Category / Astro / creative / Photo Adventures / Travelling
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Obersaxen – looking for the perfect black sky
Last adventure took us to Obersaxen, Graubünden. The idea was to spend a night in the Alpine hut and enjoy the Perseid's Meteor Shower. Obersaxen is situated in a valley and basing on Light Pollution Map, it is one of the very few places in Switzerland where light pollution is minimal. As always, I took… -
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Como – Italian Adventure
In the middle of June, together with friends, we went for a weekend to Italy. Silvia, my italian lab mate, organized a wonderful trip to Como and Cantu. What should I write more? Perfect weather, delicious food and Como lake. Weather was ideal for sunbathing but unfortunately not so great for photos - very hard… -
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Walensee and Weesen hike
Few weeks ago we wanted to go somewhere for a hike but possibly close to lake. Because Zurich lake is almost fully urbanised and there are very few real hiking routs we chose to go to the next bigger lake - Walensee. It was already our third hike in the Walensee area but this time… -
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Tiny Planet – short guide
As I have promised last time, today I would like to show you how to create a Tiny Planet – like picture. You will need basically two things: panorama picture and Adobe Photoshop. The best panorama, from my experience, is the one based on the 360°. The reason is quite simple – in this kind…
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Our photo takes 6th place in Swiss-wide Photo Competition!
Panel prepared by my group (Me, Paola, Hinnerk, Adrian and Olaf) rank at the 6th position in the Photo Munsingen Competition (out of 57 panels). Photo Munsingen is a yearly Photo Workshop / Competition, where all Swiss Photo clubs can send only one thematic panel prepared by 4 or 5 club members. This year's topic was… -
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Ruetihof trip – year after Dandelion
Two weeks ago I finally had some time to play with the camera, IR filter and new Macro lens Nikkor 105 mm f/2.8D MICRO. I took my equipment, tripod with new ball head and just hoped for something interesting to find. What I noticed is that my HOYA Infrared filter 720 nm behaves much better…
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