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

alles rot!

since i don’t have a red filter, i had to think of something. something i could do without investing too much time and money. (i had a great idea which violates at least one of these two points.) while doing another boat trip on lake zürich today, i noticed that some walls inside the boat were red and reflecting: the perfect setting for a photo in red! the result shows me, a bit of lake zürich’s water and parts of the zürich gold coast. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/20s, f/10, 50mm, iso 200.

the trip also resulted in another “reddish” photo collection, which i like but which fits less well than the above photo. here it is:

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

teeparty.

for this topic, i needed a bit of help. mostly because i don’t want to eat and drink all the depicted things myself at once :-) but that’s what you have friends for, so i took my camera with me to university today and took this photo during coffee after lunch. well, the term “coffee” is used for all kinds of liquids and treats. this photo features hot chocolate (caotina, of course), tea, water and coffee, with vermicelles desserts and a cookie(?). caotina and vermicelles, two things i really missed while being in canada. if you ever visit me here, you have to try this combination as well…
please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/40s, f/16, 50mm, iso 200.

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

in & out.

obviously, this topic is aimed at fashion. and, well, as you might know, i don’t care much about fashion. in particular not about what the majority thinks is in & out. so i decided to interpret the topic differently. i quickly got the idea to photograph cars going in and out of a tunnel. there are two tunnel ends near to my place, so i started checking them out. one of them is not good for this, since there’s pretty dense vegetation where i should stand to take the photo. the other one is better, with only little vegetation, but a safety net which is always blocking the view a bit. well. tonight i got around to take some photos. it was not very easy to get cars enter and leave the tunnel at the same time (i guess during rush hour this is easier), so i decided to combine four shots into a nice arrangement. so here’s my in & out photo! please click the photo to get a larger version:

this time, i also have an alternative version. focussed not on the road, but some vegetation. i really love the bokeh of my wide open 50mm lens. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/100s, f/1.4, 50mm, iso 1600. arranged using gimp.

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

als ich klein war…

i’ve been playing around with some old toys yesterday, but after finding out that this seems to be a common idea for this topic, i decided to think more. when today, we made an excursion to a water reservoir nearby, where we often went when i was little, i watched out there if there’s something i can use. near the entry we often used, there’s a old, dead tree lying. when i was little, it was sooo huge, and we climbed on it a lot. well. nowadays it’s little itself, compared to me. so i decided to photograph this tree leftovers, rotting for like 30 years, in a way i might have seen it when i was little. using my fisheye lens, i started playing around, and got a nice shot of the ground end of the tree, which is caved out by now. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/250s, f/2.8, 16mm fisheye, iso 200.

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

lieblingsfarbe.

so finally i have snow, which i really could have used last week. well, that’s bad luck. but the good thing is, snow and shade encapsulates my two favorite colors, if there are any: black and white. (just look at this blog, which colors are prominently featured.) so i took one of the snow photos from today, made it black and white with my favorite photo editing program, gimp, and here it is. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/160s, f/5.6, 31mm, iso 100, aps-c; modified using gimp.

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

winterwunderland
(ist abgebrannt, und dann schreiend weggerannt).

well. last week, there was a lot of snow left, but this week, it’s all gone. almost all, that is. not that the leftovers are noteworthy; “wretched” describes the situation better. (and if i would have burnt wood or ashes, i would have decorated a bit of it, to add at least some dignity.) please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/40s, f/16, 50mm, iso 400.

here are some more snapshots i made while roaming through the house:

and finally, a little christmas tree:

i finally got around to do my first project 52 shot for the first week (i.e. last week). the topic was

schnappschuss.

while walking around the house, i happened to watch out of my window and had this fantastic view, which ended up as a snapshot. please click the photo to get a larger version:

technical details: 1/6400s, f/1.4, 50mm, iso 200.

arctica convinced me to take part in project 52 (and anmut also tried to convince me to do something like this, to give proper credit :-) ). every week, a topic will be released and everyone participating is supposed to shoot a photo with respect to this topic. the first topic is “snapshop”. expect something the next days…

helsinki.

after the stay in rovaniemi, we took the train back to helsinki and stayed a few days there as well. besides a concert of moonsorrow and korpiklaani, we visited some churches: the uspenski cathedral, the helsingin tuomiokirkko, as well as the temppeliaukio church. we were extremely happy to visit the temppeliaukio church when it was almost empty, which is apparently very unusual.

frozen harbor.

even though it was raining and the snow was melting, there was a lot of ice left in the harbor and rivers. here is a small impression of its beauty:

and here are some more pictures from the harbor area:

the sibelius monument.

we also visited the sibelius monument, a beautiful piece of modern art dedicated to the finnish composer jean sibelius. enjoy some impressions: