by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 26, 2010 | Photo of the day
This herring gull surprised us on a little canoe trip on the river Schwentine close to the state capital, Kiel. When I saw it coming with the low sun illuminating it from behind I just had enough time to quickly raise the camera and fire two shots. I love the position...
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 25, 2010 | Photo of the day
Most of them at least. Most farmers around here were lucky to empty their wheat fields last week, before all the rain came. We had heavy storms these last days. I took this photo on the way back from Kiel one evening in July, when the cropping just had started. For...
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 24, 2010 | Photo of the day
This photo of black-eyed susans was supposed to be part of a series of three postcards. Today I picked up the first test print.. terrible! It seems the printing service people were feeling bad for my photos, which lacked contrast and saturation… and cranked up...
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 23, 2010 | Photo of the day
This abstract photograph was actually a happy accident. I had planned to take macro photos of a water drop falling into water. That turned out to be extremely difficult with my self-made macro (one lens attached head-to-head to another one). The focussing is made with...
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 22, 2010 | Photo of the day
I took this photo of the Cathedral here in Schleswig on the longest day of this year, almost at midnight. We don’t have midnight sun in this area , but it stays quite bright around june 21st. The cathedral “St. Peter” is one of the mot important...
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 21, 2010 | Photo of the day
I love barley fields in early summer. The soft stalks wave in the slightest wind like a green carpet. Add some dramatic clouds to it and you got me. This photo is actually made of three exposures combined to an HDR image and then tonemapped to have a dramatic, somehow...
