Another one from my scraggly little garden.

I got this yesterday. We have been getting beautiful skies here over the past few days but yesterdays’s was the best. Unfortunately, by the time I reached home and set up the camera in my friend’s balcony I missed the best part and only managed to get this.

I did not expect the scraggly and overgrown garden in front of my house to have anything worth photographing. But I was pleasantly surprised when on Sunday I tried out my newly acquired tripod in it. There were quite a lot of very small but beautiful flowers worth photographing. This is one of them. But for the very strong wind which made it next to impossible to do macro work I’d have got many more. I’m not very happy with this but didn’t get time to process any of the other ‘better’ photos so am putting this one up instead.

This is the third and final photo in the contrail series. It is also my favorite among the three.

The is the second photo in the contrail series. Btw I forgot to mention that all three photos are from the same place, Konigswinter.

In other news, I finally put together a rough portfolio of my favorite photos. It is just a stop gap thing until I develop something more to my liking so it is a little rough around the edges! You can find the link at the top of the main page of the photoblog.

Starting with today I’ll be posting three photos over the next three days centered around the broad theme of contrails. As you can probably tell, if you are a regular visitor here, I love these trails made by planes in the sky. In all three I’ve played around with the white balance so what you see is not exactly what I got. Having said that I still like how they have turned out although today’s photo is probably the one I least prefer among the three!

This was shot a few minutes after yesterday’s shot. I thought this would look good as a toned b/w although still not sure if the tone works or not.

Since I’m happy with one of my photos after quite a while I’m putting this up earlier than usual!

This has been sitting idle for a long time in my photos to be posted here. But finally here it is! I have no idea what the graffiti writer meant by this cryptic message and that is why it caught my eye. Perhaps you have better ideas as to what it means?

I had gone for a short walk the other day across a bridge over the Rhine to capture some very interesting cloud forms. Here is one of them.