week 29 - I guess I was bored...

Cold rainy winter days are one of the worst things ever. If it snowed I'd go outside but it's just muddy and eeeh. Best thing you can do is nestle down in a warm blanket and sit on the couch while drinking a hot chocolate and reading a book. And taking pics of weird pigs.

I took these two years ago, a few weeks after I got my camera. I love the light.

week 24 - Merry Christmas!

Hey, it's week 24 and it the 24th!
Hold on, can't be. I've gotta hurry up, I think I'm two weeks late.
I'm so excited! Guess what I got for Christmas! The Canon EF 70-200mm USM 4L!!
Okay, I had to pay half of it myself, but that's fine since I've been saving for it for a while.

Merry Christmas to everyone! And a happy new year!

week 19 - I think I was manic...

...when a friend and I went hiking in Converses when it was about 22 degrees(about -5 degrees Celsius). When we got home we couldn't feel our feet or hands anymore. But hey, it was a fun trip and we've got some nice pics. And we have to get used to the cold weather, in December it'll be around 14 degrees...


Or rather in color?

week 12 - almost touching the sky

I really like this one :)



So...we finally moved to Bavaria. Outside of Bamberg it actually looks pretty nice, look at that:

The weather wasn't perfect for landscape photography and I shot against the sun...how clever...so I just tried to use some nice compositions (stones as a foreground, rule of thirds)

On our way we found this little snake...Does anybody know what kind of snake this is? I guess it was a baby, maybe 20 cm(about 8 inches) long. Somebody said it was a Coronella austriaca but I'm not quite sure about that. Any other ideas?


on our way up:


simple...

week 8 - Altfels: lizards and Co.

Jenni and I went hiking in...I don't even know exactly where, somewhere on the border to Rhineland-Palatinate. Our destination was a rock called "Altfels", a really pretty place! I didn't even know we had such beautiful places in our area.
We carved our names in the stone...

It actually doesn't look that big. Copy and paste: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/545/img4609q.jpg/
...and I also managed to photograph a lizard. At first it didn't wanna come out of his crevice and then he was so fast that it was difficult to photograph him. But I realized: That's something I like: taking pics of wild animals. I don't care if I have to wait for an hour until the animal stops hiding. It's fascinating to show how they life, just how they are, just moments of life. Nothing looks contrived or posed, I'm just showing things like they are.

week three - just a normal busy work day

I'm not late, no, I'm not. It's still Sunday and pictures of week three are follwing. I've been a little down the past days and just didn't wanna take pictures... It sucks not to have a reason to be sad.

From Monday, when I visited Camila, a friend in Paris (which was awesome! I already miss her.)
I was trying to emphasize the speed of the subway by using a long shutter speed. I didn't have tripod with me (a little stupid of me) and I know there are so many photos showing a blurry train or subway, but anyway...