Well, just to recap … we’ve reached 2020 and this is the current calender — showing our trip to the South Tyrol region around Brixen and the Plose. The full image series is still to come … soon. Detail in the Franzensfeste Fortress, built between 1833 and 1838 by the Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I…… Continue reading The Calendar Files … 2020 … Südtirol — South Tyrol
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The Calendar Files … 2019 … Ireland
Well, just to recap … we’re in 2019 and we are visiting Ireland this time during a trip around the its South-West. Enjoy! The full series can be found here. Streets of Dublin Kilkenny The Burren Near Gallarus Oratory, Kilmalkedar, Ireland Around Muckross House and the Muckross Lake, Ireland Trinity…… Continue reading The Calendar Files … 2019 … Ireland
Irelands Southwest and West (Part 5)
Part 5 of our 2017 trip through Irleands Southwest and West. Coming to the final (analog) part of our tour which leads us from Connemara back to Dublin. Leaving wonderful Connemara and the County Galway … … and entering Dublin — what a contrast. Having some nice food … … and walking over the Ha’Penny…… Continue reading Irelands Southwest and West (Part 5)
Irelands Southwest and West (Part 4)
Part 4 of our 2017 trip through Irleands Southwest and West. Leaving The Burren and Doolin (and the Cliffs of Moher, but that’s another … more digital … story) behind us, we headed north to touch Galway, the beautiful old town laying on our way to Connemara County. Galway … with some typical Irish pub…… Continue reading Irelands Southwest and West (Part 4)
A Nikon F‑301 travelling Ireland
Overture Mid 2017 we made a two week trip through Ireland. Motivated by Jim Grey from Down the Road who made several wonderful posts about his journey in 2016, I tried to get hands on an old analog Nikon F‑301 camera with a 35mm lens attached. I packed five rolls of Agfa Vista 400 to…… Continue reading A Nikon F‑301 travelling Ireland
Hiking the Haselstein and the Center of Central Europe
On this hike I carried with me three cameras — maybe I should stay at one per hike only, as weight is always an issue. The film one was a Contax G2 with its Carl Zeiss Biogon 2.8/28mm attached. I loaded a Kodak Ultramax 400. After the second image the camera stopped working due to…… Continue reading Hiking the Haselstein and the Center of Central Europe
Hiking the Waldnaabtal
On this hike I used two cameras. The film one was a Contax G2 with its Carl Zeiss Biogon 2.8/28mm attached. I loaded a Kodak Ultramax 400. The digital one was a Sony A7R2 with a M39 Voigtländer Color-Heliar 2.5/75mm attached. I loaded … a pretty cool sensor ;) The full album can be seen…… Continue reading Hiking the Waldnaabtal
Perseids Meteor Shower
Another astronomy highlight was the Perseids Meteor Shower occurring in August and this year we were lucky, as it was new moon and so it was quite dark outside, here in that rural region. The maximum hit rate was announced for Monday morning around 4:30 GMT, I knew that I’d not wait that long. Starting…… Continue reading Perseids Meteor Shower
Once in a mankind — Lunar Eclipse with Mars
My first thought was … argh … there will be millions of beautiful, sharp and frame filling pictures on the internet already nanoseconds after this event has started. Then I thought … let’s have a look … and I saw the dark brown moon rising over the southeastern horizon. Hm, … I fetched my binocular…… Continue reading Once in a mankind — Lunar Eclipse with Mars
Inspiration is the motor for improvement
Did I ever tell the story, … why I love a special kind of city skyline images? It was some time ago, when I was looking for something wide, something quite wide, something quite large and something … quite old. I found a Zeiss Ikon Ercona, a 6x9 technical wonder from the early fifties -…… Continue reading Inspiration is the motor for improvement