Fall: Calm water surrounded by golden pine and larch woods in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland
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Vulcanos in the Mediterranean Sea
Wherever tectonic plates meet there is volcanic activity as in the Mediterranean sea where the northward-moving African plate meets the Eurasian plate. Sicily has the Etna and northward in the Tyrrhenian Sea there are the Liapri Islands with Vulcano, Stromboli and 5 other islands. Today I’d like to share 3 shots from 3 different vulcanos.
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Cotton Grass with dew in the Val Fex in the upper Engadin region of Switzerland. The shot is a 1/100 sec., F/8.0 and ISO 200 with an EF 24-70 mm f/4L IS USM at 70 mm on a Canon EOS 5DSR held in the hand.
Behind the Shot – Perseids Meteor Shower
In my last post I shared the same shot as one usually sees the sky. With some magic using Adobe Lightroom one can get much more out of such an image even though the human eye cannot see the sky like this.
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The 2016 Perseids Meteor Shower peaked between August 11th and 12th. Here I share a shot of August 12th with a meteor right above Piz Alv which is located in the Upper Engadin region in Switzerland.
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Today I’d like to publish a few animal shots from my latest trip to Scotland that all fit nicely to the theme of my website. Here a black-headed gull close to Durness in the north of Scotland. The shot was taken with 1/3200 sec. with f/5.6 and ISO 400. The lens was an EF 70-300 mm f/4-5.6L IS USM at 300mm on a Canon EOS 5DSR.
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Today I’d like to share two shots from my latest trip to Scotland that I added to the plants’ section of my portfolio. This thistle I found on the east side of the Isle of Skye. This shot was taken with 1/160 sec. and f/4.5 and ISO 400 with my EF 24-70 mm f/4L IS USM at 70 mm.
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High Dynamic Range (HDR) shooting is an effective tool when dealing with very light and very dark sections in a photo like in back light landscape photography. Using this feature the camera captures three images of different exposure in a row. The camera then calculates an “average” picture out of the underexposed, standard exposed and overexposed picture.
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This sunset at the westend of Little Loch Broom in the noth-west of Scotland was captured in July at half past nine pm. A pretty typical shot for Scottish landscape and atmosphere. The shot is a 1/100 sec, f/4.0, one aperture overexposed, ISO 100. The lens was a EF 24-70 mm f/4L IS USM at 40 mm on a Canon EOS 5DSR.
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On the occasion of today’s Swiss national holiday I’d like to publish a shot from a beautiful spot in Switzerland.
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structures & shapes 