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you can see a fence between
Austria and Hungary
Until 1989 it was the dangerous Iron curtain-
but now its safe to stroll along
Moschendorf/Suedburgenland/Austria
Serenita' é quando cio' che dici, cio' che pensi, cio' che fai, sono in perfetta armonia.
(Maratma Ghandi)
While I'm unsure on the exact former use of this General Railway System Co. structure in the deep woods on Stevens Pass, the lock had the letters "BN" carved into it. This caught my eye and I tried to get a semi-interesting photo of the lock, hopefully this passes as that. Over 30 years since the Burlington Northern merged to create BNSF, there's still traces of them deep on Stevens Pass.
I usually create my images with just one shot. I do bracket myself occasionally, but I haven't tackled panorama photography or focus stacking yet. Especially when taking pictures of moving objects like the northern lights here, a panorama picture is not really suitable. But for a long time I was annoyed that the colored northern lights shone so far next to the Vestrahorn that even with a 12mm focal length it was not possible to get the lights and the whole mountain in one picture. So I tried to put together the images of the entire mountain and the colored lights, which were created one after the other, using a panorama program. Surprisingly, the result looks quite good...
Trace sur l'Arête des Cosmiques au pied du Grand Gendarme avec vue sur le Mont Blanc du Tacul (4248m) dans le Massif du Mont Blanc (Haute-Savoie).
“Sand Patterns” — Patterns in sand dunes, Death Valley National Park.
Our main photographic targets on our late-February trip to Death Valley were Lake Manly and the impressive wildflower bloom. But we did schedule one morning for a visit to the sand dunes. We arrived well before sunrise — it was still to dark to see our way into the dunes. Unfortunately, this was not going to be a morning for grand dune photographs, since morning overcast blocked the sunlight. So instead we focused on more intimate subjects — plants and flowers, the morning traces of the passage of wildlife, and the textures of windblown sand.
I’ll break with the tradition of the these posts and write a bit about a technical photographic topic. A challenge of photographing the sand is that, unless you photograph straight down or fine a suitably slanted bit of sand, depth of field is a problem. I use a solution that surprisingly few photographers seem to apply. I have a tilt/shift lens adapter for my landscape camera that lets me attach a medium format zoom lens and use the adapter’s movements to angle the pane of focus to match the surface of the dunes.