Unwanted insight

The Canon 50mm 1.8 is an excellent lens. Cheap, light, fast, very good image quality. But, and this is important, do not drive over it, or else you will get some unwanted insight into the inner workings of said lens:

Post - apocalyptic swans

From my photo archives. Playing with Vignette on the train, trying out a few filters. Too kitschy?

Golden 10 minutes

Photographers talk about the "golden hour", the first hour after dawn, and the last hour before sunset. In this light, nearly any subject will look good - and the closer to sunrise/sunset you are, the better:

Apartment blocks in Lausanne, 10 minutes before sunset. 

I took the photo with my Nexus S, and added some vignetting with the appropriately named app "Vignette".

Beautiful Photovoltaics

Sunset over photovoltaics, in Lausanne, pont chauderon

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Motivational Poster

F. and I are both big fans of Cannibal: The Musical,  so I made her a motivational poster the other day, to get her through a long day of meetings.

 

On a completely related note, the camera of the Nexus S is fabulous.

A new dawn

Or at least one of the first I saw in 2011 in Lausanne.

Aiming for bi-weekly posts this year. Don't hold your breath.

A woman taking a photo of her son with her cell phone, in Lausanne.

Mekong

No time to properly blog, have this photo from the Mekong-delta instead.

Batman's Vet

To the Bat-Vet, Robin!

Street cleaning

à la New York

Mademoiselle Liberté

as seen from Brooklyn Bridge.

Brooklyn Bridge, sunset

Jedi

Two Jedi, fighting in Central Park, New York City.

Die, Sith-spawn!

That is all.

Spiral

Staircase in l'Arc de Triomphe, Paris

iphone: photo iv/vii

see parts i, ii and iii
Some photos from the wedding will be coming soon, probably this weekend.

Hello?

and

In a corner

Flying back to Geneva

blogging from Vienna airport. (I feel so connected!)

The wedding? As delicious as the cake. Mmmh, cake.

Cake. In tiers. Steps to a sugary high, if you so will.

Bollocks to this...

... I am off to Vienna, for a wedding.

Parliament, Vienna

iphone: photo iii/vii

See also: part i and ii

Demon cat

Rue du Jura

iphone: photo ii/vii

See part i here.

M1

EPFL

iphone: photo

The camera of the iphone is nothing to write home about. Still, they are some that say it is the best camera ever, since it's one you always have with you. Chase Jarvis even published a book with nothing but iPhone photos:

Furthermore, a limited camera can make you a better photographer: Just snapping a photo with the iPhone will result in a crappy picture: small dynamic range, noise, ugh. But you can work with those limitations to  make excellent photos - if your name happens to be Chase Jarvis, I guess. Nevertheless, I tried to use my iPhone camera a bit, and will present two of those pictures per day, seven days in a row. Here are the first two: Snapped with the iPhone, and then edited on the iPhone with the (free!) Format126 app.

Creepy sister.

Cone