A day at the zoo

Three weeks ago I went to the zoo with my sis and youngest niece. We picked out the right day, because the weather during the rest of the week wasn't very good. But that Saturday it was perfect. Originally we planned to go a week earlier, but because of the bad weather forecast we cancelled.

I manage to take some okay shots. Not as much as I wanted, but with an eight year old you can't hang around at some place for a long time to wait for that perfect shot. They will get bored and they're right. Nothing more boring than observing an uncle walking from side to side to find the right spot and angle. We had a nice day and my niece really enjoyed it.

I planning to visit a zoo soon by myself, so I can take as much time as I please. But so far the weather has been pretty shitty. Hopefully we'll have a few nice days. I would like to do some more photography before autumn kicks in.

Anyway here are a few shots from our day at the zoo.

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Dir En Grey (ディル・アン・グレイ)

I didn't do much photography lately, unfortunately. From today I have a 12 day holiday, so hopefully I can finds some time to make a daytrip or something and take the camera with me.

Two weeks ago on Saturday August 7th we went to a concert of the Japanese band Dir En Grey (ディル・アン・グレイ). Started as a visual kei band, they are now considered as a metal band (more or less).

I manage to take some pictures with the compact camera. The quality is not that good, because of difficult light circumstances, but they will give you a bit of an impression.

For the videos I shot you can check my YouTube-channel.

Enjoy the pics.

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Black & White

I've been playing a bit with Silver Efex Pro (version 1) from Nik Software and made a Black and White version from a pic I took from my good photography friend A. The pic was taken during a photoshoot we did together in September 2009.

 

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Under construction

I'm playing around with my lay-out and template. The next few days and maybe weeks visitors might see differrent background images at the header and some other different page elements, colours etc...

Just a random picture

When I was sorting out some pictures I found this one, taken last year's summer somewhere in July at the garden of friends of us.

Technically it's not the best picture in the world, but just a simple sparrow can even look beautiful, don't you think?

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Soon the lay out of this weblog is about to change. It's going to be, more or less, like my other weblog BrownNoiseMusic, but of course with a different background.

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If you wish to make a donation you can follow one of the URL's below. Thanks!

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