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Ain’t no lions or tigers ain’t no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Everybody is as happy as a man can be
Climb aboard little wog sail away with me

 

Sail away sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

“Sail Away”  © song by Randy Newman

 

On the photo it’s the Chicago Pier with Lake Michigan, Charleston Bay is 1000 miles away. However, except for the high parking fees, 🙂 Chicago pier is a great place to take photos. On one direction great Lake Michigan with sinking sun. On the opposite side the skyline of the city. And the pier itself. If you want to take the City-River tour, it also starts there, highly recommended.

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/2.2
• Shutter speed: 1/400s
• Focal length: 35mm
• ISO: 100

The flight from San Francisco to Vienna was 2 hours late. So I missed the connecting flight in London. 😐 The next plane I got was in ten hours. I decided to take the airport express to Paddington and walk around. In my business bag, I had my Leica D-Lux 5. Looking at Google Maps, I saw that Little Venice is very near to the railway station. I started an exploring trip and got great views of that unknown part of London.

Post processed with: Photomatix, Photoshop 

• Camera: D-LUX 5
• Aperture: ƒ/5
• Shutter speed: 1/400s
• Focal length: 7.5mm
• ISO: 100

This bathing resort in Pörtschach am Wörther See has it all. Green meadows for the deck chairs, drinking water quality of the lake, wooden jetties, slides for the young and young at heart, 🙂 a cafe with cold wheat beer. And in the early evening the right place for a photo session.

Post processed with: Aurora 2018, Photoshop

Venice, one of a kind in the world. In some parts of the city, each building, street, lantern, and canal are worth to stop, to look, to explore, to take photos. I entered Basilica di San Marco and been blown away, a never-ending, amazing, holy, impression art gallery. One of the wonders of the world !! On the upper floor, I saw those copper-brass-horses, built in lifesize.  😎

Post processed with: Aurora 2018, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Shutter speed: 1/20s
• Focal length: 15mm
• ISO: 6400

In Swarovski Crystal Worlds I was walking in that completely dark room, where only that illuminated artwork was hanging on the wall. I caught it with my Sony A7S, LA-EA4 adapter and Sony Zeiss 24mm F2 A-mount lens, which is one of the few cameras/setups, which can shoot this without a tripod in low light.  🙂

Post processed with: Luminar, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/3.5
• Shutter speed: 1/60s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 3200

The shopping centers in Istanbul can compete with every shopping center in the Western world, and will surpass most of them. New modern architecture and design, all kind of fashion labels and food courts, those centers are real entertainment palaces. In a city with a population of nearly 15 million, it has to serve many cultures and population strata. I can recommend visiting this city to everyone.

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/2.2
• Shutter speed: 1/5000s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 4000

Carinthia with the lovely Wörther See and the little town Velden, the perfect summer location for spending some days and relax. The mild weather in the evening combined with the soft lightening of the buildings as here in the photo the Gamonaplatz, bring you sweet vacations. The beaches of the Wörther See (Wörther Lake) consist of smooth, green grass; the water has drinking water quality. Fish and ducks are swimming there, and for some fun, you can rent a motor boat with tires, with which you get towed high speed over the water. You have to fight to stay within the tire and need all your hand grip power. If it happens that you get thrown into the water, it can burn a bit, like a belly-flop.  🙂

Post processed with: Color Efex Pro, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Shutter speed: 6s
• Focal length: 14mm
• ISO: 100

A wild river, snowy trees, high mountains – ideal for a drone flight. In Ischgl, Tyrol I found all these ingredients at one place and was eager after breakfast to move to that location and start filming. I verified that the SD cards and batteries were in the bag. At the site, I placed the iPhone of my wife onto the Zhiyun Smooth II gimbal. I can thoroughly recommend that gimbal, it holds the phone steady, and it is easy to handle. 🙂 Then filming started, and I took my DJI Phantom 4 Pro out of the box.

Have a look at the video with the starting procedure:

The flying experience:

The landing, I had to be very careful, “Return to home” function didn’t work, because of the high trees, I did the process manually:

Videos processed with Apple iMovie

On my way home from the birthday party of my brother, I spotted this cool sky. I decided to make a short iPhone photography session with sky and vines and some walking around. In the evening when I continued going home, this sky turned into pink and orange, and again I took my iPhone for some shots. 🙂

Post processed with: Luminar, Photoshop

• Camera: iPhone 6 Plus
• Aperture: ƒ/2.2
• Shutter speed: 1/5700s
• Focal length: 4.15mm
• ISO: 32

There are many similarities between the Wachau and the Tuscany. One concise resemblance are the terraces for the vines which are built from natural stone, often by hand, which is very hard work, because it’s impossible to place construction machines there. Beside the wine, the Wachau is also renown for apricots.

Post Processed with: Photoshop

• Camera: D-LUX 5
• Aperture: ƒ/8
• Shutter speed: 1/60s
• Focal length: 10.7mm
• ISO: 100