A Walk in Late October

[Peter S.]

Two weeks ago I've been out in the Bavarian Alps. On a saturday
morning wheather was fine, and I went out to a small valley where
in spring a lot of melting water comes down. I knew the location,
and so I shurely had my Gitzo and a pack of Rokkor glass with me -
albeit I only used 50, 35 and 90mm. My blue XD-7 was loaded with a
fresh roll of Fuji Velvia 50.

This was the highest point I came to (I didn't have more than an
hour time :-( , since the reason of the voyage wasn't a phototour).

I came up to this point:


Taken with my Tokina AT-X 2.5/90 Macro - one of my best lenses!

where I turned around and only stopped at some places I spotted
on my way up. First of all I never had the opportunity to photograph
such beautifully falling water (I am a photo novice):


Taken with a MC Rokkor-PG 1.4/50, my reliable workhorse

On the second one, I spend a few minutes to get some disturbing
broken branches out of the picture:




MD W.Rokkor 1.8/35

This is how my way back to the valley looked like:


MD W.Rokkor 1.8/35

Finally I spotted a little dam, apparently used to feed the water
to different taps, where the power of the water could be used:





I used my tripod for all pictures, and I allways had a polarizer
on the lens. I polished all of the pictures a bit in PS after having
them scanned. I got the impression I did a wee bit underexpose
the original shots. I made than lighter using curves adjustment
rather than using the Brightness/Contrast control, which doesn't
please my eyes.

It was a very pleasing walk.

Best regards & Thanks for looking (feedback highly appretiated)
Peter

[Peter S.]

Dear Ron,

no it was just fun - no aching legs or any other discomfort :-).
There is in fact a series on a walk taken on the Lake of Constance,
where I live, which showed brilliant, vibrating colors of yellow, red
and green leafes. That will be the next series.

Best regards
Peter

PS: is there any netiquette, that distincts permissible usage from
unwanted flooding of the messageboard? The next photos are
ready for posting...

[John Parry]

Flooding of the message board?? Post away Peter - we especially welcome photo posts!

Regards - John

ps - If you are like most of the people on here, you clear away your backlog and then post as the pictures get processed.

[John Parry]

Sorry, I was answering your question without even responding to your topic. Never sure about Velvia being used for landscapes. There's a slightly violet tinge to some of the blues in these.

Having said that, personally, I like number four because it it gives a little life to the water. Well done for capturing the angle of the light in number one. And the last two are very nice indeed. Take it the 'little dam' was throwing off another stream to the left?

Regards - John

[GeneW]

Peter, what a nice walk! You have some beautiful scenery to shoot. Nice work!

Gene

[Peter S.]

Dear Ron,

sorry to hear, You got problems to walk. That must really be sad.
But I am in my early forties - and usually the legs should work
fine then. (I also don't suffer from too much weight, I still use
the clothes I got during my services for gardening work, and these
days are more than 20 years away now). But everybody got his own
bag of troubles to carry. I were being bitten by a tick, fell ill, did
not die, but got a partial paresis of my right shoulder. I am a bit
shaky therefore, and better take my tripod for a good exposure.

Best regards
Peter

PS: tomorrow I'll post some of my autumnal trees photos done
with my blue XD-7, which I like very much.