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A rose is a rose
Some minutes ago, on our dining table:
Update, one day later:
Here’s another photo of the same rose, one day older, and now under our LED room light instead of flash:
Update, another day later:
Another day, another photo of Mitchie’s rose. This time with daylight and with the PanaLeica lens fully open:
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Back from a birthday party
Yesterday was Zuleikha’s tenth birthday, and today she invited some of her friends to her party at a bowling center. It was lots of fun, and I took over 300 photos, most of which I can’t show here without further admission. So here is one which does not show any of her friends:
I guess this one is ok as well, because you can’t really identify anyone except our own daughter:
All of the photos will go to all of the parents of course. I’m glad that everyone who was invited also came. Like I wrote already, this was real fun.
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Back from Cologne
We’re back from a short trip to Cologne, where we visited an aunt of mine. Can’t show any people photos from there, but here are some impressions from her flat, taken with whatever light was available:
Elephant on a glass table
Corner decoration
Half naked ladies (part of an art nouveau lamp)
Today is Zuleikha’s 10th birthday. I also don’t have any shots from that (yet); here are some of our cat instead:
Tuna the cat, December 2014
Tuna the cat, December 2014
All taken with the Olympus E-PL5 camera and with Mitchie’s Panasonic Lumix 20mm/1.7 lens which I still love like on the first day.
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Some photos I took since yesterday
Edible cats
Tablet vs. TV set
Dozing cat. Cropped 16:9 from original 4:3 image.
Tuna the cat, December 2014
Looking at some birds…
All photos were taken with the Olympus E-PL5 camera. The first one with the M.Zuiko 45mm/1.8 lens, the rest with the Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm/1.4 at ISO values between 200 and 1600. Available (room) light.
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Be happy…
So – Christmas week is coming for those who celebrate it, winter holidays have begun for most colleagues (including me) and our kids, and the year will soon be over.
These are our wishes to all who read it:
Be happy…
Olympus E-PL5 with 45mm/1.8 lens. Studio stobe with beauty dish from up front, compact flash for the white background.
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In our flat, on a quiet evening
A heart can be a mirror, too
Olympus E-PL5 with 45mm/1.8 lens wide open.
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One flower, four variations
In Germany we call it Weihnachtsstern, and I think in English it should be a poinsettia. In Latin it’s Euphorbia pulcherrima. Here are 4 photos of the same small plant:
Full resolution pictures are on Flickr, as usual.
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The daily cat photo, in black and white
At the moment I take at least one photo per day of Tuna, our cat. And I’m also reducing them in camera to black & white and add colour only if I think it adds something to the picture. Still they can be very different. Yesterday’s picture for instance shows a sleeping cat, and tho I took it using flash, I reduced contrast to get a more moody or dreamy look:
Today’s image is the complete opposite: a highly alert cat, with daylight at ISO 1000:
Both were taken with the Olympus E-PL5 camera and the Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm/1.4 lens, both times fully open at f/1.4.
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Cat in a box
Tuna the cat just loves it when we get new packages, and leave them opened on the floor.
Tuna the cat, December 2014
Tuna the cat, December 2014
Both images were taken with the Olympus E-PL5 camera and the Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm/1.4 lens at f/2, and ISO 2500. Still the exposures were quite long, since the LED room lights aren’t that bright.
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