I shot this through a train window yesterday.

Even though I’ve quite a few recent photos sitting on my hard drive I’ve been unable to choose one from them to post today. Instead, here is something from my archives. I almost trashed this but after some cropping and PP it seems worth posting.

I’m still trying to learn the art of pre-visualizing a shot before I press the shutter. I’ve miles to go before I can do that properly but this photo is one example of using that technique. I’m happy that it turned out exactly as I had wanted it to in the first place.

I’m feeling quite tired so I’ll keep it short. This is another photo from Konigswinter. Some might find the photo dark but I was forced to increase the contrast and decrease some brightness to make the third contrail stand out better.

I didn’t get sufficient time to process another photo from my visit to Konigswinter so here is something from a while back instead. This is the third one in my on and off series on flora in the grip of winter’s sleep and waiting for spring to arrive.

Here is another photo from the same place as yesterday. Cloned out some very distracting shrubs from the bottom. I noticed after coming home that they were present in almost all the photos I shot from this point! For some reason I got a lot of noise in the shadows in this photo even though it was shot at ISO 100. I’ve seen this happen sometimes so am trying to see if there is a pattern to their occurence. Has this happened to any of you? Any obvious reasons I’m missing? Please email me (arthedains at gmail dot com) and let me know.

Although I went out of Cologne today to a nearby town on a photographic trip, I couldn’t decide on a photo to post from that trip. So here is something old instead. I hope you can guess why I named the photo thus! I’m quite happy with the way this photo has turned out. Initially, I had thought of posting this in color but the monochrome version which resulted after PP won hands down in the end!

I know this is a bit blurred and unsharp (it was shot handheld in very low light) but I like his natural smile.

I’m not completely satisfied with the PP on this. Some essential thing is missing. But I don’t feel like working with it for too long so I post the photo as it is now. Hope you will like it better.

I’ve been posting at random over the past few days, something new and something old. This is something slightly old. There was something about the way the woman was standing and observing the scene that made me reach for my camera and capture this.