This was shot at the same time as those photos of skaters I had put up recently. The structure is the elaborate roof over Cologne’s main railway station. Try as I might I just could not compose this shot without that irritating pole at the right coming into the frame.

I wonder if any of you can guess what these shadows represent. Go ahead surprise me with your wildest guesses…or, is it too obvious? On a technical note, I thought of cropping the lower quarter of the image to remove the empty space and thereby tighten the image but thought against it in the end.

This is my lab colleague up to his usual clowning with me! Inspite of horribly overexposing a part of his left ear and the wall behind him I put this up as it is the first decent pic from any of my newly bought Minolta prime lenses. This was taken by the 50mm/f1.7. It is so sharp and fast! I’m beginning to love the quality prime lenses give even though they are not as convenient as zooms. Once the other two primes I’ve bought are delivered I’ll be in business!

Haven’t been posting regularly out of pure lazyness! This might be the last in the recent series of ‘people potraits’, for now. You can see how my Sigma zoom lens goes soft at this focal length when you look at the people in the background. And there is some color fringing too. But forget all that and concentrate on the lovely moment in the foreground. This is what makes photography such fun! (The image is cropped a bit on the right from the original).

I wish I remember what she was staring at so intensely. I also wish I had caught her in much better light.

The guy entering the frame from the left happened suddenly and was not in the composition I was framing but I think by blocking out a long field of view on the left he lends a greater focus on the guy to the right.

The caption for the photo reflects the fact that the guy on the right (with skulls on his jacket) is also a skater and had done the same thing the skater in the background is doing a few minutes before I took this shot.

Any day, if you go behind the Cologne Dom you will find at least twenty of these skate-boarding enthusiasts honing as well as displaying their skills for greedy photographers like yours truly!

These two were trying to take a nice afternoon nap and the guy with the open eye was a little wary of this short guy peering through a black thing pointed at him and disturbing his pleasant nap!

Not spot on but I like the sense of dynamic motion (is that an oxymoron?) in this picture.

I finally made my way to a neighborhood park today. So expect to see some park photos over the next few days. Unfortunately, I shot everything with the ISO set on 1600 (didn’t realize that until I got home) so the noise levels, in what otherwise should have been clean images, are rather high. Oh well mistakes do happen!