This week's challenge theme at the GPlus 52 Weeks challenge was "Up". I had a couple of ideas and also another image in place (which I will post later though). But then, today, I went downtown. One of the special features of Leipzig are its different shopping arcades/ passage ways, like the very famous Maedler Passage I featured a while ago or the ( Read more... )

The Maedler Passage is one of the most famous shopping passage ways in my hometown. In its current form, it has its origins in the early 20th century and it is home to the famous "Auerbach's Cellar", which goes back to the 16th century and makes its important literary appearance in Goethe's Faust. What fascinates me when walking through it is its ( Read more... )

Ok, so let's turn the power back on on Project Green. I took a short break during the Christmas break with photography. Of course, I could have cheated, but I did not want to post any old stuff found in the archives. So let's get back to the project, turn the energy back on. And how to do that? Well, how about this shot of a power button glowing ( Read more... )

Something I created this afternoon. For more of the recent posts, check out the blog: Mellimage Blog

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A few weeks ago I posted two entries for Nicole S. Youngs, book give away - one for her blog theme "sweet" and one for the Google+ theme "spicy". Today I learned that my entry for her blog give away (Mascarpone Cream with Strawberries) won. So I am looking forward to reading Nicole's book "Food Photography: from Snapshots to great shots".


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This is my entry for Nicole S. Young's book giveaway.
As you may know, Nicole is a great food photographer who just published
her book "Food photography: From Snapshots to great shots". This entry
is for the theme "sweet". I hereby present you with my favorite desert:
Mascarpone Cream with strawberries.

I found this recipe earlier this year and tried ( Read more... )

In 2006, in the last days of using my analogue cameras we went to Potsdam, an East German city near Berlin. Potsdam is probably most well known for the Sanssouci Summer Palace.
I remember that we spent a long time in the huge park of the summer
palance with all its temples, gardens and (something I remember most)
the Chinese Teahouse. If you are even ( Read more... )

Or how to create dramatic light - with a pen.

On Google+ Brian Matiash
announced a photo contest in which he wanted to know what our weekend
was going to be about. Well, it was a beautiful weekend, the weather was
beautiful.


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Traffic here on my blog is not that big. Yet I am happy to say that today the 20,000th visitor stopped by. My traffic counter tells me that he came through a facebook link to my entry about John Parr. Thanks for stopping by. :)

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Today's image was inspired by Photo Argus. I've been reading/ watching this website for its photography tips, the inspirational challenges and the awesome photography they display. This week they posted Photography Techniques for Landscape photography and one of the images posted there reminded me to this one, that I shot in 2003 at the Baltic ( Read more... )