Cowled in their blankets against the cold and their breath smoking, shuffling through the black and silky drifts. They were crossing the broad coastal plain where the secular winds drove them in howling clouds of ash to find shelter where they could. (Cormac McCarthy, The Road). Depressing. The first word which came to my mind […]
Kategorie: Camera Gear
Sunday Morning with the Ricoh GR I (Color)
It’s the Reds and Blues which sometimes (not very often) let me work the raw-files into color-pictures. Strong reds and blues. Preferably with a touch of Black. If I can find them in one frame: wonderful! These pictures were taken with the Ricoh GR and post-produced with the RNI-preset ‚Technicolor‘ . Deutsche Übersetzung: siehe unten. […]
Sunday Morning with the Ricoh GR I (Black and White)
Actually, I am not very interested in reviewing cameras. That doesn’t mean, I don’t like to read reviews – quite the opposite. They are an ever sparkling source for an illness a lot of amateur photographers suffer from: the gear acquisition syndrome. But truth to be told: new cameras or lenses just very rarely improve […]
Cologne Photokina 2016
Photography – there is no other art form, where the instrument of creation seems to be even more important than the creation itself. I spend at least as many time visiting websites which analyze old or new photography gear as reading photography books or visiting websites of great photographers. Maybe in the hope of achieving […]
Le Bloc im Belgischen Viertel – Street Photography Cologne
Once in a while you will see the dressed up youth of the Cologne hip-quarter „Belgisches Viertel‘ getting even more dressed up. Dj’s will line up in front of fashion stores, there even is a runaway for models in a car park, showing the stuff you can buy in the countless fashion shops of this […]