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:
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):
“Child”, in this case, referring to the new plants arising next to the mother plant in vegetative reproduction. Like at my guzmania a couple years ago, see image on the right. But instead of separating the children and plant them into little pots of their own (and put up with these 5 pots), I rather kept them together in their big pot.
In the mean time, the mother plant died, of course, as did one child; and now, one of the children (the one with the best lighting conditions) is bright red and preparing to blossom:
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Larger versions at Flickr…
A little waterfall with 1/8000 second exposure time:
The top of the maypole of Pfaffenhofen/Ilm – of course fitting the “heart of the hop land Hallertau”:
And there’s a “1.4” to go with the “50mm”, since this is about my new lens, the Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM.
First test object, especially to compare the depths of focus, was my greening Christmas star (poinsettia), the longevity of which I wrote about here in late February, here first with maximum aperture of 1.4:
And with aperture 8:
If you’re interested: On this gallery page I’ve got seven more aperture steps.
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