Fire in the Sky

Fireworks at Berlin Pyronale

It was a magic night under the fire in the sky. Last night we watched the fireworks competition of the 2019 Pyronale on the Maifeld at the steps of Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. And I took my PEN-F and tried to capture some of its splendor.

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Beach emotions

Silhouettes of a photographing couple at a colorful ocean beach
1/3 sec | f/4 | ISO 640 | 86mm

I like to give me those little photographic self assignments, to keep my creative juices flowing. Like when I was enjoying a Pacific sunset at Oregon’s Cannon Beach the other day. When I was capturing beach emotions.

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Ocean Sunset

Sunset walk at Cannon Beach
1/60 sec | f/4.5 | ISO 200 | 11mm

After another two intense workdays in the Pacific Northwest I’m heading home today, currently at Chicago O’Hare Airport for my connecting flight to Munich. Just enough time to share a photograph of a magic ocean sunset taken at Cannon Beach on the Oregon Coast this past Sunday.

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Guiding Light

Heceta Head Lighthouse on the Oregon Coast under the night sky
1 sec | f/1.2 | ISO 400 | 17mm

Throwing another image of the Heceta Head Lighthouse (see yesterday’s post with the photographs from below and across here) at you doesn’t really do justice to the splendid day I spent yesterday on the Oregon coast. I enjoyed sunshine, pristine beaches, colorful towns and saw about twenty Grey Whales from the shore.

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Highlight of my week

Heceta Head Lighthouse on the Oregon Coast at dusk
1/10 sec | f/4 | ISO 200 | 75mm

It was a long trip from Nuremberg across the big ocean to Portland earlier this week. A total of 27 hours travel time. Followed by two days of intense work. But I treated myself to weekend trip to the Oregon Coast, leaving the office in time to arrive for sunset at the Heceta Head Lighthouse near Yachats.

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Man at work

Man at work
1/200 sec – f/4 – ISO 400 – 100 mm

No, this is not me. But this is how the life of me (the aspiring photographer) has been the past two weeks. Almost literally.

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Aida under the Stars

Red dress decorated in a window in Verona
Like Callas | Verona | 2019

Besides my photography and my love for travel, I am a big opera aficionado. There is a perfect place to combine my three passions….Verona. A place where you sit on the warm stone steps of a two thousand years old roman amphitheater on a placid Italian summer night. Listening to the magic music of one of the world’s most popular operas. Aida under the Stars…

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Liquid Houses

Camogli Church seen from a submerged camera
1/250 sec – f/8 – ISO 100

This is how it looks when you photograph the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta in the moment a wave washes over your camera and the lens is half submerged.

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Man on the moon

Telefoto of the partial lunar eclipse on July 16th 2019
1/320 sec – f/5 – ISO 200 – 210 mm

I find it fitting that this week’s anniversary of mankind’s first landing on the moon coincides with a current lunar event, the partial eclipse on this past Tuesday. Not that I ever need a reason to point my camera up at the big silver dish in the sky. Looking for the man on the moon.

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Feet Up

Two pairs of sand covered bare feet
Feet Up | 1/800 sec – f/8 – ISO 200 – 100 mm

Feet up! Relaxation is the main theme of our vacation on the Ligurian coast. We head down to the beach almost daily. Great food and drinks, reading and swimming is the main program. And an occasional grip to the camera if a beach shot jumps into my view.

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Street? Beach!

Bathers at Laigueglia Beach seen from out the water
1/640 sec – f/6.3 – ISO 100 – 15mm

Sure enough we spend ample time at the beach, during our Ligurian vacation. And this is always a good opportunity to put my rugged Olympus TG-4 camera to action. Because who says you can shoot street photography only on terra firma? Street? Beach! Sea!

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Learn from your images

Two young girls checking out a Chinese selfie making tourist
1/640 sec – f5.6 – ISO 200 – 100mm

I’m sure you know the feeling. You’re looking at one of your photographs that you actually like – but wonder if you should have taken it in a slightly different way. With different settings, different composition or in a different light.

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