Rural Impressions 2020 – Part 1

I love living in the countryside, surrounded by beautiful forests. Here are some rural summer impressions from the last 2-3 weeks.

If you want to see a picture in a higher resolution, just click on it.

Part 2 soon to come.

Have a nice week everyone!

Sunflower (Essential)

Today’s picture is inspired by my series called Essential which I created back in 2010 (also to be found on my Portfolio Page) and which long time followers might remember.
This time I chose a different composition though.
In the next days I am going to post an alternative version on my Flickr page.

In The Garden

A few days ago I felt like taking a few macro shots, so I put on my Sigma 105mm 1:2.8 macro prime lens on one of my Nikon DSLRs and just went outside.
That was a good decision as I managed to get some decent pictures (click to enlarge; others to follow in the next weeks).
I really love this lens. In combination with a Nikon body you get an incredible sharpness (sometimes it can be brutal), no post processing required whatsoever in this regard.
When I use it for portraits (headshots) I really have to soften everything (you know what I mean).

BTW: Thanks to all new followers on various Social Media and of course thanks to all those who are still there after so many years.

Cheers,

Timo

Organism

I was at a friend’s birthday party and luckily I had my favorite lens with me, a nifty fifty macro.
Here are two shots…
As always, you can enlarge them by clicking on them.

And to quote Alan Watts:

“There’s an interdependence between flowers and bees — where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.”

Smartphone Week 3 – Day 7 – Aura

Here we are – the final picture of the 3rd Smartphone Week.
Hope you enjoyed it… 😉