by Matthias Kirsch | Oct 11, 2010 | Photo of the day
Another one from the marguerites on our balcony that I found while scrolling through my archives. I didn’t notice it before! This is taken with the technique of holding one lens backwards in front of the other. That way you get a pretty good macro lens –...
by Matthias Kirsch | Oct 5, 2010 | Photo of the day
The last aurochs died in 1627 in a forest near Warczwa, Poland. The species was the father of almost all modern domestic cattle and lived in the most parts of Eurasia and northern Africa. German biologists, the Heck brothers, tried to create a race that at least looks...
by Matthias Kirsch | Sep 29, 2010 | Photo of the day
Ah, spring… this was one of our first forest-visits after the snow had finally gone this year. Still the mood has something of autumn for me. This is the forest between Schleswig and Idstedt, the place of a famous battle in the First Schleswig War in 1850, when...
by Matthias Kirsch | Sep 21, 2010 | Photo of the day
Tomorrow Autumn will officially start on our half of the planet. Here is a last memory of one of the (extremely few) late summer days of this year. Another photo from the Treßsee area, minutes before sunset. Photo data: Pentax K20D, 50 mm manual lens, f 1.7, 1/500...
by Matthias Kirsch | Sep 16, 2010 | Photo of the day
This weekend I’ll have the pleasure of attending a photo workshop with photographer Heinz Teufel. It will be in the Akademie Sankelmark. I know it from two seminars I had there from work. The Akademie is placed in a very nice landscape at a lake – seen...
