Category: XF16mmF1.4
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List auf Sylt and Ellenbogen
If the wind doesn’t blow too hard, it can be an easy ride from List to the north-end of Sylt, where the two lighthouses stand. Otherwise the predominant west winds can make it a long way back.
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Sylt, dunes and a wooden plank path
leaving behind a settlement of reet thatched roof houses a wooden plank path leads west and north to the dunes now bathed in sunset light.
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the old mill at the bogland
behind the fields and the forest, in the middle of the bogland, over the half-broken planks bridge stand the old forgotten mill east of Markt Schwaben.
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light at night
museums are closed. museums are still there for the people. city is people. city is light at night.
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the Fujinon XF 16mm F1.4
this one is a qualitative leap from the XF18mmF2 but at the cost of weight and size. The lens is specially much sharper in the edges and the shorter 2mm focal distance opens up new compositional possibilities.
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the regatta course and the summer storm
in a warm summer afternoon the sky darkens suddenly and a storm rolls very fast over the 1972 Munich Olympic Games Regatta course taking some casual rowers by surprise. The course lays some 15Km north of Munich and it is declared a historical site.
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overcast and out in Graswangtal
gray low clouds lay heavily over the Graswangtal turning it into a more somber version of itself. The red tint of the iron rich river Ammer becomes omnius.
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awe between the Alps and the Dreisessel
if the weather plays nicely, the winter dry air and the low sun beams cast a dramatic view of the Alps seen from the Dreisessel in the Bayericher Wald.
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the old town and the townspeople gone
Cesky Krumlov, jewel of European Renaissance, abandoned in the 20th Century, and turned asian tourism Mecca, struggles to redefine its “raison d’être”.
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Maximiliansforum and eeriness
An eerie space, escalators that are not escalators, an under-passage that it is not quite one, an art exposition hidden behind graffiti smeared displays
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