Castle Kreuzenstein was built back in the 12th century. It is located on a hill 265 metres (869 ft) above sea level, surrounded by mixed forest. It is very popular for castle tours and highly frequented on weekends. This is the reason why I started early on Saturday forenoon, beginning with filming the fields of the area, coming nearer to the castle and getting it more and more in focus.
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The Swarovski Crystal Worlds bring a new surprise in every room you enter. Where have you ever seen a crystal jellyfish in this colorfulness? In most of the rooms it’s dark, so take lenses with 1.4 or 1.8 F-stops and a camera which is capable of shooting high iso in good quality. I took my Sony Zeiss 24mm F2 and Sony A7S. Tripods are not allowed, often the rooms are small, and a steady flow of visitors are going.
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My wife’s cousin Ewald, who is a Psychiatrist, showed us, Cleveland. We started at Lake Erie; next stop was Museum of Rock, next stop downtown, then a football arena, then the hospital where he works. Last but not least we ended in the “Hofbräuhaus.” Since his parents are Austrian and immigrated in the 50’s to Chicago, he also has some German roots. The beer was good, but the food, 😥 , I think the cook was never in the real Hofbräuhaus. 🙂
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As far as the eye can reach, mountains and mountaintops, the Alps. My place was a comfortable observation deck, where I could catch the rocky nature with my lenses. 🙂 Mountains and snow, an ever classical motive.
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This golf tournament was the playground for my new Samyang 14mm 2.8 AF lens. It brings excellent exposures of that vast meadow combined with the blue sky on the top. While my friend Christoph did the people shots, I did the landscape and the sceneries. I was lucky, my Sony A7R II with the wide angle lens was only a fraction of his two Canon DSLRs and Canon 70-200 lenses. 🙂
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As I got the newsletter from Trey Ratcliff, a great photographer from New Zealand, that he will hold a photo walk in Vienna, for me it was evident to join. The start was at the Ritz Carlton on the Stubenring, the tour bus was parking there, and about 100 people waited. The waiting area was on a bikeway, so occasionally a driver went through the crowd. Punctual at 5 pm the event started, it was a friendly atmosphere. First Trey and his friend Curtis were talking with the people face to face, then Trey took his camera and tripod, and the event began.
The walk went from sight to sight, Opera, Natural historical museum, Volksgarten, city hall. At every location, Trey climbed his mobile pedestal and gave some tips. I liked it.
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Often I use a walk to make a photo-walk with shooting some street scenes. Some weeks ago in Vienna, we had visited a Cafe and with friends and then used the mild climate for a walk in the nightly city. If you are on the move with friends which are no photographers, there’s no way to use a tripod. So I did my shots by hand, with concentration and with holding the breath, to minimize any camera shake. 🙂
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Since we had the Stockholm Card with free entry, we visited the Nordiska Museet, although it was not on our plan. The entrance hall and the next gallery rooms were impressive. The exhibitions are more for native Swedish. There was an Aurora walkthrough, but there, shooting photos was not possible, it was extremely dark, with some simulated, green aurora stripes coming up. Outside of the museum is a chill out area, where we got some cold drinks, Stockholm was hot.
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During shooting, I didn’t realize which effect the bright sun had on the mountaintops. It looks like painted in orange and yellow, with some fog in the foreground, which lies over the valleys. A nature spectacle of its own. Because of that shooting session, my wife and friends had to wait for a longer time, in a nearby cafe-restaurant. It was freezing that day, so for them, it was tea time. 🙂
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The never ending flow of people in the streets of Hong Kong brings you to street photography automatically. It’s a city with great buildings, neon signs, a high dynamic atmosphere. I had my Skechers with the memory foam sole on; the streets give your feet a run for their money 🙂
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