Going out for a Sunday walk involved taking our cameras. And driving through the thick fog we were expecting to find even more moody scenes down by the river.
The water was rushing by with a smooth and unbothered surface, gliding away under the blanket of fog. And the reflections were almost more clear than the actual trees looked in this weather.
Hamm, Lippeauen, November 2013.
Panning is a technique that involves longer exposure time and deliberate motion of the camera - in one or more directions.
Lately I was hunting motives in this field of photography again and here is (some of) what I brought home.
Taken in Venice, March 2011.
This part of a church we went to explore in Portugal, 2012.
The ocean lagoon at Hvalnes, South East Iceland, is the point where thousands of whooper swans meet to migrate to warmer climate.
When we passed this lagoon in 2012 the gathering had begun but there were many more to come. Due to non-clear condition we were not able to see very far and can only roughly estimate how many swans there really were.
I do think that these rocks are towering over the bay at Hvalnes, Iceland, as if they are guarding and watching this bay.
The landscape is sometimes really rough but always interesting in Iceland.
This girl, that you saw flying in an image last week, got rewarded for her awesomeness by an ice cream.
Djupivogur, summer 2012.
This city was really nice to look at but the town itself did not call us to stay so after lunch and checking things out we got on our way again. Harbour of Djupivogur.
The special look of Venice, even in the smallest street. March 2011.
This girl was having fun outside the little restaurant in the Eastfjords that we were having lunch at. She jumped off the bench just as I was trying to take a picture of her.
Her dress was really fun and she was acting as if she came straight from an Astrid Lindgren novel.
Seen in the Eastfjords of Iceland, 2012.
The roads in and out of the fjords are well paved and maintained roads in the Eastfjords. The turns are steep and tight, tough.
People seem to be taking jumping pictures in Iceland as an internet joke.
We have tried it. While my husband manages very pretty jumps, I did not make it to any presentable jumping images above Seydisfjördur. Later on, I managed it pretty good.
Here, now, I want to present you a "Thinker Jump".
A friend lately send me a scan of an old and battered photo. It shows her great-great grandfather and she was wondering, if there was a chance to make it look any better.
I took it into Photoshop and started from the face outward. I used the clone stamp in a very small diameter and worked on one light spot at a time. Some areas I worked on with colored brushes, photoshop filters and With several hours of work by hand I made the image resurface and was pleasantly surprised about the outcome.
Fortunately the face of the person had been mostly intact to beginn with. No really important information was missing.
Thanks for allowing me to show this image.
Eine Freundin schickte mir neulich ein altes und beschädigtes Foto. Es zeigt ihren Ur-Ur-Großvater und sie fragte sich, ob es eine Chance gäbe, das Bild zu verbessern.
Ich habe es mit Photoshop bearbeitet und habe vom Gesicht begonnen. Ich habe den Kopierstempel benutzt, mit einem sehr kleinen Radius, und habe einen weißen Flecken nach dem anderen bearbeitet. Andere Stellen habe ich mit Farbe und mit Photoshopfiltern bearbeitet.
Mit einigen Stunden Handarbeit habe ich das Originalbild wieder zum Vorschein kommen lassen und war selbst positiv überrascht vom Ergebnis.
Glücklicherweise war das Gesicht der Person relativ intakt und keine wichtige Information hat gefehlt.
Danke für die Genehmigung, das Bild hier zu zeigen!
In the eastfjords of Iceland we came to this pass over into one of the fjords. The little river was deeply carved into the rock bed and had left a gurgling and troubeling river in the stone.
This friendly whimbrel was flying alongside us for quite a while. He was notifyling all other wildlife of our presence and took that job serious.
On our hike this was the revarding view. This fjord was really wide and the view was scenic.
See the drive there in yesterday's post. (Iceland, Eastfjords)
When driving out to the cliffs at the end of the fjord we entered this propperty consisting of beautiful lupin fields along the fjord.
In the Icelandic Eastfjords we went for a hike in this beautiful and wide open fjord.
Belgium in the winter time. And a tiny horse in the snowy field.
This little gnome serves quite a good beer. Image taken at Brasserie Achouffe in March 2013.
Lately I went on a quest for moss in the woods. This is what I found.
This rustic old town is situated in middle Portugal. We loved to explore the tiny roads and the city wall.
Indoors an old palace in Portugal.
The trees in the Portugese countryside look amazing to me. Here I had the fortune of finding a group of them in a nicely wavy foreground on a hill and a bigger forrest of the same trees in the background.
More images from Portugal in black and white.
I have started to develope my images from Portugal into black and white images.
The gulls on the pole are an image I took on Norderney in the late fall of 2011.
Instead of a cold and snowy winter we got some rainy and overcast days around christmas.
That does not - however - stop us from taking images. You just have to look for other motives than on sunny oder snow covered days.
Here is a section of foggy woods. The little ground-bound cloud was passing over the course of a few minutes, traveling up the hill and disappearing.
We got a fisheye lense for christmas. And we found this apple tree in the wood with no leaf left, but all those apples. I loved the testing grounds.
OK, I admit, the abberations are more than noticeable in this counterlight, but those can be treated if needed. New perspectives are awaiting us!
