August 22nd, 2010

Macro Adventure

Today I attended a macro workshop, organised in cooperation with Photo Video Marlin, with the emphasis on using household items. In some distant years I ran after bugs and butterflies and photographed some flowers. Trouble with natural subjects is that they move …. duh … but that is the problem of macro. Flowers rock in [...]

August 15th, 2010

Coucal Portrait

This image was created in Botswana on our newyear’s bush trip with our friends from South Africa. Near our campsite, a waterhole attracted a wide range of birds. Normally shy and not eager to leave the comfort of the thick vegitation, Burchell’s Coucals are hard to see in the open. I was sitting in a [...]

August 4th, 2010

August 1st in Basel

As always the Swiss National day is celebrated with some spectacular fireworks on the Rhein in the center of Basel. I had a good position in relation to the firing pontoon and was able to take a few nice images. My experience has taught me to get a long exposure of around 2 seconds. This [...]