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Updated: May 20, 2013 5:37am PST

blog #01 - FIRST SHOTS : THE FIRST SHOTS

My first SLR was a simple Nikon F75. Digital cameras had been at that time out of question for me for a simple reason: there was no digital SLR which was affordable for me with a reasonable picture quality / resolution.
However, after having a couple of point and shoot cameras before, this SLR did let me feel like a pro! The results from the first tries, you can see some of them here in this journal. This was the start point for me to become interested in photography, an interest which became (and still becomes) stronger with every shutter release...

blog #01 - FIRST SHOTS

blog #2 - DRIVE & SHOOT :

blog #2 - DRIVE & SHOOT

Updated: Mar 08, 2013 6:46pm PST

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#011 - 06 March 2013
High-rise building in San Francisco. This shot was made already a while back, I always wanted to give it some sort of processing (the original file looks a bit boring) but didn't know what. Today I finally did it, hope you like it!

Thanks for all your comments in the past first 10 days (my first 10 days) DailyPhotos! I try to keep up with you! :)

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#034 - 29 March 2013

The center part of the exterieur of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (上海科技馆). The globe is pretty big and I am with my cam pretty small and close to it, so this image got lots of perspective distortion. This actually doesn't matter for the globe too much, but for the pillars beside.... Would like to try that with a tilt - shift lens one day :)

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#030 - 25 March 2013

Simple formula: Light + Water = Reflections
The image shows a part of the still existing buildings constructed for the World EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, China.

To make the reflections a bit more confusing the image is 180 deg rotated (not flipped)... If you have a closer look to the center of the image you will see some person staying upside down.

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#051 - 22 April 2013

Picture taken on a place called "Three Pools Mirroring the Moon" in the Westlake, Hangzhou, China.

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#003 - 26 February 2013
A mandarin duck couple in Suzhou, China. Mandarin ducks are believed to be lifelong couples in Asian, in particular Chinese, culture. Consequently they are often used as symbols by weddings and in Chinese art.
Unfortunately it was not a very bright day, so I was forced to go up with the ISO to get a decent sharp image...

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#053 - 24 April 2013

THE BUND / 外滩

The Bund is is a waterfront area in central Shanghai, P.R. China.

The word "bund" means an embankment or an embanked quay. The word comes from the Hindi-Urdu word band, which has Persian origins and meant an embankment, levee or dam (a cognate of English terms "bind", "bond" and "band", and the German word "Bund", etc). In Chinese port cities, the English term came to mean, especially, the embanked quay along the shore. In English, "Bund" is pronounced to rhyme with "fund".

There are numerous sites in India, China, and Japan which are called "bunds" (e.g. the Yokohama Bund). However, "The Bund", without qualification as to where, can perhaps be taken to refer to this stretch of embanked riverfront in Shanghai. (From Wikipedia)

The image is taken from the Pudong side of The Bund acros the river to Puxi with it's old buildings on the waterfront.

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#057 - 28 April 2013

GOLDEN HAWK
A Golden Hawk is parking some place close to Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco.

The image got a slight HDR treatment.

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PUDONG / 浦东

Pudong is a part of Shanghai, China. Beside all the different districts Shanghai is divided by the Huangpu river into the older, original part called Puxi and the new districts in Pudong.

The image is taken from Puxi across the Huangpu river showing the financial district of Pudong, Lujiazui (陆家嘴). Development of this area bagan in the early 1990's. The skyine of Lujiazui, most commonly seen from the "Bund" in Puxi is now one of the major tourist spots of Shanghai.

SKUNK TRAIN
The rusty remains of a rail car, once part of the Skunk Train and now on the holding track in Fort Bragg, California.

HDR image.

#063 - 07 May 2013

I Never had something so excessive post processed online before....

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#067 - 11 May 2013

A old, traditional bridge in the mountains of Anhui province, China. In the background the new bridge for the newly constructed road.
I am not sure, but I think this old bridge was used as a kind of shelter and store as well, this side on the image is closed while the other side is open.

#027 - 22 March 2013
We met some cute Chipmunks playing together in Yellowstone and they kept running quickly down and up the tree. That Chipmunk here was posing for a short while, looking directly into the camera to let us take a shot or two.

CORRECTION: Thanks to Bill-Stone-and-Daughter I got a bit smarter and know now that this is NOT a Chipmunk but a Golden-manteled Ground Squirrel!

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#031 - 26 March 2013

Spring time and a busy bee.

I am not a plant / tree expert, but I think this tree is usually referred to as Callistemon or "bottelbrush tree". This shot was made in the streets of San Francisco.

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#022 - 17 March 2013
Below Nanpu Bridge in Shanghai, China. This image got a slight HDR treatment to highlight the structure / frames of the bridge.

In case you had been in Shanghai: YES, THE SKY WAS REALLY BLUE!!!

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#048 - 19 April 2013

I have no idea what kind of dragonfly this is, never saw such a red one before! This image was taken in Hainan island, in the south of China.

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#064 - 08 May 2013

-- PINK -- PINK -- PINK -- PINK -- PINK --

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#073 - 18 May 2013

Frog on Lotus

#015 - 10 March 2013
End of winter season! Well.... I wish so and actually, after far above 20 deg. Celsius yesterday, temperaturs dropped overnight down to about 10 again. Looking for my daily picture for today I found this one, taken about one month ago. This dredger barge was trapped in thick ice of the frozen sea.

Have a warm and sunny Sunday!

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#024 - 19 March 2013
Long time ago that I posted an image from an animal, so I would like to upload one today.

I believe this is a common Raven. You might see the car I took the shot from in the eyes....

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#025 - 20 March 2013
The Gibbon Falls in the Yellowstone National Park.

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#065 - 09 May 2013

Have a break - Have a coffee!

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SUSPENSION
A shot straight up in the middle of the road on a suspension bridge.

#044 - 15 April 2013

Night shot of the 8-turns in the Lombard street, while this image was shot half way down and doesn't shows all turns.

I wanted to get a decent night shot from this street, so I setup my cam on a tripod and waited for passing cars. I was lucky enough that one of the first cars was a taxi with illuminated advertising stuff on top of the roof. This light created the white upper light trail which makes the course of the road visible.

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#050 - 21 April 2013

The second shot from my Saturday's oily water session.

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#041 - 12 April 2013

Sometimes a shot isn't as it was intended to be from the photographer, but nevertheless the result turns out to be satisfying. This is one of this shots, I actually did not intended to get this pigeon only half on the image, but at least the color and light is as I hoped to get it. And on the end this is maybe even a nicer result as having the whole bird on the image.

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#028 - 23 March 2013
Flotsam on the beach in Denmark.

DOF / blur as shot, but the image got an little treatment to highlight the contours of the pebbles in the background and the clouds.

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#007 - 02 March 2013
Zhujiajiao, an ancient water city not far from the city center of Shanghai. Always worth a visit, especially then it is raining! Rain has definitive some advantages in my opinion: firstly, more interesting images as with bright sunshine, secondly (and the bigger advantage) not so many people around!

Have a nice weekend!

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#054 - 25 April 2013

Lakeview

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#036 - 31 March 2013

Sunset on the Dianshan Lake.

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#060a - 02 May 2013

宏村 / Hongcun
Hongcun village is located in Anhui Province, P.R. China. It is is UNESCO World Heritage since the year 2000 and famous and faved by many painters in China.

#033 - 28 March 2013

First! The first blossom of this spring

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#012 - 07 March 2013
Just made it for the daily, almost midnight here ;)
I made that shot tonight after dinner. A bit bored from all the usually dominating colors (car lights red / white / yellow) I gave it a try with a B&W night shot tonight.

The image shows the "Pearl Tower" in Lujiazui, Shanghai, China. One of the landmarks in Shanghai and present on almost all images made from the new financial district. Before the highest building in Shanghai it seems to become smaller and smaller, more and more skyscrapers just around that old tower are higher now.

Thanks for all your comments on my SF High-rise image yesterday!!!

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#006 - 01 March 2013
An American White Pelican, spotted by having a rest at the Firehole River, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park.

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#021 - 16 March 2013
Formula 1 season 2013 is starting this weekend! My F1 season opener is a shot I took during the F1 Grand Prix in Shanghai ast year. Lewis Hamilton, 2012 driver for McLaren, approaching turn 14 of the Shanghai International Circuit.

The first race will be held in Melbourne, Australia. Today's qualifying session was affected by heavy rain, finally qualifying could not be finished and will be continued tomorrow morning before the race.

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#071 - 16 May 2013

Take cover! Raining all day long today....

#038 - 09 April 2013

Aliens!

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