My last week was crazy stuffed with work, unbelievable short bedtimes in impersonal and desolate sterile hotel rooms – I was more than busy with my customers. Nevertheless it was a good week with some very quiet moments before and after the coaching.
As always I had my camera with me.
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Moments#2. 19 October 2019. Baden, Switzerland.
The Scaffold. [click to enlarge]
Photographing in pouring rain is pure fun – even more if passers-by are curious, what you make an image of – but won’t ask you because they worry getting wet in the rain while they ask you. 🤭 The Scaffold!
Continue readingMoments#1. 17 October 2019. Ehrendingen, Switzerland.
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Here I stand again at the window, enjoying the beautiful autumn colors around me and the last few days of my vacation.
Continue readingOne Single Image Photoessay. 14 October 2019.
Ehrendingen, Switzerland.
Crow. [click to enlarge to full resolution]
Continue readingTicino, Switzerland. Photo storytelling, 11 October 2019.
Especially during the summer months the frenzy of thousands of cars on the highway heading north comes to an abrupt end as they get stuck in the omnipresent traffic jam south of the 16.8 km long Gotthard Road Tunnel (map, Wikipedia), which connects the swiss-italian part with the swiss-german part of Switzerland.
This time we wanted to make it better and decided for slow travelling to the North having a break here and there and everywhere, avoiding the motorway and taking our time.
Did you know the Denti della Vecchia, the massive geological mountain formation near Lugano – a true hiking and bouldering paradise? In all those years I must have made thousands of images of the beautiful Denti della Vecchia – but today the scenery was absolutely spectacular with the sunrays and shadows in the sky.
Tons of tones and high dynamic tonal range in pouring rain – my tips for making photographs in poor weather conditions.
Photostorytelling. October 2019. Corticiasca, Switzerland
How to achieve this analog#1 film-like look with your digital camera and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?
Photo blog and short tutorial. October 2019. Corticiasca, Switzerland.
Photostorytelling. Fetlar, Shetland Islands. August 2019.
On a hiking tour on Fetlar we entered the territory of the Arctic tern. As we did not want to disturb them we tried to stay in a safe distance and nevertheless got ‘attacked’. The closest approach by outraged Arctic terns was about one meter.
30 images (see all of them below) were made within two or three minutes. Afterwards we left the beautiful birds alone again.
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