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Looks like summer is over – here at least. We’ve been having this dreary weather since the weekend, and it’s been raining almost without interruption. The trees have started loosing their leaves, and it looks an awful lot like autumn already. Just that it’s still august …  "End of summer" | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/5, 1/640 sec, ISO 200 | Vignetting and grain added in Lighroom I’ve come past one of their graffiti’s several times, but recently they seem to have decided to “decorate” some more places with it. In the second picture, they seem to have been disturbed while painting “Locos”, and in the third, they didn’t even get that far.
For a larger version, please visit the gallery. Today’s sunset was accompanied by dark thunderclouds and heavy rain. Sitting on the bus on my way home from work, the landscape stretching out in front of us carried a special mood you only feel during summer storms at late afternoon or early evening. I wanted to capture this mood, and when I saw the hay bales and trees approaching, I knew this was the perfect setting. I hope this picture transports a bit of that mood which I felt at the time of shooting it.  "Stormy Summer Sunset" | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/1250 sec, ISO 200 Hi everyone, I’m back from vacation in Tyrolia, Austria, and have brought with me huge amounts of pictures! In fact, I’ve taken so many pix I still have some left to process. We’ve had a wonderful time there, and even though the weather was mixed and unstable, we enjoyed a few sunny days and did a lot of hiking. Emil had the greatest fun having all his grandparents around, and learned a lot of new things. We’re back refreshed and with loads of new energy! As I announced earlier, I’m going to write a guest article for Steve Huff’s site, about the Zeiss Biogon 2/35 ZM on the Leica M8 and Olympus E-P1. This article will feature quite a few pictures from our trip to Tyrolia, and I will also put up a dedicated gallery as soon as I’ve got all pictures processed. For now, I’d like to present you with some snaps from yesterday evening, when we had wonderful golden light and a great cloudy sky, which allowed for some beautiful captures! The pictures were taken with the E-P1 and either the Lumix 20/1.7 or the kit zoom, using (where applicable) the new-to-me Olympus VF-1 optical viewfinder, which is a great addition to the E-P1+20/1.7 combo.  Golden hour above the fields | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/5, 1/640 sec, ISO 200 We’re heading off to Austria for vacations tomorrow morning, so I wanted to present you with one last potd before I’m absent for two weeks. I might or might not have internet access in Austria, so I might not be able to post any updates during that time. This shot is actually an older one, from our visit to the zoo early last month, but I only got to processing it today.  "Ingoti" | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 45-200 @ 45mm, f/4, 1/500 sec, ISO 200 I’ll take with me my complete camera gear, i.e. the E-P1 + kit zoom, 20/1.7, and 45-200, the M8 + Biogon 2/35, and my Yashica film rangefinder, loaded with Ilford HP5+. I’ll be shooting the Biogon also on the E-P1 (via adapter), and will write a guest article about the lens on the M8 and E-P1 for Steve Huff’s website, so stay tuned for that! So, see you in two weeks then! |
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