it. I don’t think it’s representative of the city – just a very particular look at it. I’ll be back there in May, probably with different photographic results :-)
Chair and drainpipe (the first thing I stumbled upon after exiting from the back door of the concert hall)
Vertical No. 1: Looming (looking up from the same spot)
Vertical No. 2: Kazan Cathedral
Vertical No. 3: Waiting for the car (first non-gloomy shot)
Vertical No. 4: New Orleans (back to the gloom. And, I know, wrong city. But this vampire-in-a-coffin relief just jumped at me. [Not literally.])
Church of the Saviour on Blood. I love this church (even though it’s considered garish by St. Peterburg’s tasteful standards), but whatever angle I tried gave nothing but hackneyed results. I ended up taking the photo through a semi-transparent plastic awning on a nearby booth, and later applying an invert/solarize curve in post-processing. I’m not totally convinced I like this image, but at least it’s not hackneyed (I think). I do like the slightly drowned look.
Yellow (non-gloomy shot No. 2, and much more to my taste!)
The smoker.
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That’s it, see you next time!
