Panorama Photography
In landscape photography, nature often offers a lot more than you can freeze in a single exposure. To stitch several exposures together for a panoramic view, there are applications such as PTGui. The first and the last panorama show the famous alpine peaks Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau. The first shot was taken from Kleine Scheidegg [...]
Apple Aperture and New Cameras…
As nice as Apple’s Aperture 2 is… whenever there are new camera models coming out, it takes quite some time until Apple supports the specific image format. When Nikon brought the D3, I had to wait for an Apple OS X update to support Nikon’s NEF format for the D3. In the meantime, there was [...]
Stretching the Moment: David Claerbout
Today I’ve visited an exhibition about Venice in paintings over the last 200 years – from Canaletto to Turner to Monet. There were also lightboxes with photographs by David Claerbout, a Belgian artist born in 1969. I was impressed by his work called The Algiers´ Sections of a Happy Moment showing a small football pitch [...]
What’s Next?
After the Lausanne half-marathon, I’ve paused for half a week before taking up training again. I’ve had no problems at all with my legs or joints which was a bit of a surprise. I’ve done 80 km in the first two weeks after the race. Of course, I’ve been thinking about my next race. In [...]