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Captured driving between Portland and Seattle. ( I was not the driver.)
Edited for Sliders Sunday using Snapseed and Deep Dream Generator. HSS everyone!
I am not a fan of these disgusting, prehistoric looking bugs, but I decided Sliders Sunday was the perfect way to show it off! HSS!
I'm a little late to the Sliders Sunday game this week. In terms of sliders, I didn't do much here--just a slight filter to change the tones. HSS!
Explored March 13, 2023
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The new staircase at the KaDeWe, kaleidoscoped for Sliders Sunday.
The KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens = Department Store of the West) in Berlin's borough of Schöneberg is Germany's most renowned department store. With a selling space of more than 60,000 sq / 650,000 square feet, it is also Europe's second-largest department store (after Harrod's in London). Today, it attracts about 50,000 visitors every day. In 1905, merchant and businessman Adolf Jandorf commissioned architect Emil Schaudt to design a luxury department store on Tauentzienstraße at the heart of (West) Berlin. Tauentzienstraße is one of Berlin's major shopping streets and is, although, of course, a street in its own right, what one could call a direct "extension" of the famous Kudamm/Kurfürstendamm boulevard. The KaDeWe was opened on 27 March 1907. Ever since, it has seen numerous extensions, refurbishments, and owner changes. One of its major attractions is the food hall on the sixth floor.
I haven't been to the KaDeWe in ages. But recently, I stumbled upon a photo of an interesting-looking staircase/escalator here on Flickr – and to my great surprise that photo had been taken at the KaDeWe. So last week, my mom (magrit k.) and I decided to visit the store, equipped with our cameras, and have a look at the new staircase. What I can say is that this "Escheresque" staircase is very interesting indeed and that it's a great photo subject as well.
It was a short visit, however, because all we really did was photograph said staircase. The KaDeWe has changed so substantially, especially in the past 10 to 15 years, that it really isn't "our store" anymore. What I remember as an airy, generous, spacious place with a nice "vibe" to it, has turned into an almost smallish "monster store" packed with expensiveness. Maybe I'm a little unfair; I will soon revisit the KaDeWe because last week I'd only brought the little LX100 along (I wasn't sure if people with "big" cameras would be accepted there or if we'd get in trouble with security staff, but no one really cared about our photographic antics at the staircase), so I will return with my OM-1 and the wide-angle zoom. And maybe I will take some time to explore the "new KaDeWe". You will definitely see more of this staircase ("un-kaleidoscoped" photos, for instance) in the future :)
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone!
Took this image of the old part of Tallinn and ran it through Paintshop Pro to give it the old photograph feel.
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#yourbestshot2020
This is my personal "Best Shot of 2020". Taken during a visit at the Olympiastadion Berlin in September which also had been my only real photowalk in 2020. While the image in the first comment might be a little more compelling, because it shows the historical Olympic cauldron of the Olympic Summer Games of 1936 and also the interesting-looking open part of the roof of the Olympic stadium, this image includes the two things that made an already wonderful day special – and one of them also is a symbol for the changes the Corona pandemic has brought to our lives. The image of the Olympic cauldron was taken from the exact opposite position of this photo; while we were at the Olympic cauldron (here you can't see it, but you can see the marathon gate below the tall, slim bell tower), I noticed that all of a sudden a larger group of teenagers and children appeared at the opposite entrance of the stadium. I wondered what was going on, because I couldn't imagine that in those pandemic times there would be any school field trips. And soon it became clear what this was all about, because once the children had taken their places, they started to warm up by singing scales: This was a choir practice :) Of course I tried to find out which choir it was that got the marvellous opportunity to practice in the empty stadium, with enough, safe distance to each other, so I searched for "choir practice at the Olympiastadion" later and learned that this was the youth and children's choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (STRG/CTRL+ www.berlin-buehnen.de/en/theatres/deutsche-oper-berlin/). Here you can read more about this unusual collaboration if you like: STRG/CTRL+ olympiastadion.berlin/en/news/children-choir/.
And so the rest of our photowalk was accompanied by beautiful singing which tremendously added to the elated, relaxed, literally free mood of that day :) What a wonderful, unexpected gift which was made even better by that wonderful sunset we saw when we went back into the stadium for a few last shots: This was my personal "Wow moment" of 2020 :)
Dear Flickr, friends, I wish you a Happy and Healthy 2021! Let's hope that, step by step, the "new normal" will eventually be replaced by our old normal, at least a little bit :)
Für mich mein schönstes Foto des Jahres 2020. Aufgenommen im September im Berliner Olympastadion, das herrlich leer gewesen war an jenem Tag, sodass wir unbeschwert nach Fotomotiven suchen konnten. Das Foto im ersten Kommentar, das die Original-Feuerschale der Sommerspiele von 1936 und den interessanten offenen Teil der Dachkonstruktion zeigt, ist vielleicht das spannendere Bild, aber es zeigt nicht die zwei Dinge, die diesen ohnehin schon tollen Spätsommer-Tag zu etwas ganz Besonderem gemacht haben: Als wir bei der Feuerschale waren, die sich exakt gegenüber von dem Stadion-Eingang befindet, von dem ich später dieses Foto gemacht habe, sah ich auf einmal eine ziemlich große Grupper Kinder und Jugendlicher ins Stadion kommen, was mich doch wunderte, weil ich mir kaum vorstellen konnte, dass in Pandemie-Zeiten größere Schulausflüge möglich sein würden. Des Rätsels Lösung: Sobald die Kinder alle ihre Plätze eingenommen hatten, fingen sie auch schon an, sich einzusingen. Und nicht etwa mit Fußballgesängen ;) Es fand eine Chorprobe im Olympiastadion statt, dem zu normalen Zeiten wohl unwahrscheinlichsten Ort zumindest für klassische Chorgesänge, zu Corona-Zeiten aber wie dafür gemacht: mit recht guter Akustik und genügend freier Fläche, um mit Abstand und dennoch gemeinsam singen zu können. Ich habe dann später recherchiert, welcher Chor das wohl gewesen sein könnte; es handelte sich um den Kinder- und Jugendchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin: STRG/CTRL+ olympiastadion.berlin/de/neuigkeiten/kinderchor/.
Was für eine tolle, fast schon surreale Atmosphäre das war, der dann zum Schluss auch noch der herrliche Sonnenuntergang mit diesem typisch goldenen Septemberlicht die Krone aufsetzte :) Mein persönlicher "Wow-Moment" des daran gewiss nicht reichen Jahres 2020 :)
Ich wünsche Euch allen ein gesundes und, trotz aller Ein- und Beschränkungen, die uns wohl noch eine ganze Weile begleiten werden, schönes Jahr 2021!
Captured in the Russellville Park courtyard and processed for Sliders Sunday using Deep Dream Generator and Snapseed.
HSS everyone!
This is a purple tulip on a yellow background with lots of sliding.
First I did a hefty twirl then inverted it, then adjusted the hues. Finally blended it with an ICM image. Just a bit of fun for Sliders Sunday. HSS
Composite. Figures from a painting found in a charity store and added tp the moonlight.
HSS!
Sliders Sunday.
(I need to revisit this one again to edit but not today)
Slider's Sunday
A vase of tulips in crazy colours. And yes, I am a lover of tulips, one of my favorite flowers to be sure!
For Sliders Sunday -- Post Processed To The Max
Happy Sliders Sunday : ) HSS!
I rolled two colored papers, placed one inside the other, and had a sheet of purple construction paper in the background. In post I added a Flickr filter called Low Fire to enhance the color saturation.
Clouds are similar
but never the same.
Sometimes angry
and sometimes tame.
As the dark clouds clear
and the sun peeks through
there's only one thing
left to do,
take a picture
for me and for you :-)
(A brief poem by me)
The view from my home here in West Wales looking down a valley at the skies beyond. I adjusted shadow, contrast and saturation in LR5 and added Tone Map High and increased definition in PSP21.
Canon PowerShot SX430 IS
f/7.1
1/1000
8.1 mm
ISO 200
Dedicated to RHC (ILYWAMHASAM)
HSS!
Here's a bunch of squeaky-fresh, happy, sunshiny blue sky tulips for you :)
Well, they were fresh when I photographed them a few weeks ago, and they stayed fresh on my camera's memory card ;) And they are very happy to be here, indeed, because actually these are "HDR exposure bracketing tulips" which weren't meant for a Flickr appearance. One night I wanted to ckeck out how much better (or just different) a five image HDR would turn out compared to the three image HDRs I'd always taken so far. So I didn't bother to move the ironing board (which was in the frame, too) aside or get up and find something subtle, plain to put behind the tulips as an unobstrusive background.
The result: a nice tulip HDR, in fact so nice that I thought I'd share the tulips with you, but a rather busy living room background even at f/2.8. This, I guess, is one of those photographic situations where a full frame camera, compared to MFT, plays to its strenghts. But since the tulips were actually pretty well isolated against the background, it was really easy to mask the latter out, and use a different background. I opted for the "classic" black first, but found it boring (compared to achieving a dark background with photographic means).
So I flipped through my images, found a few nice cloud photos, and thought, "Why not something a little kitschy, a little funky for a change?," although the sunset sky I'd chosen first was a little too kitschy even for my taste ;) But the simple, minimalist "lots of blue sky and a single cloud" background you can see here actually looks rather nice, methinks (there's also an airplane with long vapour trails in the image, but it's hidden behind the tulips).
The image then kind of framed itself. How? Well, I hadn't deleted the layer with the black background, and had added the layer with the cloud image as a "middle layer" between the tulip layer and the background layer - and since the cloud image was taken with a 16 MP cam (the E-M5 II), while the tulip image has 20 MP, all of a sudden there was broad black frame around the tulips and sky. Which I also liked, somehow, but in the end decided to change the black to blue (because the black frame looked a little too harsh in the final image) and I've also slightly enlarged the cloud image, because I thought a not too broad "frame" (that is actually another background) would look better as well.
Wishing you a Happy Weekend, stay safe, sane, and healthy :)
Wochenend-Tulpen
Es ist mal wieder Zeit für ein paar Blümchen. Quietschig-frische, fröhliche Schönwetter-Tulpen, mal etwas anders präsentiert. Eigentlich waren diese Tulpen, die ich vor ein paar Wochen fotografiert hatte, gar nicht für Flickr gedacht, handelt es sich doch um HDR-5er-Belichtungsreihe-Testtulpen. Ich wollte eines Abends mal ausprobieren, wie sehr sich eine Belichtungsreihe aus fünf Fotos von den HDRs mit drei Bildern, die ich bis dato immer gemacht hatte, unterscheidet – und da kamen die Tulpen auf dem Wohnzimmertisch gerade recht. Allerdings hatte ich das Bügelbrett nicht beiseite geräumt und es war mir auch nicht in den Sinn gekommen, einfach etwas Einfarbiges hinter die Vase zu stellen. Warum auch, es war ja bloß ein Test. Und so hatte ich dann zwar hübsche HDR-Tulpen, die doch irgendwie "Flickr-würdig" aussahen, aber einen recht unruhigen Wohnzimmer-Hintergrund, selbst bei Offenblende. Eine fotografische Situation, in der eine Vollformat-Kamera sicher ihre Stärken voll ausgespielt hätte, nur habe ich keine ;)
Allerdings waren die Tulpen gegen den Hintergrund doch so gut und klar abgegrenzt, dass es ein Leichtes war, sie freizustellen und den Hintergrund einfach zu ersetzen. Zunächst dachte ich an schlichtes Schwarz, fand das aber doch etwas langweilig (im Vergleich zu einem mit fotografischen Mitteln erzielten dunklen Hintergrund). Da fielen mir meine vielen Wolkenfotos ein und ich dachte "Warum nicht?". Der Sonnenuntergangs-Wolkenhimmel, den ich dann zuerst ausprobiert hatte, war mir dann doch zu kitschig, aber das Foto mit der einen Wolke vor blauem Himmel, das Ihr hier als Hintergrund seht (und auf dem sich eigentlich auch noch ein Flugzeug mit langen Kondensstreifen befindet, das hier aber von den Tulpen verdeckt wird) fand ich recht schick zusammen mit dem bunten Strauß.
Das Bild hat sich dann auch noch quasi selbst gerahmt. Wie das? Ganz einfach: Das Wolkenbild hatte ich mit einer 16-MP-Kamera (der E-M5 II) und die Tulpen mit der 20-MP E-M1 III aufgenommen. Und auf einmal hatte ich deshalb einen dicken Rahmen von der noch nicht gelöschten Ebene mit dem schwarzen Hintergrund um die freigestellten Tulpen und die Wolkenebene herum. Ich habe dann das Wolkenfoto noch etwas größer gezogen, um den "Rahmen", der ja eigentlich ein zweiter Hintergrund ist, etwas zu verkleinern, und das Schwarz durch ein weniger hartes, etwas dunkleres Blau ersetzt. Fertig war ein Foto, dass sich mehr oder weniger zufällig ergeben hat ;)
Ich wünsche Euch ein schönes WE, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt weiter gut auf Euch auf und bleibt entspannt :)