Category Archives: nature
Squirrels!
This one is for the kids mostly, although there is one photo here that I especially like: The squirrel with the old woman’s hand. She was a real deranged hermit :-), the squirrels had some strange affinity towards her. Kulida will kindly forgive that there are only two squirrels, yet several photos. :-P All shot in St. James park.
God Must be a Hippie
This post is long overdue, because I just couldn’t get myself to process the photos. As for the post-processing, I know these look unreal. But that’s not my fault! There is no HDR applied, and color is not edited at all! Seriously, I have deliberately left all the Hue, Saturation, Luminosity, Vibrance, and other similar sliders alone. The colors are exactly as shot, and much less crazy than they were in reality. On the second thought, perhaps I should have made them more vibrant. :-)
Walrus on the Lawn
Although not technically a member of the odobenidae, I believe that this speciman has much in common with the marine mammal. Thus, although Janka likes to call him Blesk (Flash), I usually call him Mrož (Walrus). There’s just something about his personality and phonic demonstration that makes me sure he should have been born somewhere in the Arctics with giant tusks. :-D
Stormshooting
Just a few snapshots from my balcony one fine day…
More beasties from Vienna
Quite a few weeks ago we spent a lovely Sunday in Vienna with the kids, and one of the main Sehenswürdigkeiten on the program was Haus des Meeres, an equivalent of the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, mentioned in a post few months ago. These photos are slightly worse than the ones from over there, as the light conditions were much, much less photography-friendly. Still, I was not as idiotic as some people who were using direct flash to photograph bats. At that moment I felt slightly sorry for not bringing my external flash, as I really felt like discharging a formidable blast at 100 % of power right into their Ungesicht.
