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The red wonder

kweide — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 06:43:23 +0000

While running around thru the tress, thru the garden of Pillnitz near Dresden, one has to keep his eyes open, as always. And suddenly this little red thing came across my way. So small yet so powerful and with such striking red leaves. It made a fantastic green/red contrast. SO what could i do ?? Yes, take a picture of it..

Fuji XE-2

Have a landscape

kweide — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:39:48 +0000

Just to give my eyes a different kind of visual food i confronted them with trees, green grass and such stuff. I found it in Pillnitz, near Dresden. We made a steamboat tour to the beautiful palace of Pillnitz and the fantastic garden installation. There forest and its garden are stunning. If you ever have the chance to visit it, do it !

Fuji XE-2

Snail

kweide — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 06:20:54 +0000

Back home from a trip full of impressions and tons of new pictures. Exhausted, tired. Taking the last steps from the car into the house. The camera bag over the shoulder. Happy to be home again. But suddenly a colored spot. Small and to my right. I decided to stop and to look a bit closer. A snail, a very small one. About 1.5 cm long slides beside my way. Okay, i think, here comes the macro. Just threw the M.Zuiko 60 onto my E-M1 and snapped the pictures right away. Exhausted or not…

Arg, it should be a focus stack but that damned snail is moving, slow but fast enough to prevent a stack. I tried different apertures and their effects on sharpness and bokeh. Well here you see the little guy with f2.8 and a wonderful creamy bokeh

Breakfast in Tuscany

kweide — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 08:00:12 +0000

What is better than an Italian breakfast in Tuscany? Sitting in the garden, the first rays of sun through the branches of trees break seeing the flareghosts in the lens? This (croissants here already in the stomach) and a large espresso ….

Have your camera ready… always !
Olympus E-M5 + Zuiko 7-14

Biodiversity

kweide — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:29:59 +0000

It can be seen in your garden, the rotten one :), before cleaning it up, removing all that dead things, dry, drought, harsh, But look twice and dicover the beauty of dead things. Nature is full of surprise..

Olympus E-M5, M.Zuiko 60 mm Macro, ISO200 @ f3.5, 1/800 second

One wish …

kweide — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:41:14 +0000

After such good work i offered her one wish for free. She asked for some flower pictures. Ups… i am not a good flower portrait guy, but the wish should always be fulfilled. So i did it and put some shots from roses to her desk from her garden.

This one is her fav rose in the garden. So colorfull and intensiv, yes i like the colors too. But i thought the next one is beautiful as well, although i named it always “buggy”.

But see yourself and judge. So full of life :). But what can be the counterpart to such a lot of beauty ?? Easy, i found it in the same garden and it is always the same game, it is part of life, the dead flower.

They are not really dead, just the bloom is worn out :) We will see it again in next spring. Like in real life. Did you notice what happend ??? Even taking pictures of flowers, under the impressions of the past photoshooting the emotional layer was still working. She took her inner wish on the desk and i respected it, fulfilled it. This is an additional strength to the already existing layer. Do so as well. Offer a wish for free, fulfill it without hesitations or discussions. Try to find the emotion in the fulfilling of her wish as well and you get back 1000 opportunities for new pictures and scences. Ever heard of : “Sleeping Beauty” ? or Dornröschen ? Created from this walk thru the roses…. more to come…