as you might have noticed, all videos embedded from youtube or vimeo got replaced by a disclaimer, stating that i do not want to bear the legal risks of including them anymore. including something you didn’t create yourself is kind of russian roulette. if someone decides to send you a abmahnung, trouble begins. and usually, money goes. lots of money. even if what you do is legal, you’ll have to invest quite some money to make your point. i don’t really want to do this for these videos, so i changed my plugin to let it spit out disclaimers with links instead of embedding* the video. i’m sorry for this, in particular this essentially ruins musikwiese.

*the videos weren’t embedded directly for some time anyway, see here, but i guess that wouldn’t really make difference…

today i saw moon, a 2009 science fiction movie. i’ve heard about the movie before, maybe seen a trailer, or maybe read a review, but i’ve never managed to see it until i found it on dvd on friday. it is about a guy working alone on a moon base, mining helium-3. close to his three year contract, he’s looking forward to return home, to his wive and daughter. he starts seeing things, until a fatal accident and someone’s too big curiosity brings everything out of control. leads to an unpleasant discovery. (if you want to know more, read the synopsis on wikipedia.) the movie is well made, and one particularly great part is the soundtrack, composed by clint mansell. parts of it became an earworm for me:

here’s my project 52 shot for the thirtyninth week. the topic was

zeichen der zeit.

and another photo from glarus, also taken in schwanden. from the beginning of this year on, the twentyfour (more or less) small cities in glarus were divided into three municipalities, among them glarus süd, of which schwanden is a part. having a population of less than 10,000, glarus süd is not exactly close to being metropolitan. nonetheless, some people might have a different opinion on this. and maybe eventually, we will all be broothers. whatever this is. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/40s, f/8, 35mm, iso 200.

here’s my project 52 shot for the thirtyeigth week. the topic was

froschperspektive.

i was thinking about this topic, until i was walking in elm and suddenly had this view of elm’s church. it was just perfect for this topic. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/250s, f/8, 28mm, iso 200.

here’s my project 52 shot for the thirtyseventh week. the topic was

frischluft.

there is nothing better than fresh air, coming straight out of a factory’s chimney. happy coughing.
photo taken in kemi. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/200s, f/5.6, 210mm, iso 200.

here’s my project 52 shot for the thirtysixth week. the topic was

märchenhaft.

a quite obvious choice for this topic was something from a certain night near ivalo in the finnish lappland. the scenery was so beautiful, just so fantastically, with the fog creeping around, at low level, not too dense, while the mostly clear sky depicted auroras. this shot has no aurora – i already used that here – but fits in my opinion even better to this week’s topic. i enhanced the colors a bit in gimp. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 25s, f/8, 50mm, iso 3200. modified using gimp.

the project 52 topic for the thirtyfifth week would be shabby chic. i decided to skip this one as well.

here’s my project 52 shot for the thirtyfourth week. the topic was

tatort.

a mouse. killed from behind, while being trapped. gone to water. already dead, probably for some days. it’s hard to say who killed it. was it the boat owner, by leaving the boat there? was it the rain, by filling up the boat? was it suicide, as the mouse entered the boat by free will? or was it chased there? are there any witnesses? any alive ones, even?
photo taken at lake inari; an overview of the “crime scene” can be seen here. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/125s, f/5.6, 400mm, iso 800.

here’s my project 52 shot for the thirtythird week. the topic was

unterwasserwelt.

i took the photo near to kirkenes at the coast of the barents sea. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/160s, f/5.3, 220mm, iso 400.

here’s my project 52 shot for the thirtysecond week. the topic was

durch die rosane brille.

nature. mountains. cows. peaceful landscape. everything is beautiful. no bad things happening. everything’s clean. no dirt.
decide for yourself… photo taken at the almabtrieb in elm. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/320s, f/8, 400mm, iso 200.