House for forest fairies

Look what we’ve found yesterday in the woods! Simply fantastic! It’s just perfect how these structures are holding together.

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Hall in Tirol – Sacred Heart Convent – Damenstift

The Sacred Heart Convent is located in the southeast part of the old town of Hall in Tirol, at Stiftplatz.  Originally here stood the impressive castle Sparberegg, that was used as royal mint tower… Read More →

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Bye Bye Winter

This is part of a hand written text in the local dialect ,  than hangs inside of the church. “…On the hill outside it’s just fine, when you sit on a bank and the… Read More →

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Червено омайниче – Geum coccineum

In my language  this flower is called “the little charmer” and grows in humid places in the mountains between 900 and 2300 m of altitude. Its roots are used as natural medicine. The… Read More →

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Maifest – Local festivals and traditions

On the first of may there is a beautiful festival in Austria, called the Maifest or May Day. The fest is a centuries old tradition: a pine tree is erected in the center… Read More →

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First photo shooting – big success !!!

A friend of mine called yesterday that she needed some photos to apply for a position. And as I am making good photos ,  she said , it would be great if we… Read More →

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Find where your photos have gone thanks to google image search

Five Simple Tips On How To Find Your Images Online I just tried today Google Images search for an image of mine and Bingo!  It returned quite alot of results. I uploaded a… Read More →

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Hall in Tirol – the main square – part II

Hall in Tirol The name of Hall originates from “hal” which was the old German word for salt. The town is situated at 574 m above sea level and covers an area of… Read More →

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In the days of film

Before digital photography existed, I used to take photos on film. In those days of film: one film roll could have 24 or 36 exposures/ photos Films had different ISO’s usually from 100… Read More →

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Pisa , Tuscany

No driving and parking around Piazza dei Miracoli. The first thing I remember was, that according to the navi the leaning tower was ahead of us, at about walking distance. So we started… Read More →

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Shutterstock’s Global Design Trends 2013 – Infographic

Today shutterstock posted its Infographic on the trends for 2013. Very interesting. And here you can read how it all started The Founder Of Shutterstock Took 100,000 Photos To Get His Company Off… Read More →

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The Herz – Jesu church, Innsbruck

Impressions from the Heart of Jesus ( Herz-Jesu) Church I really love this church. Its frescoes are unusual for Austria and remind me the Orthodox Churches in Bulgaria. I was thinking of posting… Read More →

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For little dying angels

This is not an easy subject.Here are two links to photographers with big hearts. Photographers that have the courage to go to hospitals or homes upon demand and capture the last moments of… Read More →

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Miniaturize

You’ve probably seen these miniaturized photos of towns , people and also weddings. They are called tilt-shift effect and were originally thought as special lenses for architectural photography. But you can also achieve the effect… Read More →

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2012 in review

Nice, this annual report from WordPress Note to self – I could blog more often, or schedule posts. Whenever time allows it. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for… Read More →

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I miss summer

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A little bit better every time

A couple of nights ago, I was awake at 4 am and saw all the stars twinkling in the sky. I thought “Oh, a photo”. Ended up spending an hour taking pictures with… Read More →

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Thank you, shutterstock

Even if being a stock photographer is not my goal, I like to see what is happening with my few photos that have been approved for sale. Even more , I appreciate the… Read More →

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Sunset of a rainy day

We have a very strong valley wind here – the Föhn. It started this morning and brought rain that kept on for the rest of the day. I went in a hurry to… Read More →

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