My favourite tree at work

Taken today during my lunch walk, so around noon in mid October:

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I see it from my window, tho here I was much closer of course. Still, a fascinating tree, no matter what the weather is like.

Update, one day later:

Here is the same tree again, taken with the same camera, lens, and even aperture. But this time I took the image a bit earlier, and from my workplace, out of the open window:

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Thanks for viewing.

That “full frame” look, and closed headphones

Yesterday I found a cat photographer on the Flickr blog, here. And it’s interesting to see that an (now considered old) Canon 6D is enough to get that “full frame” look – especially when using macro lenses or something like a 85mm/1.8.

Andrew Reid from EOSHD tho praises the new Nikon D850 – the best quality you’ll get if you need the best and have the money.

And the German-speaking “Sound & Recording” online magazine tested the Yamaha HPH-MT8 closed studio headphones, which seems to be an alternative to the Audio-Technica ATH-M50. Interesting; next time I’ll be in Cologne in the Music Store I’ll have to listen to both of them.

Thanks for reading.

Oh. September is gone already.

Ok – here are some more photos I took in September:

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And here’s a first photo from October:

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And what was I listening to lately? Some wonderful music from Cuba:

Thanks for watching.

Jamaica coalition. All pirates?

What a cool image in today’s “Die Zeit”:

Our politicians as pirates of the – no, not Carribean, but the so-called “Jamaica” coalition (because black, yellow, and green are their parties’ colours).

Cool. Even with parrot!

Strong, and very powerful

One of the best projects I have found until now is PlayingForChange (.com and their video channel).

It all started with this:

But there’s more, like:

Or like this:

P.S.: of course, the last two of these strongly remind me of Bob Marley’s groundbreaking live album “Babylon by Bus” from 1978:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn-D6oJSJlo

What a good time that was.

Enjoy…

On LensCulture: Nadav Kander

“I was driven beyond belief. I was driven to be accepted, to be respected. Without that drive, how are you ever going to do that? Rather, you’re going to go to a party and carry on with your life. In the end, I don’t think one gets ‘discovered’—rather, it happens for those individuals who fight to have their work seen.”

A very good article about one of the great and still living photographers, Nadav Kander, at LensCulture. Fair warning: contains some nude images, so maybe NSFW in/at/around your area.

Enjoy.

Some photos from September, so far

Beginning of September, Zuleikha and her friend Nikoleta wanted to sell some old toys and stuff on a local flea market. Here are two photos I took on that day:

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Other than that, I used my wide angle lens a lot. 14mm on a µ43rds camera is like 28mm used to be on film, and that’s commonly considered good for landscapes or cloudscapes like in the following example:

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But you can even take portraits with a wide angle lens, like this one of Tuna:

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A wide angle lens is also good to get some “perspective” on smaller things, like for instance this bird feeder:

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The wind always throws (and blows) away that bird feeder from the wall, so I took it back in. This photo is from today, but with a 45mm lens instead of the wide angle:

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Oh, and I’ve got a haircut this month. Here’s a photo – or rather two, mounted together as one – which Zuleikha took with the E-PL5 camera and the 14-42mm “kit” zoom lens:

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Thanks kiddo, for the nice portrait!

And that’s all for the moment. But the month isn’t over yet…

Thanks for viewing.

Update:

Another one from today – Tuna the cat, dozing in the twilight:

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Thanks for viewing.

R.I.P. Walter

Walter Becker, thanks for everything.

Walter Becker, with bass red

And this – this is the most talk I’ve ever heard from him. It’s called “The Making of Aja”, and it has Japanese subtitles:

You are missed, Walter. But still, rest in peace.

Walter Becker, Feb. 20 1950 — Sept. 03 2017

Edit: Just found this – and I think Walter would have laughed about it like I did: