Category: Light
Glasbausteine
There might be use for a bit of light, I shine it because this is my 500. post, plus this is a contribution for the Minimalism Special at Lost in Translation.
Light Curtain
Light on Table
Although I perceive this as a twilight situation, I am not sure if it is what Paula had in mind with her Thursday’s Challenge. Best pay her a visit and see for yourselves…
Flare
Flare and photography… When I read this week’s photo challenge at Lost in Translation (the challenges are great, give ’em a try), I thought I should find a constellation that makes a flare of light the only subject of my photo, painting a picture with light actually. Then I found myself looking at this empty bottle by the end of a good day and suddenly reality pretty much ‘matched my picture,’ if only for a short moment, as is appropriate for a good flare.
Right Time, Right Place
Here is another one for Paula’s Photo Challenge – for want of a proper sundial.
Zeitfenster
A time window, or window of opportunity even, for the Thursday Special at Lost in Translation – Time – which this Thursday was hosted by Debbie Smyth.
Yellow
A lot of yellow, among other colours…
Humanity
This week’s photo challenge reminded me of an old photo, made seven years ago in Freiburg. To me, it seems to say a lot about being human.
Monopteron
A contribution for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece. This Monopteron, located on Wiesbaden’s Neroberg, was designed by P. Hoffmann in 1851 who used forms of early Florentine renaissance. So it appears to echo an echo of Greek Antiquity. But still: I like this building’s elegance and its sense of lightness (especially on a bright day), an I am intrigued by the way its circles and arches seem to form a vortex in this picture.
Silhouette Experiments
The Weekly Photo Challenge inspired me to try what I have been thinking about for a while now: I experimented with backlit dead leaves here, aiming at the silhouettes (and the compositions).
Turning the Usual Into Something Unusual
Making people look at what they usually overlook, making them see what they did not see before has always been one of the central objectives of photography. It is indeed rewarding to charge everyday scenes and objects with mystery. But the longer I photograph, the better I seem to understand that first and foremost it is light which accounts for an unusual appearance – both in the wotld that surrounds us and in pictures. There is nothing like getting drunk on light…
Treeology
The sun shining into the wintery forest always appeals to me. But I could never get it into a proper picture – until I exposed on the lights, which lead to underexposing the whole by two stops.
Optimism
…or whatever you call seeing light in a gutter on a cold, wet and dark morning.
Over
Still Untitled (Madrid)
Leaves Leaving Shadows on Concrete Floor
Walking in Wiesbaden
Looking at the Window
Shelter in a Misty Forest
empire of lights 