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Of bees and buildings

2008-08-03

A little photo walk means photos, and photos mean a blog post – let’s start with nature:

Biene auf Distel 1

Biene auf Distel 2

Schwebfliege auf gelber Blüte Hummel im Anflug

bewohntes Blatt

Now on to the Pfaffenhofen main square construction work:

Hauptplatz 1

Hauptplatz 2

…and in the Löwenstraße (lion street) – watch out, the church spire will soon be gone!

Gerüst Kirchturm an der Kette

A lantern on the town hall balcony – will it enlighten the politicians?

Rathaus mit Lampe blaues Geländer

And finally an attempt at HDR tone mapping – photographed through the building (and a dirty window) with exposure correction ±2:

Ilmgau-Kaufhaus HDR

(» Flickr archive with these pictures)

Links of the Week (2008/28)

2008-07-13

  • German: Der Wissenschaft verpflichtet (Committed to science) – Speech at the German society for internal medicine’s congress in 1997 about scientific medicine and paramedicine. Worth reading if you speak German, but the background color should be forbidden1… (via EsoBlog).
  • PZ Myers about the questionable reactions on “holding a consecrated wafer hostage” – and reactions from readers.
  • 50 remarkable nature wallpapers (via Blogwiese)
  1. or changed, be it with Firebug or by copying the text into an editor [↩]

Seltsame Sporen

2008-07-02

This shows a few creatures I createt with the Spore Creature Creator from the upcoming game “Spore”. Hope you can enjoy them without further translation…

Lustige Sache jedenfalls, dieser Spore Creature Creator… Hier meine „Viecher“:

Für die erste Kategorie hab ich nichts, beginnen wir also mit diesem kleinen, irgendwie knuddligen Kerl – ich nenne ihn „Balli“:

Es folgt der unmögliche „Doppelkopf“ – mit Kopf an beiden Enden, könnte irgendwie Verdauungs- bzw. Ausscheidungsprobleme geben:

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Full moon #2

2008-06-23

This time, however, not about the nonsense full moon mysticism and astrology, but a few photographic tests of mine with my Canon 40D with Tamron 28-300mm VC (click for large versions, which are crops without size changes):

The full moon a few nights ago behind the city hall tower pinnacle – unfortunately the moon wasn’t high enough to get behind the ball or the vane, but only behind the middle part of the pinnacle, and I didn’t want to climb on the roof…; the second image is the not perfectly succeeded attempt to focus on the tower:
full moon full moon

With longer exposure, the moon gets too bright, of course, but you can dimly see the tower (yes, I should have focused on that) – first1 with 0.3s exposure time and without post-processing, then with 0.4s and a little color noise reduction and brightness curve adaption (if you don’t see anything above the ball above the moon, your monitor settings are wrong):
full moon full moon

I wouldn’t be opposed to hints from (not only) professionals… :)

  1. Photographed in the opposite order, of course, since the moon had moved farther to the west in the mean time. [↩]