A 300mm lens is (not even with the additional 1.6x crop factor) no telescope, but you can recognize tonight’s partial lunar eclipse: 
Of bees and buildings
A little photo walk means photos, and photos mean a blog post – let’s start with nature:
Now on to the Pfaffenhofen main square construction work:
…and in the Löwenstraße (lion street) – watch out, the church spire will soon be gone!
A lantern on the town hall balcony – will it enlighten the politicians?
And finally an attempt at HDR tone mapping – photographed through the building (and a dirty window) with exposure correction ±2:
Links of the Week (2008/28)
- 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)
- or changed, be it with Firebug or by copying the text into an editor ↺
Projekt 52 week 27: Colorful
The topic of week 28 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
Colorful
Bright colors? No problem – and there even was no image enhancement necessary (I just cropped it a little):
Seltsame Sporen
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: