Amazing photography – China’s Desertification
I was reading Resolve and stumbled upon this blog entry called "Editing on the road helps focus long photo stories". It's a very worthy watch and the photos and the story are amazing.
The work belongs to Sean Gallagher a photojournalist living and working in China, who won a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting in February for his work on the country’s desertification.
No need for much more text from me, just head over to this link here China's Growing Sands and watch the video and read the entry.
Self Portrait Friday – Week IV
Today I was asking for ideas related to this week's SelfPortraitFriday, but the traffic was incredibly low on the subject and I got nothing back. After getting home from work the idea of not doing today's portrait lingered until late in the evening (European time), but in the end here it is:
It represents myself of course, as the glass wearing guy that I am and as you can see it also contains another thing representative for myself, the reflection of the monitor on my glasses. I spend way too much time in front of the monitor.
Equipment used:
- Canon EOS 1000D
- Canon 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 kit lens
- UV Filter on the lens
- TFT Monitor as main light source from front left (left of the glasses)
- TV as second light source masked by a tall leather chair from behind so only a little bit of light got on teh glasses through reflection (needed more tries due to commercials on TV and bad single hand camera holding shake)
- Processed with Digital Photo Professional and Gimp.
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Vienna-Austria-II
As promised in Vienna part I, here is part two of the recent Vienna trip post series. I'm not going to write too much, best to just put forth the photographs I took. Hope you enjoy.
Belvedere
There are in fact two palaces on the Belvedere grounds and they lie in the middle of a splendid park. These were constructed by the famous Baroque architect J.L. von Hildebrandt, for Prince Eugene of Savoy .
Vienna Clock museum
This tiny finger sized clock above is the worlds smallest pendulum clock!
Spanish riding school night shot
As advertised by the school, "the Spanish Riding School in Vienna is the only institution in the world which has practiced for over 430 years and continues to cultivate classical equitation in the Renaissance tradition of the haute école."
Rathaus - City Hall
Vienna's Rathaus (City Hall) is one of the most splendid amongst the numerous monumental buildings of Austria's capital. It was designed by Friedrich Schmidt and was erected between 1872 and 1883. The City Hall was built in gothical style, with a tower similar to gothic cathedrals.
Burgteather vis-a-vis from the Rathaus
Empress Maria Theresia handed over an unused dance-parlour to a theatre-company named Sellier in 1741. Later, in 1888, the company moved into a closeby house designed and erected by C. von Hasenauer together with Gottfried Semper. This building was used as theatre house since then.
It is also knows as 'Burg' or 'Haus am Ring' .