Photo of the day: Shining through

This is another photo from saturday’s trip. We were already on the way back when I saw these tiny plants (the talles ones are around 10 centimeters high). So I got my knees dirty to capture them against the low sun. Photo data: Pentax K20D with 50mm manual lens,...

Photo of the day: Leaving the beach

A quick view back after an evening of shooting at the beach of St. Peter-Ording at the west coast made me stop one last time to capture the moment. Those pastel colors, the shape of the clouds and the grass framing the wooden stairs down to the beach made it easy to...

Photo of the day: Fragile Beauty

Today’s photo is my latest listing in my etsy shop. I took it on saturday in a moor not too far from here. The sun was already pretty low (and not covered by clouds, for a moment) and gave a great backlight to make this spider web glow. Photo data: Pentax K20D...

Photo of the day: Rose cross

These roses are growing in front of the church in Tetenbüll on the Eiderstedt peninsula on the west coast. That area has more village churches from medieval times than most other area in Germany – wherever you are, you always see the top of a church tower. It...

Photo of the day: Berry season

They are beginning to get dark and juicy… blackberries! (Not the ones with keys and a display.) We tried the first ones on a walk on wednesday night. Sweeet (but most of them were still red and hard). I processed this one with a bit of inspiration from Dutch...

Photo of the day: The Path at the beach

Today’s photo is taken at the beach close to Waabs, on the baltic sea near Eckernförde. I was testing the “black card technique” here (as described here on Flickr), but the effect of the darkened sky was lost again in the black-and-white conversion....