It's cold, it's raining, it's windy outside. Instead of strolling the clime I'm playing tilt & shift with some elderly pictures of my stack.
Different motives: 1 - City of Souda, Crete, Greece. 2 - Railway station of Blaubeuren, Germany. 1 - Waterslide at Legoland, Guenzburg, Germany. 4 - At the Stuttgart airport, Germany.
Strange. Right behind our house we found another small animal we never saw before. There were just no amphibians in the streets of Stuttgart (population 590.000) where we used to live for the last couple of years... Well, I had to lock it up and according to wikipedia, what we found was a young newt, an eft. Very cute, very cool - literally - and after a few minutes (and pictures) we let it free again. So don't worry. (2009 October 8th)
2009 October 4:
Another gorgious Indian Summer day. We went for a walk down the Blau-valley towards Blaubeuren and found several spots to place the camera...
Playing with http://tiltshiftmaker.com - some old stills, re-edited, some new pictures. They all deal with the area I live in - Swabian Alb, near Gerhausen (Blaubeuren), southern Germany. Enjoy my mock miniatures!
On my daily way to work, there's a bend in the road (B 28) to Blaubeuren after which I see a section of the landscape which looks like a model railway. Actually it looks exactly like nature the architects copied an artificial landscape of a "Maerklin" model railway. I tried to take some stills of it. But the impression didn't work at all in the pictures. Only after I found and used this fantastic little programm on the internet, you might get the impression of what I mean. Picture was taken in September 2009 and I edited it with http://tiltshiftmaker.com (this is a recommendation!).
Driving to work in the morning I saw these spiderwebs in a meadow, covered by pearls of dew and shining like silver in the early sun (2009 September 24, near Arnegg, Blau-valley).
This afternoon at home, coming back from another short photo excursion, I found something very neat crawling up my trousers. Usually, I'm not afraid of spiders. Not at all. But this never-before-seen animal, approaching on my right hip... Bet you all could hear the scream?
It was a female wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi, in German: Wespenspinne), not too long ago almost unknown on this side of the Alps. But climate change brings new visitors from southern Europe. More information may be found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_bruennichi) or here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wespenspinne (German).
2009 September 13, hiking. Rock formation in the woods between Blaubeuren and Schelklingen, near the famous cave "Geissenkloesterle".
2009 September, 9. Misty daybreak in the Blau-valley, near Arnegg
09 September 6, Late summer view on Blau-creek and Blau-valley, in Gerhausen, near Blaubeuren