We were allowed back onto my brother’s street this morning (Sunday). The fire burned to my brother’s fence in the back yard, which backs up to a mostly wild and grassy hillside that rises above. It looks like it was more of a small ‘spot fire’ caused by flying embers, while the ‘main’ front of the fire was stopped about 50-100 feet above at a small road. Definitely too close for comfort.
My buddy Till walking the line on the outskirts of Pegnitz yesterday evening.
Just walked in the door after 24 hours of travel. Been up in the Lofoten islands for the last week. More photos coming tomorrow and the next days. But for a quick teaser of things to come: snow, snow, a bit more snow, and maybe some snow…
Driving around yesterday I came across a few wind turbines in a farm field. The pictures don’t really show just how big these things are, but they are huge (for those that have never stood beneath one). The turning of the blades makes this ominous sounding ‘swooshing’ sound.
Somewhere beneath the clouds should be Hohes Brett and the southern part of the Göll Massif as seen from Jenner. I hope to have time to do a multi day through hike over this area in the summer or autumn.
3 shot vertical pano with Nikon 85mm tilt-shift lens
A few sunrise photos from down in the Allgäu last autumn. I wish I had done a time lapse of the fog as it cleared, was totally cool looking.
While it’s nice to take photos of snow, it’s not so nice to take pictures in snow. Saturday, from the other week down in Berchtesgaden. Didn’t shoot much, as you can see, the visibility wasn’t all that good…
Loch Crinan in the south western part of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. May 2008
I went underground for an hour or so this afternoon to play around with light and the ice-stalagmites in the Windloch Sackdilling cave.
The first photo is only with a single SB-800 flash remotely fired from behind the ice. It’s really cool how bright the ice glows.
At first I set up a couple of flashes on light stands but it was a slow process moving everything around in the dark. So I settled with keeping one flash on the ground somewhere behind the ice and using the other light stand like a boom and holding it at various angles. I figure I’ll go back again for some more photos and try a few new things. I like the contrast of the ice against the darkness, but maybe I’ll shoot off a few flashes in the back of the cave to help give a bit more depth to the photos.
OK, this has got to be one of the coolest parade floats I’ve ever seen: a V-8 engine straight piped into a fire breathing dragon and continually revved up by some drunk dudes dressed as medieval knights. Cool!
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