A meadow, which was not cut, in the cultivated palace garden in Bad Homburg. A beautiful sight. – Just in time to see the lilies of the valley. – This huge Cedar of Lebanon was planted in 1820, 190 years ago.
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Today out of date and hardly available: small compact cameras with optical viewfinder. Salesclerk say, you wouldn’t need any viewfinder, the displays are sooo good these days … But in bright sunny situations displays are rather awful, you see nothing. So I bought this little camera (18 mm thickness, with optical viewfinder) which fits in trouser pocket.
It was a surprise that there is software available for this (and other) Canons from an Open-Source CHDK . I can now save with this small, inexpensive camera even raw images (DNG files, 12 bit depth). Amazing.
Such images are sometimes referred to as “UNICEF” photos . Children with big eyes are always touching. This image is from Tamara-Diana Braunstein, established in New York. She moved to Dakar, Senegal, for a job as a teacher in the great Africa. Now, after two years of Africa, it works in Dortmund and Bochum. The image is not to generate pity, but to show the beauty, the pride and joy of life of people in Senegal. This is clear from the contents of the book, Tamara has written about this unusual two years.
This blog contains basically no commercial ads and things, but for this book in my mini-publishing company, I would like recommend this book (currently in print, subscription price of 10%). I read the vivid descriptions carefully and with joy. All in English, but with 86 color photographs of Tamara. No one-sided enthusiasm but critical view of daily life, religions and culture.
Note: There are few other blogs without commercial: here is a photographic blog by Thomas Pindelski
Few days ago I got the lens Panasonic 1.7/20mm:
This is a very fast lens, small, weight only 100gr. An example only with candle-light (at a distance of 1.50 m from the wall):
GH1, 20mm (=äquiv. 40mm), 1/8sec, f/1.7, ISO 1600 (freehand)
Wehrheim seen from the west, in the evening in September 2009, slightly distorted . In the foreground the airfield, in the background Winterstein-Steinkopf stone with the telecommunications tower. (Click on image)
