I needed to reward myself and soothe my jangled nerves from all the stress I had. So I purchased S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky in advance. And today was the great day to set it up and stalk through the Zone once again. Oh, I love radiation!
EDIT: See below for some new insights about the critical start-up bug. Why me?!
This is just a little test to see how my sytlesheet is working for flickr blog-posts. I am not sure whether I want to say good-bye to the great NextGEN Gallery plug-in for WordPress I have been using all those years now. Should I really switch to flickr? What do you think?
And by the way: You just witness a major design-wise relaunch of the Promenade Blog, after the years I got a little bored with the standard visual appearance of this WordPress blog, so I stared in August 2007 a major redesign. But today I finally finished it in a couple of hours for the next couple of years. Although everything seems okay on first glance, there might happen some strange layouts on some pages — to be resolved soon.
This quote originally comes from Stefan Sagmeister’s little story he told the listeners in his lecture in Salzburg this March and is more or less the motto of my business trip to Salzburg, where I was photographing for the Salzburg Seminar, as you already know. And it was great! Meeting so many very interesting, very nice and very important personalities definitely is as enriching as it is exciting. And it was a good way to brush up my English because of the high intellectual level of the discussions and lectures I had to photograph. Below is a selection of the best photographs just for you. I will release some of them into public domain later on because Wikipedia is missing many of the speakers’ photographs.
Sorry folks, the final Zodiac handprint will be delayed a few days as it seems because I got a photographing job on short notice in Salzburg. I got a call from Ben Glahn who is Program Director of the Salzburg Seminar to photograph two days of the event. I am not only interested in taking photos but on the insight I get when listening to the big shots who will be there talking about this seminar’s subject of Balancing Security, Democracy, and Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism
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I had to promise Lisa to bring her an autograph of her idol Sandra Day O’Connor when I have the opportunity to. I just hope I won’t chicken out…
I better get some sleep because my train will leave in 3 hours… phew. See you in Salzburg!
Haven’t blogged in frickin’ ages! Currently I am in Berlin, photographing for Dropping Knowledge together with Lisa. A lot has happened. I will post an update, some photos and stuff as soon as I have the time to. Doesn’t sound promising, huh? Eventually I really do it.
Some of you might have seen me two days ago roaming around the endless corridors of the campus: Black shirt, shorts, worn flip-flops and a large black camera on a tripod on my shoulder. But why would I take pictures of the boring campus in medium format? Well… why not?
Last week Lisa and I needed a break. The more pressure you get, the more the walls feel like closing in on you around here. Probably also a side effect of my totally crammed little dorm room here. So I grabbed my Sony Alpha 100 and we sat into the car and went north and up on some winding little roads into the depth of the Salzburgian hinterlands. And I like taking photographs during driving.
Read the rest…
I am quite happy with Lightroom. Yes, I really are. Because I am a lunatic when it comes to archiving — anything. But why am I writing this?
Because I am spending some of my spare time revoking my “old” blog, I also took the liberty to upload large photos now — and much more of them.
Hopefully you are interested in the little shoot I enjoyed in February 2006 as third unit camera operator (w00ts!) in a real-world Counterstrike match shot in an old power plant in Voitsberg. If you are interested in a hunk (50+) of photos and the report, just click: Counterstrike Cobra. Enjoy the slide show or click on “Picture List” to select large versions of the photos! And better get used to the slide show tool on my blog.
Sometimes a scanned negative looks just like the one in the picture: Although there’s an area, like the snow, that should have a coherent tone, it’s sometimes darker and sometimes brighter - there’s even vignetting on the right side. In the darkroom this means to dodge and burn until you get away with it but this takes usually a lot of time. But in Photoshop everything’s a little easier.
