Photo of the day: Incoming

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...

Photo of the day: Summer is fading

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...